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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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Ben Wittes, writing at Lawfare was kind enough to pen a write-up on my empirical paper The U.S. Practice of Collateral Damage Estimation and Mitigation.  I consider this a high honor.  Here is Ben’s take:

Whatever your view of the merits of targeted killing, this article, in my view at least, will [...]

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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 many [...]

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Amos Guiora has posted a great new article to SSRN, entitled Determining a Legitimate Target: The Dilemma of the Decision Maker. Guiora has some experience in these matters as he previously served as a legal adviser in the IDF (full disclosure, we also worked together at the Institute for Global Security).  Here is [...]

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The January/February issue of the American Bar Association’s National Security Law Report, a publication of the Standing Committee on Law and National Security is now available on-line. 

In this issue we feature three contributions which address the important topic of direct action against alleged terrorists and the legal framework which should govern in [...]

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