I. Trump and Russia
- Luis Moreno Ocampo, How Trump Can Work with Russia to Challenge the Status Quo and to Control ISIS (Wednesday, Jan. 18)
- Kate Brannen, Tracking the Trump Team’s Conflicting or False Statements on Russia (Chart) (Thursday, Jan. 19)
II. Working in the Trump Administration
- Oona Hathaway and Sarah Weiner, Dissenting from Within the Trump Administration (Tuesday, Jan. 17)
III. Norms Watch
- Katerina Wright, Norms Watch: Tracking the Erosion of Democratic Traditions (Jan. 13-20) (Friday, Jan. 20)
IV. CIA Data Collection Guidelines
- John Reed, The CIA’s New Guidelines for Handling Americans’ Information (Wednesday, Jan. 19)
- Jennifer Daskal, Five Quick Observations: The CIA’s New Guidelines for Handling Americans’ Data (Thursday, Jan. 19)
V. United Kingdom Supreme Court National Security Decisions
- Just Security, UK Supreme Court Issues Two Major Decisions—On cooperation with CIA interrogations and on military detention (Tuesday, Jan. 17)
- Shaheed Fatima Q.C., UK Supreme Court Judgment on Extra-Territorial Detention in Iraq and Afghanistan (Tuesday, Jan. 17)
- William Dodge, The UK Supreme Court’s Landmark Judgment Belhaj v. Straw: A View From the United States (Thursday, Jan. 19)
VI. Manning Commutation and Cartwright Pardon
- Steve Vladeck, Why the Cartwright Pardon is More Important Than the Manning Commutation (Tuesday, Jan. 17)
VII. Resort to Military Force
- Adil Haque, Kreß & Barriga’s The Crime of Aggression: A Commentary (Tuesday, Jan. 17)
- Adil Haque, The United Kingdom’s “Modern Law of Self-Defence”—Part III (Tuesday, Jan. 17)
VIII. Law of Armed Conflict
- Adil Haque, A Right to Fight? (Wednesday, Jan. 18)
IX. Torture
- Marty Lederman, DOJ’s perplexing motion for reconsideration of Judge Lamberth’s retention order re: the SSCI Torture Report (Sunday, Jan. 15)
X. Civilian Casualties
- Ryan Goodman, Obama Admin: Only One Civilian Killed by U.S. Outside of War Zones in 2016 (Friday, Jan. 20)