Collateral Damage and Targeted Killing
I will be presenting research at Tulane University School of Law on Thursday, September 1st. The talk is entitled “Collateral Damage and Targeted Killing” and is based on my work…
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“Thoughts on Innovation in Law Review Publishing” Flashback Time
Over at PrawfsBlawg Jen Kreder authored two posts about publishing in on-line law reviews (her contributions are here and here). In light of that I thought I would repost my…
Targeted Killing of U.S. Citizens and the Federal Protective Power
My essay The Federal Protective Power and Targeted Killing of U.S. Citizens is now available at CATO-Unbound.org. The essay is a response to Ryan Alford’s interesting historical piece entitled Sentence…
Targeted Killing and the Rule of Law
CATO’s June 2011 issue of Unbound is entitled “Targeted Killing and the Rule of Law” An excerpt: When can the executive lawfully kill? The rule of law itself depends on getting…
Is It Time To End The War on Drugs? My Brief Appearance on Fox News Today
Here is the video from my brief appearance on Fox News Today.
The U.S. Practice of Collateral Damage Estimation and Mitigation
I’ve posted to the abstract for my piece entitled. Here are the details: This paper explains how the U.S. military estimates and mitigates the impact of conventional weapons on collateral…
The bin Laden Aftermath: Why Obama Chose SEALs, Not Drones
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…
Pocket Litter, Intel and the Ground Operation
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…
Some Preliminary Thoughts on the Bin Laden Operation
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…
Targeted Killing Conference at University of Pennsylvania
I’m very excited about my upcoming participation in a conference at The University of Pennsylvania Law School. The conference is entitled “Using Targeted Killing to Fight the War on Terror:…