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Greetings, and a Quick Thought on Brennan’s Speech

Very glad to have joined the Lawfare team.  I look forward to more sustained blogging once the spring grading season is over.  For now, I’ll offer just a quick thought on the speech John Brennan...

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Not Joining the Issues

Yesterday I posted a lengthy response to Gabor Rona’s critique of the Brennan speech, and Gabor has now replied to my comments.  Alas, we seem to be speaking past one another in various ways (for...

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Is It Legal For the U.S. To Use Force Against Iran?

My law partner (and former CIA General Counsel) Jeff Smith and I have an op-ed in today’s Washington Post  (entitled “Is It Legal to Hit Iran?” in the print edition) discussing the U.S. and...

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Corn, Blank, Jenks, and Jensen Respond to Goodman on Capture-Instead-of-Kill

The following is a guest-post from Geoff Corn, Laurie Blank, Christopher Jenks, and Eric Talbot Jensen, responding to Ryan Goodman’s recent Slate article (building on his new European Journal of...

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Goodman Responds to Corn, Blank, Jenks, and Jensen on Capture-Instead-of-Kill

The following is a guest post from Ryan Goodman, continuing a conversation begun yesterday in this post from Geoff Corn, Laurie Blank, Chris Jenks, and Eric Jensen. What the Critics of the “Lesser...

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The Capture-vs-Kill Debate #6: Rejoinder to Goodman from Corn, Blank, Jenks,...

The following guest post is the latest in a series comprising a debate as to whether LOAC requires an attempt to capture rather than a first-resort to lethal force in some circumstances.  The debate...

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The Capture-or-Kill Debate #7: Goodman Responds

The following guest post is the latest in a series comprising a debate as to whether LOAC requires an attempt to capture rather than a first-resort to lethal force in some circumstances.  The debate...

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Ohlin on Capture-or-Kill

I have been curating a running debate about whether LOAC requires an attempt to capture rather than a first-resort to lethal force in some circumstances, sparked by a paper from Professor Ryan Goodman...

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The Capture-or-Kill Debate #10: Goodman Responds to Heller

The following guest post is the latest in a series comprising a debate as to whether LOAC requires an attempt to capture rather than a first-resort to lethal force in some circumstances.  The debate...

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The Capture-or-Kill Debate #11: Goodman Responds to Ohlin

The following guest post is the latest in a series comprising a debate as to whether LOAC requires an attempt to capture rather than a first-resort to lethal force in some circumstances.  The debate...

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Corn Comments on the Costs of Shifting to a Pure Self-Defense Model

The following guest post is from Professor Geoffrey Corn (South Texas College of Law), in response to a post in which I raised the possibility that, in light of the non-battlefield targeting standards...

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