Targeted Killing

Radsan and Murphy, The Evolution of Law and Policy for CIA Targeted Killing, ___ JNSLP ___, (1/20/2012).
Podcast of 1/27/11 discussion on "the legal limits and policy considerations of unmanned aerial vehicles in the War on Terror" by Mr. Ben Wizner, Litigation Director, National Security Project, American Civil Liberties Union and Prof. Michael W. Lewis, Ohio Northern University Pettit College of Law, sponsored by The Federalist Society. Works best to tight-click here, download the file, and listen to it in your own media player from your hard drive. Podcast is 46 minutes long, and the file is 53 megabytes in size. More info from the event is at this link.
Law and Policy of Targeted Killing - an article by two Harvard Law School professors.
U.S. House of Representatives hearing on 03-23-2010 - National Security - "Rise of the Drones: Unmanned Systems and the Future of War"

Panel I

Peter W. Singer, Ph.D., Director, 21 Century Initiative, The Brookings Institution

Edward Barrett, Ph.D., Director of Research, Stockdale Center for Ethical Leadership, US Naval Academy

Mr. Kenneth Anderson, Professor, Washington College of Lwa, American University

Mr. John Jackson, Professor of Unmanned Systems, U.S. Naval War College

Mr. Michael Fagan (Colonel, USMC Ret.), Chair, Unmanned Aerial Systems Advocacy Committee

Panel II

Mr. Michael J. Sullivan, Director, Acquisition and Sourcing Management, US Government Accountability Office

Mr. Dyke Weatherington (Lt. Col., USAF Ret.), Deputy, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Planning Taskforce, Office of the Under Secretary for Acquisition, US Department of Defense

The Honorable Kevin Wolf, Assistant Secretary for Export Administration, Bureau of Industry and Security, US Department of Commerce

U.S. House of Representatives Hearing on 04-28-2010 "Rise of the Drones II: Examining the Legality of Unmanned Targeting"

Witnesses:

Professor Michael W. Lewis, Ohio Northern University Pettit College of Law

Professor Keith Anderson, Washington College of Law, American University

Professor Mary Ellen O'Connell, University of Notre Dame Law School

Professor David Glazier, Loyola Law School Los Angeles

Professor William Banks, Syracuse University College of Law

Fact sheet on Predator.
The RQ-Predator is a hunter/killer unmanned aircraft system. (U.S. Air Force illustration)
Armed Reaper in flight

A MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aircraft prepares to land after a mission supporting Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan. The Reaper has the ability to carry both precision-guided bombs and air-to-ground missiles. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Brian Ferguson)
Armed Reaper

A fully armed MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicle taxis down the runway at an air base in Afghanistan on its way to another wartime mission. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Brian Ferguson)
Reaper at Syracuse, NY, Air National Guard Base.
Do Drones Undermine Democracy?, N.Y. Times, 1/21/12. [Also in PDF format, here, for registered members of course, only.]