Last week Brad Smith, Microsoft’s President and Chief Legal officer, announced that 34 technology companies signed the “Cybersecurity Tech Accord.” While attempting to address cybersecurity issues is laudable, this is not the way to...
The deployment of up to 4,000 National Guard troops to the southern border has garnered not just political controversy, but also discussion about the applicable law. For example, can Governor Jerry Brown restrict California National Guard troops...
Yesterday military forces of the U.S., France, and Great Britain struck targets involved in Syria’s chemical weapons program. As I’ve often said, any use of force carries serious risks of unintended consequences, but this...
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is being grilled by Congress this week over his company’s privacy policies, as well as its broader responsibilities as a communications and information platform for some 2.13 billion users worldwide....
I have to disagree with the essay (“The Downsides of Bombing Syria”) authored by my friends, professors Jack Goldsmith and Oona Hathaway, in which they insist that a possible U.S. strike in response to the recent...
One of the hottest topics these days in the law of war is the increasing autonomy in weaponry. We are not yet seeing (and may never see) the emergence of a “Terminator” robot, but...
This week I attended a terrific conference sponsored by the Modern War Institute at the U.S. Military Academy entitled “Blurred Lines: Civil-Military Relations and Modern War.” One of the issues my panel aimed to...
Late last year CNN reported that opioid-involved deaths (42,249) now exceed the number of deaths from breast cancer (41,000). Both statistics are grim ones, but the losses to opioids are especially frustrating because they...
Yesterday the British Prime Minister Theresa May stated that “it was highly likely that Russia was responsible” for the March 4th poisoning attack on a former Russian spy and his daughter in Salisbury, England. ...
A little more than a week ago an excellent Vox article recounted how North Korea is using “bitcoin to get around US sanctions” – a report that comes on the heels of others indicating...
Over on The Hill I have a new essay entitled “Want to save teens? Driving restrictions could save at least as many lives as gun control” in which I argue for teen driving restrictions...
Charles J. Dunlap Jr., the former deputy judge advocate general of the United States Air Force, joined the Duke Law faculty in July 2010 where he is a professor of the practice of law and Executive Director of the Center on Law, Ethics and National Security.
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