Misunderstandings of the Classified Information Procedures Act (CIPA), and confusions between CIPA and the state secrets doctrine, have resulted in a split in federal circuit courts over how CIPA functions. Congress should amend the statute to end this confusion and enhance its original goals—to enable discovery to protect a defendant’s rights and to protect intelligence… Continue reading Discovering the Artichoke: How Mistakes & Omissions Have Blurred the Enabling Intent of the Classified Information Procedures Act
Category: Vol. 7 No. 1
Legal Review | In JNSLP 7:1, authors discuss several aspects of the legal review of national security matters, including cyberwar, classification, and counterterrorism policy. The series on Teaching National Security Law continues with an article on how military law schools train client-ready lawyers.
Developing Client-Ready Practitioners: Learning How to Practice National Security Law at Military Law Schools
The demand for trained and educated national security lawyers, including those in the military, is not going to lessen. The challenge is to meet the increasing demand with shrinking resources. The military services must first identify national security law as a core, mission-essential discipline. The services should integrate the joint and perhaps inter-agency legal community… Continue reading Developing Client-Ready Practitioners: Learning How to Practice National Security Law at Military Law Schools
Harmonizing Policy & Principle: A Hybrid Model for Counterterrorism
This article explores the tension between the policy objectives of United States counterterrorism efforts (deterrence, incapacitation, and intelligence gathering) and the traditional legal frameworks used to justify them (the law of war and the criminal justice model). All three branches of government, the author urges, have worked at cross-purposes in developing a counterterrorism policy that… Continue reading Harmonizing Policy & Principle: A Hybrid Model for Counterterrorism