Should retired servicemembers receiving pay be subject to court-martial jurisdiction? I do, and I respectfully disagree with my friend Steve Vladeck’s argument in his recent post, “The Supreme Court and Military Jurisdiction Over Retired...
We all want the FBI to be tough on criminals, and to avoid putting themselves in unnecessary jeopardy as they perform their often difficult and dangerous duties. But should there be reasonable limits to...
With the announcement last week that thousands of additional troops will be sent to the border to help surveil the “vast areas” between ports entry, it will be interesting to see if we again...
In a January 25th op-ed posted on Bloomberg, Yale Law professor Stephen Carter raised issues about the lawfulness of the raid by U.S. Navy SEALS that killed Osama Bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan in 2011. Professor...
On January 1st a variety of significant modifications to the Uniform Code of Military Justice (or “UCMJ” codified at 10 U.S.C. § 801, et. seq.) became effective, but one thing that did not change...
Today we honor a true hero of American history, civil rights icon Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. In my mind, his “I Have a Dream” speech is the one of the most inspirational pieces of...
Registration is now open for Duke Law’s Center on Law, Ethics and National Security (LENS) 24th Annual National Security Law Conference! It’s set for Friday, 22 Feb and Saturday morning, 23 Feb here at the Law School. The Conference networking...
Yesterday (January 5th) I had the honor of commissioning William May and Kara Iskenderian as First Lieutenants (1Lt) in the U.S. Air Force. Both of these wonderful new officers are Class of 2018 Duke...
A very wide range of national and, really, international security issues confronted the U.S. and the world in 2018, and Lawfire® readers got a unique perspective on many of them. Here are the top ten...
I just wanted to send you a quick note to ask you to mark your calendars for the 24th Annual LENS Conference. It’s shaping up to be our best ever – we have more...
Today’s guest blogger is Maziar Homayounnejad, a PhD student at King’s College London. His essay is a brief synopsis of some research done at King’s College London and South Texas College of Law, on...
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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