Readings

• Harold Koh, Legal Adviser to Dept. of State, Address at American Society of International Law: International Law and the Obama Administration (March 25, 2010), available at www.state.gov/s/l/releases/remarks/139119.htm

• Al-Aulaqi Decision

• The Year of the Drone (Data on Aerial Drone Strikes)

• Report of the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Philip Alston [PDF]

• Al-Shimari Opinion Dismissing Appeal [PDF]

5. Relation between Domestic Law and Targeted Killing

• Lawrence Alexander:
The Doomsday Machine: Proportionality, Punishment and Prevention, 63 MIND 199 (1980) [PDF]

• Claire Finkelstein:
Threats and Preemptive Practices, 5 LEGAL THEORY 311 (1999) [PDF]

• Amos Guiora:
Targeted Killing as Active Self-Defense, 36 CASE W. RES. J. INT’L L. 319 (2004) [PDF]

• Tenn v. Garner, 471 U.S. 1 (1984) (fleeing suspect case) [PDF]

• Katko v. Briney, 183 N.W.2d 257 (Iowa 1971) (spring-gun case) [PDF]

6. Press Coverage on National Secrecy

• Inside the Killing Machine Newsweek

• Gary Solis
CIA drone attacks produce America’s own unlawful combatants

• Geoffrey Robertson
Is It Lawful to Kill Gaddafi?

• Ken Dilanian
CIA has slashed its terrorism interrogation role

• Charlie Savage
Secret U.S. Memo Made Legal Case to Kill a Citizen New York Times

• Scott Horton
Justifying the Killing of an American

• David Cole
Killing Citizens in Secret

• Ahmed Al-Haj
Yemen Says Air-Strike Kills Al-Qaeda Media Chief

• Eric Schmitt and Thom Shanker
U.S. Debated Cyberwarfare in Attack Plan on Libya

• Morris Davis
Combatant Immunity and the Death of Anwar al-Awlaqi

• Nicholas Schmidle
Getting Bin Ladin [PDF]

• David S. Cloud and David Zucchino
Multiple missteps led to drone killing U.S. troops in Afghanistan

• Spencer Ackerman
CIA Drones Kill Large Groups Without Knowing Who They Are

• Daphne Eviatar
CIA Drones Gone Wild? [PDF]

• Adam Entous
US Tightens Drone Rules

• Daniel Swift
Drone Knowns and Drone Unknowns [PDF]

• Iran’s downing of U.S. drone rattles Washington Tehran Times

• Scott Shane and David E. Sanger
Drone Crash in Iran Reveals Secret U.S. Surveillance Effort

• Peter W. Singer
Do Drones Undermine Democracy? [PDF] New York Times

• Eric Schmitt and Michael S. Schmidt
U.S. Drones Patrolling Its Skies Provoke Outrage in Iraq New York Times

• Karen DeYoung
ACLU sues to force release of drone attack records The Washington Post
The complaint [PDF] by the ACLU

• Editorial
America’s drone wars Los Angeles Times

• John Sifton
A Brief History of Drones The Nation

• Jackie Calmes, Charlie Savage, Jo Becker and Scott Shane
A Measure of Change (series)

• Daniel Klaidman
Drones: How Obama Learned to Kill Excerpt from Klaidman’s Kill or Capture: The War on Terror and the Soul of the Obama Presidency.

• David Luban
What Would Augustine Do? The President, Drones, and Just War Theory

• Bruce Ackerman
Protect, Don’t Prosecute, Patriotic Leakers

• David Taintor
Poll: Americans Are The ‘Clear Outliers’ In Support For Drone Strikes

• Mark Mazzetti
The Drone Zone

• homelandsecuritynewswire.com
Do drones increase the likelihood of war by lowering its cost?

• Marc Ambinder
10 Things You Didn’t Know About The National Security Agency Suveillance Program

• Mattea Kramer and Chris Hellman
‘Homeland Security’: The Trillion-Dollar Concept That No One Can Define

7. Contemporary Issues on Secrecy and the Rule of Law

• Meir Dan-Cohen
Decision Rules and Conduct Rules: On Acoustic Separation in Criminal Law [PDF]

• Editorial
The Power to Kill New York Times

• Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Secrecy as Regulation [PDF]

• Daniel Patrick Moynihan
The Routinization of Secrecy [PDF]

• Seumas Miller and Michael J. Selgelid
Ethical and Philosophical Consideration of the Dual-use Dilemma in the Biological Sciences [PDF]

