Today’s post is Part II of our consideration as to whether there are limits to the kind of weapons Americans have a right “to keep and bear” under the Second Amendment. In Part I...
Are there limits to the kinds of weapons Americans have a right “to keep and bear” under the Second Amendment? In an important new case, Miller v. Bonta, Judge Roger T. Benitez of the...
Do we want the energies of America’s ‘national security’ enterprise to focus on the increasing dangers from foreign state and non-state adversaries, or do we want it to concentrate on criminality traditionally the province...
“Shortbursts” is a occasional feature of Lawfire® that aims to bring you up to date with bursts of information on a variety of topics and/or advise you of a happening you may find of...
Today’s guest post is the second in a series by Air Force lieutenant colonel Charles J. Gartland, who is the Law Chair Director at the U.S. Air Force Judge Advocate General’s School. Lt Col...
Today’s post is by Lawfire® regular, Cornell Law’s Brian L. Cox, but before we get to his superb essay, let’s discuss the broader context of the underlying issue. As mentioned last week in introducing...
Given the President’s announced withdrawal from Afghanistan, Memorial Day this year has special poignancy. The holiday does commemorate all servicemembers who have fallen, but in light of the announcement, one cannot help but to...
As many Lawfire® readers know, there is a controversial proposal in Congress to radically change the Uniform Code of Military Justice by outsourcing to staff legal officers key aspects of what historically has been the...
Today we continue our examination of the International Committee of the Red Cross’ (ICRC) new stance on autonomous weapons with an essay by my friend, Richmond Law’s Dr. Rebecca Crootof. (You may recall...
As Lawfire® readers know from a previous post (“Can troops be ordered to take a COVID vaccine? A guest post analyzes the law“) there is a clear legal path for the Secretary of Defense,...
President Biden has announced that all U.S. troops and other personnel will withdraw, without conditions, from Afghanistan by September 11th. Although the decision, we are told, was contrary to military advice, the purpose of...
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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