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Professor Gregory S. McNeal*
Pepperdine University School of Law
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
at 3:00 p.m. [...]
On Thursday, September 15th I will be presenting a paper entitled “Drones, Targeting, and Civilian Casualties” at Loyola University New Orleans- College of Law and at the Louisiana State University- Paul M. Hebert Law Center.
My LA County representative, Zev Yaroslavsky, who has never met a spending project he didn’t like laments the fact that ridership numbers are down on the Dogers Express bus service. He has all kinds of explanations for low ridership: a bad season, the beating of Giants fan Brian Stow, the team owners’ divorce, [...]
The Global Commission on Drug Policy has released their report in which they declare the war on drugs (in America and around the world) a failure. In their words:
The global war on drugs has failed, with devastating consequences for individuals and societies around the world. Fifty years after the initiation of [...]
I’ve posted to SSRN (http://bit.ly/collateraldamage1) the abstract for my piece entitled The U.S. Practice of Collateral Damage Estimation and Mitigation. Here are the details:
This paper explains how the U.S. military estimates and mitigates the impact of conventional weapons on collateral persons and objects in most military operations involving air-to-surface weapons and [...]
I’m reposting (with permission) a piece that was just published by Foreign Policy magazine entitled The Bin Laden Aftermath: Why Obama Chose SEALs, Not Drones.
Why did the United States choose to launch a raid against al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, rather than bombing it? It wasn’t because of [...]
I’m very excited about my upcoming participation in a conference at The University of Pennsylvania Law School. The conference is entitled “Using Targeted Killing to Fight the War on Terror: Philosophical, Moral and Legal Challenges.” Here is the intro from the conference web page:
The Obama administration has authorized the CIA to target [...]
DEA chief: Mexico cartels’ reach affects the world:
The Associated Press, 4/5/2011
Countries around the world are concerned about the increasingly global reach of Mexican drug cartels, the head of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration said Tuesday.
The United States is particularly worried about the spread of Los Zetas, a vicious Mexican gang blamed [...]
The U.S. Ambassador to Mexico has resigned after a public dispute with President Felipe Calderon over the handling of the war against Mexico’s powerful drug gangs. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Saturday that she and President Barack Obama had accepted Ambassador Carlos Pascual’s resignation “with great reluctance.”
The announcement came as [...]
Short Biography
Greg McNeal is a professor and national security specialist focusing on the institutions and challenges associated with global security, with substantive expertise in national security law and policy, transnational crime, global policy studies, and international affairs.
He teaches at Pepperdine University's School of Law and School of Public Policy.Recent Posts
- Emerging Issues in International Humanitarian Law: Santa Clara Law
- TELEFORUM- Collateral Damage in Combat Operations 3pm ET TODAY
- Short Summary of Collateral Damage/Targeting Piece Now Posted at Lawfare
- Lawfare on my Targeting and Collateral Damage Article
- Targeted Killing: Law and Morality in an Asymmetrical World
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