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News Roundup and Notes: March 27, 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. YEMEN Saudi Arabia-led coalition…
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Ninth Circuit Grants En Banc Rehearing in Posse Comitatus / Unlawful Surveillance Case

Back in September, I wrote about the Ninth Circuit’s fascinating decision in United States v. Dreyer, which applied the exclusionary rule to suppress evidence obtained…
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The Right Way to Share Information and Improve Cybersecurity

This year is turning out to be a banner one for flawed proposals that would allow businesses to share information about Americans’ online activity with the Department of Homeland…
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News Roundup and Notes: March 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. YEMEN Saudi Arabia has launched…
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Surveying Proportionality: Whither the Reasonable Commander?

At least two surveys gathering information about “public perceptions” of proportionality and collateral damage are making their way around the international arena by way of…
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Doe v. Cisco: The Legal Issues

Part 1 of this post introduced a set of cases against Cisco Systems, which has been sued for being complicit in the design and implementation of China’s Golden Shield surveillance…
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News Roundup and Notes: March 25, 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. YEMEN President Abd-Rabbu…
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Canadian Bombs Over Syria and a Reader’s Guide to the Legality of Airstrikes Against ISIL

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper is introducing a motion to Parliament today (video here) that would extend Canada’s military mission against the Islamic State for another…
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Perfidy, ambush, snipers, and the COLE bombing (al Nashiri) case

Thanks to Rogier Bartels and Kevin Heller for their fascinating debate here and at Opinio Juris on whether the alleged Israeli/U.S. car-bomb operation operation that killed Hezbollah’s…
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China’s Golden Shield—Is Cisco Systems Complicit?

This is Part I of a series on a case pending in the Northern District of California against Cisco Systems involving the company’s provision of technology to help construct,…
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No, Disguising Military Equipment As Civilian Objects to Help Kill Isn’t Perfidy

I read with great interest my friend Rogier Bartels’ long post arguing that it is perfidious to use a bomb planted in a civilian car to kill an enemy soldier. As Rogier notes,…
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News Roundup and Notes: March 24, 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. YEMEN Yemen’s foreign…
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