Updated Lawfare Coverage of Legal Issues Regarding Military Action in Syria

By Raffaela Wakeman
Friday, September 6, 2013 at 10:45 AM

Lawfare-ers have been quite prolific in the debate over U.S. intervention in Syria. We thus have updated our compilation of the blog’s Syria coverage.
You can find all of our posts on Syria below, with the most recent posts at the top.

• Ben Wittes, A Word on the Brookings Syria Event from Thursday
• Wells Bennett, Lawfare Podcast Episode #40:  Brookings Event, “Striking Syria? Obama, Congress and Military Action”
• Jack Goldsmith, Manchin/Heitcamp Syria Proposal and the Vienna Convention on Treaties
• Gabriella Blum, Punishing Syria
• Lauren Bateman, Resources on Conflict in Syria from CRS
• Jack Goldsmith, President Obama Seems to (Begin to) Back Away from Decision to Intervene in Syria
• Jack Goldsmith, Dehn on Syria and Humanitarian Intervention
• Jack Goldsmith, More on the UN Charter, Syria, and “Illegal but Legitimate”
• Ken Anderson, Five Fundamental International Law Approaches to the Legality of a Syria Intervention
• Jack Goldsmith, Marty Lederman on the President’s Syria Press Conference, and a Brief Response
• Jack Goldsmith, Two Important Implications from President’s Press Conference in Sweden
• Lauren Bateman, Recent Presidential Remarks on Syria
• Raffaela Wakeman, SFRC Approves Syria Authorization Language
• Jack Goldsmith, Response to Peter Spiro on the Senate’s Syrian AUMF, and a Request for Clarity
• Wells Bennett, Van Hollen/Connolly Draft AUMF
• John Bellinger III, The Obama Administration’s National Security Legal Team
• Jack Goldsmith, The Senate Draft AUMF for Syria is Narrower Than the Administration’s Draft, But Still Broad in Some Respects
• Wells Bennett, Draft SFRC Joint Resolution on Syria
• Wells Bennett, Syria Hearing in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
• Wells Bennett, The Draft AUMF, Congressional Authorization, and the Administration’s Objectives in Syria
• Matt Waxman, Constitutional Power to Threaten War: Three Points on Syria
• Jack Goldsmith, It is Hard to Write an AUMF
• Carrie Cordero, What the 9/11 Commission Report Says About Syria
• Jack Goldsmith, The Potential Relevance of OLC’s Kosovo-War Powers Resolution Opinion to the Syria Debate
• Curt Bradley, War Powers, Syria, and Non-Judicial Precedent
• Jack Goldsmith, Worth Reading on Syria
• Bobby Chesney, A Sunset Clause for the Syria/WMD AUMF?
• Jack Goldsmith, The Administration’s Proposed Syria AUMF Is Very Broad
• Jack Goldsmith, A Quick Primer on AUMFs
• Jack Goldsmith, Obama’s Request to Congress Will Not Hamstring Future Presidents (Except for Some Humanitarian Interventions)
• Ben Wittes, Bruce Riedel on President Obama’s Syria Decision
• Jack Goldsmith, Congratulations President Obama
• Matt Waxman, Restoring the Smeared Red Line
• Jack Goldsmith, British Bow Out of Syria Intervention, USG Plunging Ahead
• Wells Bennett,  UK Parliament Votes Down British Military Action in Syria
• Bobby Chesney, The War Powers Resolution and Using Force in Syria 
• Matt Waxman, Intervention to Stop Atrocities: Kosovo as Predictive
• Jack Goldsmith, Akande on the Legality of Humanitarian Intervention
• John Bellinger III, The UK Legal Position on Humanitarian Intervention in Syria: Kosovo Redux
• Jack Goldsmith, UK Legal Position on Humanitarian Intervention in Syria
• Rick Pildes, Creating New International Law “Justifications” for Using Military Force Against Syria
• Ben Wittes, Vacancies at the Top
• Jack Goldsmith, Hathaway and Shapiro on Syria and the U.N. Charter
• Wells Bennett, Letter From the Speaker of the House to POTUS Regarding Legal Justification for Action in Syria
• Jack Goldsmith, Why Doesn’t President Obama Seek Congressional Approval for Syria?
• Wells Bennett, Two Thoughts on Syria and Kosovo
• Jack Goldsmith, George Friedman on Obama’s Bluff
• Jack Goldsmith, Secretary of State Kerry on UNSCRs and Legality
• Jack Goldsmith, General Dempsey on Syria Intervention
• Rick Pildes, Kosovo, Syria: When it Comes to Military Force, What’s the Proper Relationship Between Law and Political Judgment?
• Jack Goldsmith, More on the Impact of Kosovo + Syria
• Ashley Deeks, The Value of Kosovo as a Non-Legal Precedent
• Jack Goldsmith, How Administration Lawyers Are Probably Thinking About the Constitutionality of the Syria Intervention (and a Note on the Domestic Political Dangers of Intervention)
• Jack Goldsmith, The Kosovo Precedent for Syria Isn’t Much of a Precedent
• Ashley Deeks, Arming Syrian Rebels: Lethal Assistance and International Law
• Ashley Deeks, Chemical Weapons and Syria: Enough to Justify the Use of Force?