by An Hertogen by An Hertogen This week on Opinio Juris, drone strikes unsurprisingly took center stage. In anticipation of President Obama’s speech, Jonathan Horowitz contributed a guest post on their human rights…
The US’s Retreat from IHL (or, the Triumph of Ryan Goodman)
by Kevin Jon Heller In previous posts (here and here), I discussed the reasons why Obama will never actually enforce the "near certainty" standard regarding civilian casualties and noted that the standard is vastly more restrictive…
by Deborah Pearlstein by Deborah Pearlstein There is now a set of important new documents regarding its targeted killing operations: (1) a letter from U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to members of Congress describing the decision to target…