State Department’s Harold Koh to blog on legality of bin Laden raid

The Obama administration has been notably terse about the legal foundation for last month’s raid that killed Osama bin Laden. I’ve argued here that the most vexing legal question is not the specific conduct of U.S. forces or U.S. domestic law but whether the raid was compatible with the U.N. Charter’s restrictions on the use ...

By , a professor at Indiana University’s Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies.

The Obama administration has been notably terse about the legal foundation for last month's raid that killed Osama bin Laden. I've argued here that the most vexing legal question is not the specific conduct of U.S. forces or U.S. domestic law but whether the raid was compatible with the U.N. Charter's restrictions on the use of force. It appears the administration may be willing to open up a bit more on its view of the raid's legal foundations.   State Department legal advisor Harold Koh will be guest blogging on the issue at Opinio Juris tomorrow. Stay tuned.

The Obama administration has been notably terse about the legal foundation for last month’s raid that killed Osama bin Laden. I’ve argued here that the most vexing legal question is not the specific conduct of U.S. forces or U.S. domestic law but whether the raid was compatible with the U.N. Charter’s restrictions on the use of force. It appears the administration may be willing to open up a bit more on its view of the raid’s legal foundations.   State Department legal advisor Harold Koh will be guest blogging on the issue at Opinio Juris tomorrow. Stay tuned.

David Bosco is a professor at Indiana University’s Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies. He is the author of The Poseidon Project: The Struggle to Govern the World’s Oceans. Twitter: @multilateralist

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