Duke Law is increasingly becoming the destination school for those interested in serving as a military lawyer (called a “judge advocate” or JAG). As I’ve noted before, the legal practice of JAGs is quite...
With the President’s announcement of the formation of a Space Force, renewed attention has arisen about the law applicable to military space operations. John Goehring is a major in the Air Force Reserve who is involved...
Late breaking news: unfortunately, due to complications arising from the severe weather in this area, we have to postpone this event. We’ll let you know when its rescheduled. Apologies for any inconvenience! This coming...
Last week as most Americans were remembering Senator John McCain’s lifetime of service, a Duke professor was busy penning an op-ed in which she groused that while people were lauding McCain’s life, they also were,...
When Senator John McCain died yesterday at 81 after a courageous but ultimately losing battle against an especially vicious form of brain cancer, America lost one of the greatest figures in our history. Others...
At the end of World War II, some ten million current and former members of Nazi Germany’s and Imperialist Japan’s armed forces survived the conflict. Indeed, some Germans fought on for months, and the...
At the Present and Future of Airpower conference at the Institute for the Study of War and Strategy at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland last May, I spoke with Chrome360’s Catriona Oliphant...
In this morning’s Washington Times there’s a report about the drone attack on Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. As the Times accurately points out, “the video of panicked security officers breaking ranks to escape the...
What sort of legal work are military lawyers (called judge advocates or “JAGs”) doing in deployed areas like Afghanistan? Actually, lots of different things, and two terrific Air Force JAGs with Duke Law connections recently updated...
What does some tough public criticism and an employee climate survey showing confidence concerns about its leadership mean for the FBI’s job performance? Will it decline as bloggers Scott Anderson and Ben Wittes suggest...
At the Aspen Security Forum this week, FBI Director Christopher Wray characterized China “from a counterintelligence perspective” as representing “in many ways” the “broadest, most challenging, most significant threat we face as a country.” ...
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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