1. Scholarship

Should Bush Administration Lawyers Be Prosecuted for Authorizing Torture?”

Pennsylvania Law Review’s online component, PENNumbra, has posted a very interesting exchange of short essays between Professors Claire Finkelstein and Michael Lewis on the question of prosecuting lawyers involved in the post-9/11 interrogation policy.

2. Recent events of interest

Harvard National Security Journal Symposium: Drone Warfare: New Robotics & The Legality of Targeted Killings (Mar. 5, 2010)

Panel 1: Unmanned Military Robotics: Drones & Your iPhone

· Missy Cummings, MIT Humans and Automation Lab

· Ken Anderson, American University

· Tad Oelstrom, Harvard Kennedy School

· Click here to view part 1 of the symposium

Panel 2: Targeted Killings of Alleged Terrorists

· Gabriella Blum, Harvard Law School

· Afsheen John Radsan, William Mitchell College of Law

· Jonathan Manes, ACLU National Security Project

· Brett McGurk, Council on Foreign Relations (Moderator)

· Click here to view part 2 of the symposium

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