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The Legality of Killing Osama bin Laden
On Sunday, May 1st, an elite unit of U.S. Navy SEALs carried out a raid on a fortified home in Abottabad, Pakistan, during which Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was killed by two American bullets.
Beyond Guantanamo: Two Constitutional Objections to Nonmilitary Preventive Detention
Now that indefinite, unreviewable military detention at Guantanamo is no longer an option, policymakers will have to decide whether and how to detain suspected terrorists.
Osama bin Laden Dead After Firefight with U.S. Forces
President Obama announced that in an operation involving U.S. Navy SEALs, Osama bin Laden has been killed and his body recovered by U.S. forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan. The President's remarks can be read here. For continuing updates on the U.S. operation and its...
ICJ Upholds Russian Preliminary Objections in Georgia Dispute
By Brian Itami -- On April 1, 2010, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) upheld Russian preliminary objections in its dispute with Georgia over the application of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD) with...
Rule of Law in Iraq and Afghanistan?
Brig. Gen. Martins delivered these remarks as part of the Dean’s Distinguished Lecture Series at Harvard Law School on April 18, 2011, upon receiving the Harvard Law School Medal of Freedom. By Mark Martins*-- Click here to read the full text as a PDF Click here to...
The Developing Legal Framework for Defensive and Offensive Cyber Operations
By Steven G. Bradbury -- Click here to read the full text of the Keynote Address Steven G. Bradbury provides a legal analysis of U.S. defensive and offensive cyber operations in his keynote address for the 2011 National Security Journal Symposium, “Cybersecurity: Law,...
The Cost of “Empty Words”: A Comment on the Justice Department’s Libya Opinion
This paper draws upon a lecture delivered at the Harvard Law School on April 6, 2011, and upon three earlier works: Michael J. Glennon, The Constitution and Chapter VII of the UN Charter, 85 Am. J. Int’l L. 74 (1991); Michael J. Glennon, Too Far Apart: Repeal the War...
Detention
Phillip B. Heymann addresses a set of fundamental jurisprudential questions regarding the seizure and detention of those suspected of alliances with terrorist groups and causes.
The Number One National Security Threat?
Malik Ahmad Jalal argues that crippling public debt is the greatest threat to America’s global primacy.
Freezing and Seizing Qadhafi’s Assets
By Reena Mittelman — Already, Libyan assets frozen by the United States represent the largest amount ever blocked under an American sanctions action. Recent asset-recovery legislation passed in Switzerland suggests a way that the United States and its allies can seize even more.