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Honor, Morality, and the DOD Law of War Manual
As faithful readers of Just Security’s “mini forum” on the new DOD Law of War Manual may recall, Prof. Adil Haque and I sparred last summer over several of the manual’s…
Kunduz Update
The Afghan government is doubling down on its strong insinuations that a Médecins Sans Frontières hospital that US and Afghan forces bombed in Kunduz on October 3 was a legitimate…
News Roundup and Notes: October 26, 2015
Before the start of business, Just Security provides a curated summary of up-to-the-minute developments at home and abroad. Here’s today’s news. IRAQ and SYRIA An alliance…
Recap of Recent Posts at Just Security (October 17–23)
I. Classified Information & Transparency Jameel Jaffer, Drone Disclosures, Official and Not (Monday, October 19) Marty Lederman, Bart Gellman at Purdue: Is It Lawful to…
After the NDAA Veto: Now What?
This time, he’s serious. After all these years of unexecuted veto threats, on October 22, 2015, President Obama finally vetoed the $612 billion National Defense and Authorization…
News Roundup and Notes: October 23, 2015
IRAQ and SYRIA A US service member was killed during a joint mission by US special forces and Kurdish fighters yesterday while rescuing captives of the Islamic State in Iraq, the…
[corrected] GTMO provisions are one of three reasons for the President’s NDAA veto today
Here’s the pertinent part of the veto statement: I am returning herewith without my approval H.R. 1735, the “National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016.”…
Safe Harbor and Reforming Section 702
Having only belatedly caught up on the European Court of Justice’s Safe Harbor decision, I wanted to weigh in on the excellent discussion between Tim Edgar and Peter Margulies…
Human Shields: The Weapon of the Strong
In a series of interventions, Adil Ahmad Haque and Charlie Dunlap have debated the Defense Department Law of War Manual’s position on human shields (here, here, and here). Claiming…
News Roundup and Notes: October 22, 2015
Before the start of business, Just Security provides a curated summary of up-to-the-minute developments at home and abroad. Here’s today’s news. IRAQ and SYRIA Secretary…
The World Doesn’t Need a “Snowden Treaty”
How to best protect privacy in cyberspace is a very difficult question. So is what role the law (domestic and international) should play in ensuring a proper balance between privacy…
Bart Gellman at Purdue: Is it lawful to discuss and display the Snowden documents in universities?
Four weeks ago, Bart Gellman of the Century Foundation delivered a keynote address at Purdue University’s “Dawn or Doom?” colloquium. His topic was “The…