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On Friday, April 6, 2012 I will be participating in a debate at The University of California, Davis School of Law.  The topic is "America's Reach:  The Constitutionality of Targeted Killing."  The speech is sponsored by the ACLU and the Federalist Society.

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On Tuesday, April 3, 2012 I will be participating in a debate at The University of Houston Law Center.  I’ve posted details from the flyer below.

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Now available on SSRN is my newest piece, Are Targeted Killings Unlawful?  A Case Study in Empirical Claims Without Empirical Evidence.  In the piece I argue that critics of the U.S. policy of targeted killing by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs or drones) generally lack credible information to justify their critiques. In fact, in [...]

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I just posted to SSRN the abstract for my chapter New Approaches to Reducing and Mitigating Harm to Civilians which will appear in the Oxford University Press book, Shaping a Global Legal Framework for Counterinsurgency: New Directions in Asymmetric Warfare (William C. Banks ed., 2012).  The abstract appears [...]

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Over at Lawfare I’ve posted a short summary of my collateral damage piece.  You can access the summary here.

To give you a feel for the flavor of the blog post, here is my concluding paragraph:

“Taken together, the CDM process provides predictions about likely effects, and the ROE specifies the decision authority [...]

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On Tuesday, October 4th I will be part of a panel at Mercer University School of Law.  The panel discussion will explore the differences between President Obama and President Bush’s national security policies, specifically as they relate to counterterrorism.  Some issues we will explore are:

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I’m reposting (with permission) a piece that was just published by Foreign Policy magazine entitled The Bin Laden Aftermath: Why Obama Chose SEALs, Not Drones.

Why did the United States choose to launch a raid against al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, rather than bombing it?  It wasn’t because of [...]

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Over at Lawfare Ben Wittes aks Will Bin Laden’s Death Reignite the Interrogation Debate? I think there is little doubt that it will.

Consider this recent post by Marc Thiessen over at The American Enterprise blog.  Thiessen writes

“So Guantanamo detainees provided the key intelligence that allowed the CIA to track down bin [...]

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Beyond confirming that Bin Laden was actually the person killed in Abottabad, what is the significance of troops being on the ground to conduct the Bin Laden Operation?  Can their presence lead us to the new #1 in al Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahiri?

In the coming days we will likely hear about the gathering of “pocket [...]

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I’m guest blogging over at Opinio Juris, below is a repost of something I wrote there:

First off, there is a lot of talk about this operation being a “human operation” involving special operations forces.  Some readers may assume that this meant there were no air assets involved (e.g. no Predators and no bombs [...]

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