• Editorial
“Statement on scientific publication and security” fails to provide necessary guidelines [PDF] PNAS

• Journal Editors and Authors Group
Uncensored exchange of scientific results PNAS

• Statement of Anthony S. Fauci, M.D.
Dual Use Research of Concern: Balancing Benefits and Risks

• Glenn Greenwald
Three key lessons from the Obama administration’s drone lies

8. Philosophical Writings on Publicity Conditions

• Kevin R. Davis
Kantian “Publicity” and Political Justice [PDF]

• Samuel Freeman
The burdens of public justification: constructivism, contractualism, and publicity [PDF]

• Thomas Hobbes
On the Office of Sovereign Representative [PDF]

• Charles Larmore
Public Reason [PDF]

• Macchiavelli
The Prince [PDF]

• Plato
The Noble Lie [PDF]

• John Rawls
Formal Conditions of Right [PDF]

• John Rawls
Two Concepts of Rules [PDF]

• Andrew Williams
Incentives, Inequality, and Publicity [PDF]

9. Classification and Executive Privilege

• Mohamed v. Jeppensen Dataplan (9th District Court of Appeals) [PDF]

• David Carr
Blurred Line Between Espionage and Truth

• Andre Cohen
The Torture Memos: Ten Years Later

• Liza Goitein and J. William Leonard
America’s Unnecessary Secrets

• Gia Lee
The Presidents Secret [PDF] George Washington Law Review, 2007.

• Eric Posner and Adrian Vermeule
Terror in the Balance: Security, Liberty and the Courts; Introduction [PDF]

• Charlie Savage
Ex-C.I.A Officer Charged in Information Leak

• Max Weber
Economy and Society, Ch. 11: Bureaucracy” [PDF]

• US District Court- New York
Azmy v. DoD [PDF]

10. Secrecy and Military Operations

• US District Court: District of Columbia
Excerpt from “Al-Alaqi v. Obama” [PDF]

• John Brennan
The Ethics and Efficacy of the President’s Counterterrorism Strategy

• Editorial
America’s drone wars Los Angeles Times

• Justin Elliott
Obama Administration’s Drone Death Numbers Don’t Add up

• John Hart Ely
War and Responsibility, Ch 4-5 [PDF]

• Josh Gerstein
Judge losing patience with feds in targeted killing FOIA case

• Jack Goldsmith
Fire When Ready

• Kevin Govern
Warrant-Based Killings [PDF]

• Karen Greenberg
Doubling down on 9/11

• Scott Horton
Justifying the Killing of an American

• W. Michael Reisman and James E. Baker
Regulating Covert Action, Ch. 1-2 [PDF]

• Charlie Savage
Secret U.S. Memo Made Legal Case to Kill a Citizen

• Kim Lane Scheppelle
The Sociology of Secrecy [PDF] Legal Secrets, Chapter 1

• Scott Shane
U.S. Attacks, Online and From the Air, Fuel Secrecy Debate

• Daniel Swift
Drone Knowns and Drone Unknowns [PDF]

• Emptywheel
CIA’s Drone Lies and Congressional Oversight

11. Secrecy and Civil Rights

• Michael Dorf
Arlen Specter’s Swan Song: Mandating Cameras in the Supreme Court

• Editorial
Live, From the Supreme Court NY Times

• Editorial
Exceptional Court Coverage NY Times

• Amy Goodman
National Security Agency Whistleblower William Binney on Growing State Surveillance

• Senator Jeff Merkley
Senator Merkley on Secret Law and NSA Spying

• Adam D. Moore
Privacy, Security and Government Surveillance: Wikileaks and the New Accountability [PDF]

• Alan Rubel
Privacy and the USA Patriot Act: Rights, the Value of Right, and Autonomy [PDF]

• Matthew Taylor and Nick Hopkins
World’s leading authors: state surveillance of personal data is theft

• Edward Wyatt and Claire Cain Miller
Tech Giants Issue Call for Limits on Government Surveillance of Users

• Nicole Perlroth and Vindu Goel
Internet Firms Step Up Efforts to Stop Spying

• Barton Gellman and Ashkan Soltani
NSA tracking cellphone locations worldwide, Snowden documents show

• Anthony Faiola
Britain targets Guardian newspaper over intelligence leaks related to Edward Snowden

• Brian X. Chen
A Senator Plans Legislation to Narrow Authorities’ Cellphone Data Requests

• David E. Sanger
Obama Panel Said to Urge N.S.A. Curbs

• Peter Baker and Charlie Savage
Peter Baker and Charlie Savage
Obama Seeks Balance in Plan for Spy Programs

• Ellen Nakashima
NSA exploring alternatives to holding database of domestic phone records

• Greg Miller and Ellen Nakashima
Officials’ defenses of NSA phone program may be unraveling

• Ellen Nakashimaand Ashkan Soltani
Panel Urges new curbs on surveillance by U.S.

