This book analyses the primary relevant rules of international law applicable to extra-
territorial use of force by states against non-state actors. Force in this context takes many …

This Article explains why and how computer technology complicates the related processes
of identifying internal (crime and terrorism) and external (war) threats to social order of …

For more than fifty years following the 1949 revision of the Geneva Conventions, legal
scholars, government experts, and military practitioners understood the articles that defined …

Hamdan v. Rumsfeld1 is a rare Supreme Court rebuke to the President during armed
conflict. The time is not yet right to tell all of the backstory of the case, but it is possible to offer …

Why should America restrain itself in detaining, interrogating, and targeting terrorists when
they show it no similar forbearance? Is it fair to expect one side to fight by more stringent …

The principle of reciprocity has long been foundational to international law and the law of
war specifically. 2 Reciprocity has a particularly strong t Assistant Professor of Law …

Counterinsurgency is the warfare of the age. Past eras have had their own forms of warfare
and their own theories of war.'In the 18th century, armies lined up on expansive battlefields …

Although sometimes described as war, the fight against transnational jihadi groups (referred
to for shorthand as the" fight against terrorism") largely takes place away from any …

Since the" surge" in Iraq in 2006, counterinsurgency effectively became America's dominant
approach for fighting wars. Yet many of the major controversies and debates surrounding …

In Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, the United States Supreme Court-invoking domestic law and
international law incorporated by reference thereto-ruled that the military commissions that …