Recent Articles
Darkness?
In the wake of our recent, terrific panel on the “Going Dark?” debate, today the New York Times brings what appears to be big news from the executive branch: The…
Recap of Recent Posts at Just Security (October 3–9)
I. Kunduz Hospital Bombing Jonathan Horowitz, Guest Post: Was the Kunduz Strike a War Crime? (Monday, October 5) John Reed, Precision Weapons, Mistakes, and the Need for Transparency (Monday,…
Toward a History of Clean and Endless War
It is idle — but interesting — to speculate on what future historians will say about our own time. True: We can never know, and would probably find ourselves shocked by what…
News Roundup and Notes: October 9, 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 ISIS has…
More Bergdahl Strangeness: ACCA Dismisses Public Access Mandamus Petition
As a follow up to my post this morning about the brewing fight over public access to various documents submitted as part of the Article 32 hearing in the Bowe Bergdahl case, the…
Public Access to Military Trials: The Increasingly Strange Case of Sergeant Bergdahl
I still don’t know what to make of the government’s case against Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl (of Taliban detainee transfer fame) for charges of desertion and misbehavior before…
News Roundup and Notes: October 8, 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 Syria’s…
The Special Rapporteur on Torture’s Report on Extraterritoriality Speaks to Migrant Crisis
The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture, Juan E. Méndez, has issued a new expert’s report (his 17th)—this one on extraterritoriality. (JustSecurity’s extensive…
Adding Some Nuance on the European Court’s Safe Harbor Decision
Yesterday, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) issued a decision about European data protection laws as they relate to data transfers to the US. While there have been a number…
News Roundup and Notes: October 7, 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 Russia has…
Amid Calls for UN Investigation Into Kunduz Strike, US Senator Suggests that the UN Does Not Investigate Taliban Abuses. He’s Wrong.
Today, following calls for an independent inquiry into the US airstrike on the MSF hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) – during a Senate Armed Services…
New California Human Rights Legislation
Amidst all the coverage of California’s new assisted suicide law, it may have been missed that Governor of California Jerry Brown signed important human rights legislation into…