After the AUMF, the Pithier Version…
For those who’d prefer the shorter version of Jen Daskal and my draft paper on life “After the AUMF,” we’ve got a short op-ed out in today’s New York Times with a far less alliterative title: “Don’t … Read more »
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Daskal and Vladeck Working Paper on “After the AUMF”
In advance of Thursday’s Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on the 2001 Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF), Jen Daskal and I have expanded upon our exchanges with Bobby, Jack, Matt, and Ben in a new (draft) working … Read more »
A Quick Guide to the Lawfare Debate Over a New AUMF
As Andrew Rosenthal noted in yesterday’s New York Times, things seem to be heating up in Congress with respect to whether–and to what extent–the September 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) needs to be updated, repealed, and/or … Read more »
Keith Gerver on Yesterday’s Senate Foreign Relations Committee Hearing
Keith Gerver writes in with the following account of yesterday’s Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing, which seems to have tracked closely some recent arguments on Lawfare:
The recent debate between Bobby, Jack, Ben, and Matt, on the one hand,
Coming at the AUMF Debate from a Different Angle
I’ve so far stayed out of the exchange over the last few days between Jack, on the one hand, and Steve and Jennifer Daskal, on the other, about the paper that Jack and Matt and Bobby and I wrote on … Read more »
Guantánamo Turns 11…
To commemorate (if that’s even the right word) the eleventh anniversary of the detention of non-citizens at Guantánamo, Oscar-nominated filmmaker Laura Poitras (whose work includes, among others, The Oath) has this short op-ed and movie up on the New … Read more »
Jen Daskal Argues Against Closing Guantanamo
Jennifer Daskal—who is a fellow at Georgetown law these days, after serving as NSD and working for Human Rights Watch—has a genuinely brave oped in the New York Times this morning entitled “Don’t Close Guantanamo.” It argues, against … Read more »
July 19 D.C. Bar Panel on Military Commissions, Present and Future
For D.C.-area readers, I’ll be participating in what should be a lively discussion of the current and future legal and policy issues surrounding military commissions (I suspect it will be that much livelier if Hamdan comes down in the … Read more »
Peter Margulies on Targeting and the Geography of War
Peter Margulies of Roger Williams University School of Law writes in with the following summary of a recent Naval War College and Roger Williams workshop:
John Brennan’s recent speech on targeting away from the battlefield has spawned controversy among distinguished
