Recap: A Mid-Week Guide to Posts on Just Security (Oct. 19-23)

I. Surveillance and Data Collection
Steve Vladeck,  Laura Donohue’s Comprehensive Case Against Bulk Metadata Collection (Wednesday, Oct. 23)
II. Journalism and Media
Debate on the Proposed Media Shield Law (Monday, Oct. 21)

• David Pozen, Guest Post: Why a Media Shield Law May Be a Sieve
• Sophia Cope, Guest Post: A Federal Shield Law is Needed to Protect Confidential Sources and the Public’s Right to Know: A Reply to David Pozen

III. Law of Armed Conflict (Jus in Bello) & International Human Rights in Conflict
A. Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch Reports on Targeted Killings
1. Exchange on Amnesty International’s Report on Targeted Killings in Pakistan (Tuesday, Oct. 22)

• Naureen Shah, Guest Post: When Will the US Government Commit to Investigating Unlawful Drone Strike Deaths?
• Chris Jenks, Guest Post: Amnesty International’s Drone Strike Report: Once more into the lex lata/ferenda breach?

2. Sarah Knuckey, Human Rights Groups Release Investigation Reports into US Targeted Killings: A Guide to the Issues  (Tuesday, Oct. 22)
3. Ryan Goodman, Targeted Killings — The US Power to Kill and the Yemeni Power to Capture (Wednesday, Oct. 23)
B. UN Drones Reports, Co-belligerency, and Transparency
1. Kevin Jon Heller, Guest Post: The Problematic “Belonging To” Analogy: A Response to Goodman (Wednesday, Oct. 23)
2. Eric Jensen, Guest Post: The Report of the UN Special Rapporteur for Extrajudicial Executions: Law or Advocacy?  (Wednesday, Oct. 23)
3. Philip Alston, IHL, Transparency, and the Heyns’ UN Drones Report  (Wednesday, Oct. 23)