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Benjamin Wittes is a Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution, where he co-directs the Harvard Law School-Brookings Project on Law and Security. He is the author of several books and a member of the Hoover Institution's Task Force on National Security and Law. Full bio »

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Wednesday, May 16, 2012

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Let’s begin with drones (which will get you if you don’t fill out the Reader Survey).

The Washington Post reports that Pakistanis angry about U.S. drone strikes have redirected their ire towards their own government.

Bill Quigley, a human rights lawyer and professor at Loyola University in New Orleans, outlines five reasons drone strikes are illegal in … Read more »

Podcasts

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Lawfare Podcast Episode #11: Jennifer Daskal on the Geography of the Battlefield
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Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Lawfare Podcast Episode #10: Peter Berkowitz on Israel and the Laws of War
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Thursday, April 19, 2012

Lawfare Podcast Episode #9: Jack Interviews the President (of Estonia) About Cyber
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Book Reviews

• The Sudan Handbook by John Ryle, Justin Willis, Suliman Baldo, and Jok Madut Jok, eds., reviewed by Tom Porteous
• Rush to Judgment: George W. Bush, the War on Terror, and His Critics by Stephen F. Knott, reviewed by Benjamin Kleinerman
• Justice in Blue and Grey: A Legal History of the Civil War by Stephen C. Neff, reviewed by Alan G. Kaufman
• Counterstrike: The Untold Story of America’s Secret Campaign Against Al Qaeda by Eric Schmitt and Thom Shanker, reviewed by Samuel Rascoff
• The Black Banners: The Inside Story of 9/11 and the War Against al-Qaeda by Ali H. Soufan with Daniel Freedman, reviewed by Dana Stern Gibber

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