National Security Advisors

"A national security law blog."

Author: The law professors who post here: Robert M. Chesney of Wake Forest University; Steve Vladeck of the University of Miami; Tung Yin of the University of Iowa, who also authors The Yin Blog; Geoff Corn of the University of Iowa; David Glazier of Loyola Marymount University-Los Angeles; Victor Hansen of New England School of Law, Andrew Kent of Fordham University, and Amos Guiora of the University of Utah, who also posts at AIDP Blog.

Recent Posts from National Security Advisors

License to Kill
See my article, License to Kill, published in Foreign Policy on July 13, 2009. In light of the new reports that the CIA operated a secret program to capture or kill Al-Qaeda operatives, this article…
Judicial Review and the Executive: Lessons from Israel
See my op-ed, Judicial Review and the Executive: Lessons from Israel, published in the Jurist in which I propose that if the US had followed Israel's lead in taking an aggressive approach to judicial review…
International Law: Where Have we Been; Where are we Going?
See my article, International Law: Where Have we Been; Where are we Going?, published in Univesity of Pennsylvania Journal of International Economic Law. Abstract: The need to operationalize international law from the perspective of the…
Religious Extremism: A Fundamental Danger
Read my article, Religious Extremism: A Fundamental Danger, published in South Texas Law Review. Abstract: Terrorism constitutes one of the gravest threats against democratic societies in the 21st century; in particular, religiously motivated terrorism. Why…
Changes to the UCMJ needed to prevent Presidential Overreaching
In early May, President Obama announced the administration’s intention to continue the use of military commissions to try some of the suspected terrorists now being held atGuantanamo. At the same time, the President announced a…
Judicial Review and Administrative Detention
[I had initially submitted the following post in two parts. They appear below in sequence, with the second half responding specifically to Ken Anderson's question.] The ‘limits of power’ is essential to the ‘rule of…
An Israeli Case for Administrative Detention
I would like to thank everyone at Opinio Juris for inviting me to guest blog this week on detention policy issues facing the Obama Administration, the Congress, and the courts. Needless to say, I hope…
More on the Israeli Model
In my post "An Israeli Case for Administrative Detention", I presented the fundamental principles of administrative detention. Today, I will discuss the process and considerations when to apply the measure as developed over the course…
Dilemmas in the Administrative Detention Paradigm
There are two fundamental realities regarding the Israeli administrative detention process: 1) the individual (detainee) cannot confront his accuser 2) the individual (detainee) involved in planning terrorist actions is detained prior to carrying out an…
The [Unfortunate] Resurrection of the Military Commission
President Obama's announcement Friday that he was going to resume military commission trials comes as a real disappointment to those who believe that conforming the fight against terror with the rule of law is the…