12. The Ethics of Leaks: When to Release Information, When to Prosecute

• E.E.B. and K.E.M.
Plugging the Leak: The Case for a Legislative Resolution of the Conflict between the Demands of Secrecy and the Need for an Open Government [pdf]

• Alan M Katz
Government Information Leaks and the First Amendment [PDF]

• Tara McKelvey
Leak About Al Qaeda Plot and Double Agent Helps CIA, Could Scare Terrorists

• Heidi Kitrosser
Classified Information Leaks and Free Speech [PDF] University of Illinois Law Review, 2008.

• Derigan A. Silver
National Security and the Press: The Government’s Ability to Prosecute Journalists for the Possession or Publication of National Security Information [PDF]

• Geoffrey R. Stone
Prosecuting the Press for Publishing Classified Information [PDF]

13. Cyberwar

• Bradley Cho
Spot the Hacker: Combating Cyberwarfare under the International Rule of Law

• Mark Clayton
Cyberwar timeline

• Roger Crisp
Cyberwarfare: No New Ethics Needed

• Adam Cummings, Todd Lewellen, David McIntire, Andrew P. Moore and Randall Trzeciak
Insider Threat Study: Illicit Cyber Activity Involving Fraud in the U.S. Financial Services Sector

• Randall R. Dipert
Ethical Issues of Cyberwarfare

• Cordula Droege
No legal vacuum in cyber space

• Editorial
When the government kills

• Beverley Head
World teeters on cyber-war brink

• Council of Europe
Convention on Cybercrime

• DHS.gov
Presidential Policy Directive / PPD-8: National Preparedness

• Oona A. Hathaway, Rebecca Crootof, Philip Levitz, Haley Nix, Aileen Nowlan, William Perdue and Julia Spiegel
The Law of Cyber-Attack

• Homelandsecuritynewswire.com
China’s cyber espionage campaign described as “the greatest transfer of wealth in history”

• J. Nicholas Hoover
Cyber Attacks Becoming Top Terror Threat, FBI Says

• Bryan Krekel, Patton Adams and George Bakos
Occupying the Information High Ground: Chinese Capabilities for Computer Network Operations and Cyber Espionage

• James A. Lewis
Cybersecurity Assessing the Immediate Threat to the United States

• Patrick Lin, Fritz Allhoff, and Neil Rowe
Is It Possible to Wage a Just Cyberwar?

• A. Edward Major
Law and Ethics in Command Decision Making [PDF]

• Anna Mulrine
Cyberdefense: Should Americans be concerned about their privacy?

• RT.com
FBI: Cyber attacks – America’s top terror threat

• David E. Sanger and Eric Schmitt
Rise Is Seen in Cyberattacks Targeting U.S. Infrastructure
Video

• Michael S. Schmidt
Cybersecurity Bill Is Blocked in Senate by G.O.P. Filibuster

• Michael S. Schmidt
Senators Force Weaker Safeguards Against Cyberattacks

• Whitehouse.gov
International Strategy for Cyberspace [PDF]

•Susan W. Brenner with Leo L. Clarke
Civilians in Cyberwarfare: Conscripts [PDF]
Civilians in Cyberwarfare: Casualties [PDF]

• K. Saalbach
Methods and Practice [PDF]

• Nicole Perlroth
Virus Seeking Bank Data Is Tied to Attack on Iran

• Mary Ellen O’Connell
Cyber Security without Cyber War

• Homeland Security News Wire
US Always Ends up Regulating New Technologies for Public Safety

• Nicole Perlroth
Software Meant to Fight Crime Is Used to Spy on Dissidents

• Department of Defense
Strategy for Operating in Cyberspace

• United States Government Accountability Office
Defense Department Cyber Efforts: DOD Faces Challenges In Its Cyber Activities

• Eric Fischer
Federal Laws Relating to Cybersecurity: Discussion of Proposed Revisions

