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Jean Perkins Task Force on National Security and Law: Op-eds and Articles

February 21, 2010 | Los Angeles Times

Targeted for death

Military and human rights lawyers weigh in on the legality of the killing of Hamas' Mahmoud Mabhouh. . . .

February 10, 2010 | National Review

A Usurpation of National Sovereignty

The controversy sparked by the Sept. 15, 2009, publication of the Report of the United Nations Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict, otherwise known as the Goldstone Report, may appear to exclusively concern the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. . . .

February 5, 2010 | Washington Post (registration required)

The courts' shifting rules on Guantanamo detainees

One judge rules that a detainee's statements to his military review tribunal are tainted by past coercion -- and orders him released. . . .

February 1, 2010 | Washington Post (registration required)

Can we stop the global cyber arms race?

In a speech this month on "Internet freedom," Secretary of State Hillary Clinton decried the cyberattacks that threaten U.S. economic and national security interests. . . .

February 1, 2010

The Lawyering of War

Peter Berkowitz on The War on Terror and the Laws of War: A Military Perspective by Michael Lewis, Eric Jensen, Geoffrey Corn, Victor Hansen, Richard Jackson, and James Schoettler.

January 22, 2010 | Brookings Institution

The Emerging Law of Detention: The Guantánamo Habeas Cases as Lawmaking

President Obama’s decision not to seek additional legislative authority for detentions at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba—combined with Congress’s lack of interest in the task—means that, for good or for ill, judges must write the rules governing military detention of terrorist suspects. . . .

January 10, 2010 | Washington Post (registration required)

5 myths about who becomes a terrorist

By now, more than eight years after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, we should be better at plucking a terrorist out of an airport security line. . . .

January 11, 2010 | Newsweek

The New Rules of Engagement

Nine imperatives for our post-9/11 world. . . .

December 22, 2009 | Washington Post (registration required)

No place to write detention policy

Since U.S. forces started taking alleged terrorists to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the task of crafting American detention policy has migrated decisively from the executive branch to federal judges. . . .