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On Friday February 3 and Saturday February 4th the Santa Clara Law school will host a symposium on International Humanitarian Law.  I will be serving as a moderator for Panel 3.  The full schedule appears below, and more information about the symposium can be found here.

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Collateral Damage in
Combat Operations

A Teleforum Sponsored by the International & National Security Law Practice Group

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

at 3:00 p.m. [...]

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Over at Lawfare I’ve posted a short summary of my collateral damage piece.  You can access the summary here.

To give you a feel for the flavor of the blog post, here is my concluding paragraph:

“Taken together, the CDM process provides predictions about likely effects, and the ROE specifies the decision authority [...]

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Ben Wittes, writing at Lawfare was kind enough to pen a write-up on my empirical paper The U.S. Practice of Collateral Damage Estimation and Mitigation.  I consider this a high honor.  Here is Ben’s take:

Whatever your view of the merits of targeted killing, this article, in my view at least, will [...]

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I’m pleased to announce I am a contributor to the forthcoming book Targeted Killing: Law and Morality in an Asymmetrical World (Oxford 2012).

Here is the Table of Contents:

INTRODUCTION Andrew Altman

PART I: THE CHANGING FACE OF WAR: TARGETING NON-COMBATANTS

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*Lock-up the semester with FedSoc’s Over-Criminalization event: “

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On Friday November 4, 2011 The Florida International Law Review will host their Fall 2011 Symposium.  The topic is What the Future Holds: Balancing Law, Liberty and National Security.  I will be participating in Panel III- Looking Back to Shape the Future: How Foreign Policy will Affect Law, Liberty and National Security.

Here is [...]

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On Tuesday, October 25, 2011 I will be presenting my paper Collateral Damage and Accountability at Santa Clara University School of Law.  The event will take place at noon and is open to the public.

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On Tuesday, October 4th I will be part of a panel at Mercer University School of Law.  The panel discussion will explore the differences between President Obama and President Bush’s national security policies, specifically as they relate to counterterrorism.  Some issues we will explore are:

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In light of the recent news that the CIA has killed al-Awlaki, I thought I’d flag my essay at CATO entitled “The Federal Protective Power and Targeted Killing of U.S. Citizens“

Here is an excerpt:

My reading of the Constitution leads me to believe that there are circumstances when the president may order [...]

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