• Kenneth Geers
Strategic Cyber Security

• Stewart Baker
Draft Cybersecurity Executive Order Leaks

• Editorial
A New Kind of Warfare

• Brendan Sasso
White House Confirms Cybersecurity Order in the Works The Hill

• The White House
Cybersecurity Progress after President Obama’s Address

• Homeland Security News Wire
Civilian Cyberwarriors Not Motivated by Patriotism

• Cyberspace Policy review [PDF]

• John O. Brennan
John Brennan Response to Sen. Rockefeller on Cybersecurity Legislation [PDF]

• Sean Kanuck
Sovereign Discourse on Cyber Conflict Under International Law [PDF] Texas Law Review

• Thom Shanker and David E. Sanger
U.S. Suspects Iran Was Behind a Wave of Cyberattacks

• Michael N. Schmitt, General Editor
Tallinn Manual on the International Law Applicable to Cyber Warfare

• Candace Yu
We Have an Antiquated Framework

14. Treatment of Detainees

• Inspector General (Pentagon)
Investigation of Allegations of the use of Mind-altering Drugs to Facilitate Interrogation of Detainees

• Thelma Gutierrez
Investigation of Lawsuit: ICE drugging detainees set for deportation

• Jeffrey Kaye
A Guantanamo Connection? Documents Show CIA Stockpiled Antimalaria Drugs as “Incapacitating Agents”

• Christian M. Halliburton
Letting Katz out of the Bag: Cognitive Freedom and Fourth Amendment Fidelity [PDF]

• Talkingpointsmemo.com
Eric Holder’s Full Statement On Closing Investigation Of CIA Detainee Deaths

15. Sovereignty

• Greg Miller
In interview, Yemeni president acknowledges approving U.S. drone strikes

• Steven G. Calabresi, Mark E. Berghausen & Skylar Albertson
“The Rise and Fall of the Separation of Powers,” Northwestern University Law Review, 2012

• Vicki Divoll
“The ‘Full Access Doctrine’: Congress’s Constitutional Entitlement to National Security Information from the Executive,” Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, 2011

• Keith E. Whittington and Daniel P. Carpenter
“Executive Power in American Institutional Development,” Perspective on Politics, 2003.

• Sharon Anderson-Gold
“Terrorism and the Politics of Human Rights,” Social Philosophy Today, 2004.

• Omar Dahbour
“Advocating Sovereignty in an Age of Globalization,” Journal of Social Philosophy, 2006.

• Jovana Davidovic
“Are Humanitarian Military Interventions Obligatory?” Journal of Applied Philosophy, 2008.

• Renée De Nevers
“Sovereignty and Ethical Argument in the Struggle against State Sponsors of Terrorism,” Journal of Military Ethics, 2007.

• Gerald Doppelt
“Walzer’s Theory of Morality in International Relations,” Philosophy and Public Affairs, 1978.

• Michael Dusche
“Human Rights, Autonomy and National Sovereignty,” Ethical Perspectives: Journal of the European Ethics Network, 2000.

• David Held
“Law of States, Law of Peoples: Three Models of Sovereignty,” Legal Theory, 2002.

• Bernd Krehoff
“Legitimate Political Authority and Sovereignty: Why States Cannot Be the Whole Story,” Res Publica: A Journal of Legal and Social Philosophy, 2008.

• Christopher Morris
“The Very Idea of Popular Sovereignty: “We the People” Reconsidered,” Social Philosophy and Policy, 2000.

• James Nickel
“Is Today’s International Human Rights System a Global Governance Regime,” Journal of Ethics: An International Philosophical Review, 2002.

• Mathias Risse
“What to Say about the State,” Social Theory and Practice: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal of Social Philosophy, 2006.

• Michael Walzer
Philosophy and Public Affairs, 9 (September 1980): 209-229.

• Christopher Wellman
“Taking Human Rights Seriously,” Journal of Political Philosophy, 2012.

• Marlene, Wind
“Challenging Sovereignty? The USA and the Establishment of the International Criminal Courtr,” Ethics and Global Politics, 2009.

