Author: Marko Milanovic

In this post I will briefly explain the three (or four) different arguments presented in the Jinks, Goodman and Slaughter amicus brief, and how the Court’s judgment reflects these arguments. These are: (1) Hamdan was captured in the course of the international armed conflict between the United States and Afghanistan. He is arguably entitled to POW status, and the CSRT procedure does...

My thanks to Chris and to the other permanent contributors for inviting me to guest blog here at Opinio Juris. During my first week I'll post on some rather disturbing things I've discovered on the US Supreme Court's decision-making process while I was doing research for a new article of mine, entitled 'Lessons for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law in...