by Greg McNeal | Nov 30, 2011 | Archive
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...
by Greg McNeal | Nov 26, 2011 | Archive
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,...
by Greg McNeal | Nov 23, 2011 | Archive
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...
by Greg McNeal | Jun 10, 2011 | Archive
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 First, Verdict Afterwards a shorter version of his lengthier law...
by Greg McNeal | Jun 6, 2011 | Archive
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 the answer right. Clearly that answer can’t be “never,” because then even...