• Anthony J. Colangelo
“Constitutional Limits on Extraterritorial Jurisdiction: Terrorism and the Intersection of National and
International Law,” 48 Harv. Int’l L. J. 121 (2007)

• Robert J. Delahunty & John Choon Yoo
“Executive Power v. International Law,” 30 Harv. J. L. & Pub. Pol’y 73 (2007)

• Laura Donohue
“Federalism and the Battle over Counterterrorist Law: State Sovereignty, Criminal Law Enforcement, and National Security,” 25 Stud. Conflict & Terrorism 1 (2002)

• Sharon Anderson-Gold
“Terrorism and the Politics of Human Rights in Social Philosophy Today,” War and Terrorism, Volume 20, Rowan, John R (ed), 155-164

• John Yoo
“George Washington and the Executive Power,” University of St. Thomas Journal of Law & Public Policy, 2010

• John Yoo
“Unitary, Executive or Both?” University of Chicago Law Review, 2009

• John Yoo
“Andrew Jackson and Presidential Power,” Charleston Law Review, 2008

• Robert J. Delahunty and John Yoo
“Executive Power v. International Law,” Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, 2006

• Jide Nzelibe and John Yoo
“Rational War and Constitutional Design,” Yale Law Journal Symposium, 2006

• John C. Yoo and Robert J. Delahunty
“The President’s Constitutional Authority to Conduct Military Operations Against Terrorist Organizations and the Nations that Harbor or Support Them,” Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, 2002

• John Yoo
“UN Wars, US War Powers,” Chicago Journal of International Law, 2000

• John Yoo
“Sounds of Sovereignty: Defining Federalism in the 1990s,” Indiana Law Review, 1998

• John R. Crook, Ed.
“Contemporary Practice of the United States Relating to International Law,” 104 Am. J. Int’l L. 117, 2010

• Laurie R. Blank
“Targeted Strikes: The Consequences of Blurring the Armed Conflict and Self-Defense Justifications,” 38 Wm. Mitchell L. Rev. 1655, 2012

• Derek Jinks
“The Declining Significance of POW Status,” 45 Harv. Int’l L.J. 367, 2004

• Geoffrey S. Corn
“The Role of the Courts in the War on Terror: The Intersection of Hyperbole, Military Necessity, and Judicial Review,” 43 New Eng. L. Rev. 17, 2008

• Noman Goheer
“The Unilateral Creation of International Law During the ‘War on Terror’ : Murder by an Unprivileged Belligerent is Not a War Crime,” 10 N.Y. City L. Rev. 533, 2007

• Joanna Woolman
Enemy Combatants: The Legal Origins of the Term “Enemy Combatant” Do Not Support its Present Day Use, 7 J.L. & Soc. Challenges 145, 2005

• Nathaniel Berman
Privileging Combat? Contemporary Conflict and the Legal Construction of War,” Columbia Journal of Transnational Law, 2004

• Lieutenant Colonel (s) Joseph P. “Dutch” Bialke
Al-Qaeda & Taliban Unlawful Combatant Detainees, Unlawful Belligerency, and the International Laws of Armed Conflict, 55 A.F. L. Rev. 1, 2004

• William Bradford
Barbarians at the Gates: A Post-September 11th Proposal to Rationalize the Laws of War, 73 Miss. L.J. 639, 2004

• Eric Talbot Jensen
Combatant Status: It is Time for Intermediate Levels of Recognition for Partial Compliance, 46 Va. J. Int’l L. 209, 2005

• Geoffrey S. Corn
Thinking the Unthinkable: Has the Time Come to Offer Combatant Immunity to Non-State Actors?” 22 STAN. L.&POL’Y REV.253, 2011

• Jens Ohlin
“The Duty to Capture,” Minnesota Law Review, Vol. 97, 2013

• Ryan Goodman
“The Power to Kill or Capture Enemy Combatants,” European Journal of International Law, Vol. 24, 2013

• Kenneth Anderson
“Readings: Jens Ohlin, ‘The Duty to Capture,’ Lawfare Blog, 2013

• Robert Chesney
“The Capture-or-Kill Debate #11: Goodman Responds to Ohlin,” Lawfare Blog, 2013

• Jens Ohlin
“The Capture-Kill Debate Continues,” LieberCode Blog, 2013

Procurement Ethics

• Dean C. Ludwig, Clinton O. Longenecker
The Bathsheba Syndrome: The Ethical Failure of Successful Leaders

• Edmund F. Byrne
Assessing Arms Makers’ Corporate Social Responsibility

• Margot Cleveland, Christopher M. Favo, Thomas J. Frecka, Charles L. Owens
Trends in the International Fight Against Bribery

• Barton H. Halpern, Keith F. Snider
Products that Kill and Corporate Social Responsibility: The Case of U.S. Defense Firms

• Gavin Maitland
The Ethics of the International Arms Trade

Readings

1. Responses to Targeted Killing

2. Drones

3. Targeted Killing in Current Law

4. Memoranda, Reports, and Cases on Targeted Killing