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Emma DiNapoli

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Emma is a J.D. candidate at Columbia Law School. Prior to law school, she worked for a federal consulting firm on issues of national security and refugee resettlement, and for a capacity-building NGO in the West Bank. She also served in the Peace Corps in Jordan and Mongolia. She holds a B.A. in English and Religious Studies from the University of Virginia.

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Military Commissions

Update From the Military Commissions: A Big September in the 9/11 Case

Emma DiNapoli, Rachael Hanna, Patrick McDonnell, Masha Simonova, Jacques Singer-Emery   Wed, Oct 23, 2019, 11:36 AM

Last month, the military commission for the matter of United States v. Khalid Shaikh Mohammad et al. (i.e., the 9/11 trial) held a marathon three weeks of nearly back-to-back hearings. After being held up by delays in the publication and release of relevant transcripts, this post summarizes these proceedings and identifies several areas of potential interest, including testimony from two FBI special agents regarding their interviews with the defendants and their prior knowledge of alleged torture by the CIA.

September 9

Military Commissions

Update on the Military Commissions: Continued Health Issues, Recusal Motion and a New Cell in 'al-Iraqi'

Emma DiNapoli, Rachael Hanna, Patrick McDonnell, Jacques Singer-Emery   Fri, Sep 13, 2019, 8:57 AM

The military commission trying alleged al-Qaeda commander Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi reconvened Aug. 21-28. You can find previous Lawfare coverage here and here.

Drones

German Courts Weigh Legal Responsibility for U.S. Drone Strikes

Emma DiNapoli   Thu, Apr 4, 2019, 9:18 AM

On March 13 and 14, a German court considered two challenges to the U.S. drone program in the Middle East and East Africa. Both cases, brought before the Higher Administrative Court of North Rhine-Westphalia in Münster, assert that Germany bears legal responsibility for the consequences of U.S.-led drone strikes in Yemen and Somalia that were conducted from the U.S. Air Force’s Ramstein base, located in southwestern Germany.