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What/When/Where is War?

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On April 13, 2011
I learned quite a few new things about military law and the rules of war at the Cornell Bombing Workshop I attended last weekend (political scientists who study war law often do when sitting down with actual military practitioners and international law professionals). A short round-up of additional insights will follow, but this one merits […]

Debating Lawfare

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On April 8, 2011
Stephanie Carvin and I have been having another of our friendly little cat-fights over at Duck of Minerva on the technicalities of humanitarian law discourse. She thinks I was too hard on Posner for his conflation of General Dunlap’s “lawfare” concept with the naming and shaming efforts of NGOs or the invocations of war law […]

Bombs. Away.

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On April 7, 2011

I will be a attending a workshop at Cornell University on bombing norms for the next few days. (Presumably after I get back, I’ll never again bomb anything I’m not supposed to.) On this no

PATRIOTic Acts

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On April 6, 2011
Demand Progress.org, which is doing extremely important work on IT and civil liberties, has just sent me an email requesting me to join progressive Americans in “jamming the White House phone lines” urging President Obama to keep his campaign promise to “fix the PATRIOT Act.” I’m more than happy to sign a petition or call […]
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