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Armed Drones and the Influence of Big Business on Police Surveillance Technology

On Wednesday, the Daily Beast reported that the North Dakota state legislature recently passed a bill allowing law enforcement drones to carry less-than-lethal weapons. In theory,…
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Beyond the APA: The Role of Psychology Boards and State Courts in Propping up Torture

The image of torture in US popular culture is an intimate one: a government agent and a suspect in a dark cell, usually alone. But the reality of our state-sanctioned torture program…
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Female Rangers: Historic Change or Lost Opportunity?

Today, two Army officers will be the first women to graduate from Ranger school. This is a groundbreaking milestone many predict is cracking the “brass ceiling”, but what does…
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It’s Time for a Civilian Protection Strategy in Iraq

Editors’ note: This piece is adapted from a longer article by the author originally published in the International Journal of Stability & Development. The military…
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The DOD Law of War Manual and Command Responsibility: Is it Time for a “Necessary and Reasonable” Change to the UCMJ?

Editor’s Note: This post is the latest in Just Security’s “mini forum” on the new Defense Department Law of War Manual. This series includes posts from Sean Watts, Eric…
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A Readers’ Guide to our Mini-Forum on DOD’s new Law of War Manual

As you’ve probably noticed this summer, we’ve been hosting a mini-forum on the Defense Department’s Law of War Manual that was published earlier this summer. As Marty Lederman pointed…
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The APA’s Watershed Move to Ban Psychologists’ Complicity in Torture

As Marty Lederman wrote about here, the APA Council of Representatives made waves on Friday by approving, with a near-unanimous vote, a resolution that (1) bans psychologists…
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A Missed Opportunity: DOD’s Law of War Manual & Applying Law as a Matter of Policy

Editor’s Note: This post is the latest in Just Security’s “mini forum” on the new Defense Department Law of War Manual. This series includes posts from Sean Watts,…
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Drones and Contractor Mission Creep

I have written previously about the transparency, oversight, and accountability issues that outsourcing aspects of the U.S. drone program can pose – issues that often get lost…
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The DOD Law of War Manual Returns Hollow Point Bullets to Armed Conflict

Editor’s Note: Just Security is holding a “mini forum” on the new Defense Department Law of War Manual. This series includes posts from Sean Watts, Eric Jensen, Adil Ahmad…
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The Reason Why the UK Lost the Serdar Mohammed Case

The United Kingdom Court of Appeal handed down its judgment in Serdar Mohammed v. Ministry of Defense last Thursday. The decision, which assessed the lawfulness of the 110-day…
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French Surveillance Law Compared to US Surveillance Law

Last Thursday, France’s constitutional court—le Conseil constitutionnel—issued a ruling upholding most of that country’s controversial new surveillance law, enacted in…
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