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Speaking the Law: The Obama Administration’s Speeches on National Security Law
Coauthored with Kenneth Anderson OVERVIEW Over the course of President Obama’s first term in office, the president and senior officials of his administration have given a series of major speeches on the legal framework for confronting terrorists overseas. The speeches collectively represent the fullest statement the administration has given of the law of drones, targeted […]
Campaign 2012: Twelve Independent Ideas for Improving American Public Policy
Ready or not, the quadrennial run for the White House is upon us. American voters face a very different landscape than they did four years ago, when the presidential race was relatively wide open and neither the sitting president nor vice president was seeking the nation’s highest office. Osama bin Laden and Muammar Qaddafi are […]
Constitution 3.0, Freedom and Technical Change
Technological changes are posing stark challenges to America’s core values. Basic constitutional principles find themselves under stress from stunning advances that were unimaginable even a few decades ago, much less during the Founders’ era. Policymakers and scholars must begin thinking about how constitutional principles are being tested by technological change and how to ensure that […]
Detention and Denial: The Case for Candor after Guantánamo
“Our current stalemate over detention serves nobody—not the military or any other component of the U.S. government that has to operate overseas. . . . It is a system that no rational combination of values or strategic considerations would have produced; it could have emerged only as a consequence of a clash of interests that […]
Legislating the War on Terror: An Agenda for Reform
9/11 and subsequent American actions irrevocably changed the political, military, and legal landscapes of U.S. national security. Predictably, many of the changes were controversial, and abuses were revealed. The United States needs a new legal framework that reflects these new realities.
Law and the Long War: The Future of Justice in the Age of Terror
America is losing a crucial front in the ongoing war on terror. It is losing not to Al Qaeda, but to its own failure to construct a set of laws that will protect the American people during this global conflict. As debate continues to rage over the legality and ethics of war, Benjamin Wittes enters […]
Confirmation Wars: Preserving Independent Courts in Angry Times
Just in time for the first Supreme Court confirmation of the Obama administration, one of America’s most insightful legal commentators updates the critically acclaimed Confirmation Wars: Preserving Independent Courts in Angry Times to place the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor in the context of the changing nature of judicial nominations by recent presidents.
Starr: A Reassesment
How is Kenneth Starr’s extraordinary term as independent counsel to be understood? Was he a partisan warrior out to get the Clintons, or a saviour of the Republic? An unstoppable menace, an unethical lawyer, or a sex-obsessed Puritan striving to enforce a right-wing social morality? This volume is designed to offer an evaluation and critique […]
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