Alan Rozenshtein is a second-year student at Harvard Law School, where he is an articles editor on the Harvard Law Review and academics chair of the Harvard National Security and Law Association. He has interned in the violent crimes and terrorism section of the criminal division of the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York. He graduated with an A.B. in history from Harvard University in 2007 and studied philosophy at Balliol College, University of Oxford from 2007 to 2008.
As Raffaela has already noted, the European Court of Human Rights unanimously ruled this morning that Abu Hamza al-Masri and four other wanted terrorism suspects may be extradited from the United Kingdom to the United States. (Additional reporting on … Read more »
This morning the Supreme Court released its opinion in Zivotofsky v. Clinton. In an 8–1 decision, it reversed the lower courts’ dismissal of Menachim Zivotofsky’s suit to have “Jerusalem, Israel” listed as his place of birth. The Court held … Read more »
The D.C. Circuit heard oral argument yesterday in Doe v. Rumsfeld (11-5209), a Bivens case brought by a U.S. citizen working as a military contractor in Iraq who alleged detention and interrogation abuses by the U.S. government. The case is … Read more »
The New York Times is reporting that a group of flu and public health experts at a WHO-convened meeting in Geneva have decided that the full research details will be released regarding the highly contagious and deadly avian influenza developed … Read more »
The Senate is currently holding hearings on the upcoming cybersecurity bill. You can watch the live feed here.… Read more »
As Ben mentioned, we’re still waiting for iTunes to approve the Lawfare Podcast. Even before approval, however, you can subscribe to it through iTunes by following these simple steps:
The Constitution Project will be hosting a teleconference debate tomorrow (Wednesday) from 2:15 PM to 3:15 PM EST on the constitutionality of President Obama’s recent recess appointments. Details below the fold.… Read more »
The New York Times published two op-eds this weekend by former Guantánamo detainees — one by Lakhdar Boumediene, the lead plaintiff in Boumediene v. Bush, which extended a constitutional right to the writ of habeas corpus to Guantánamo Bay (and … Read more »
The State Department announced today that the Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism has been upgraded to bureau level and renamed the Bureau of Counterterrorism (press briefing and fact sheet). Ambassador Daniel Benjamin, who leads the office (now … Read more »
As Raffaella mentioned earlier, the Ninth Circuit released three opinions on Thursday relating to class action litigation against the government and major telecommunications companies (AT&T, Verizon, etc.) for the warrantless wiretapping program conducted by the National Security Agency (NSA) under … Read more »
In September, a team of Dutch virologists announced that they had created a strain of the avian influenza (H5N1) that, at least in lab animals, was as contagious as the seasonal flu. (A team at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has … Read more »
The new regulations for the military commissions have just been posted on the military commission’s website. This long (202 page) document is a comprehensive list of the military commissions’ procedures, from the charging process to the rules governing appeals. … Read more »
Oral arguments in Lebron v. Rumsfeld took place before the Fourth Circuit on Wednesday. The oral argument audio recording is available here, and my argument preview, with background on the case as well as links to the lower court decision … Read more »
Reuters has an interesting story about the NSA helping U.S. banks defend against foreign cyber attacks by providing them with “technical expertise.” According to the article, the NSA has already been helping NASDAQ protect against hackers. The government appears to … Read more »
Tomorrow, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit will hear oral arguments in Lebron v. Rumsfeld, in which Jose Padilla and his mother, Estella Lebron, appeal a district court’s dismissal of a Bivens claim against former Secretary … Read more »
