According to Senator Mitch McConnell, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act) reflects “a wartime level of investment into our nation.” Obviously, the $2 trillion cost of the stimulus legislation is...
Today’s podcast is by my friend, Mary-Rose Papandrea, the Samuel Ashe Distinguished Professor of Constitutional Law and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the University of North Carolina School of Law. This podcast is...
Today’s guest post is from Maj. Chase Gunnell of the law faculty at the U.S. Air Force Academy. Chase grapples with the implications of the recent decision by the International Criminal Court (ICC) to...
Dear Lawfire®subscribers, It’s come to my attention that my effort to work remotely might not have operated perfectly for you as apparently the normal email notice for new Lawfire® posts did not go out...
With rattled governors calling out the National Guard, politicians demanding the mobilization of the military, pundits characterizing the coronavirus emergency as a national security threat, analysts claiming that “battling a pandemic is a job...
The U.S. military welcomes women who volunteer to serve in the infantry, but does the Constitution require the government to be ready to conscript unwilling women to serve in ground combat roles even if...
Today’s post is an extremely important one as it gives us the often hard-to-get warfighter’s perspective on the much-discussed topic of ‘“lawfare” and legal operations. Air Force Maj. Gen. Barre R. Seguin is the...
Today’s podcast, from our recently-completed 25th Anniversary National Security Law Conference, is by Dr. Aurel Sari, one of the world’s top experts on the legal aspects of what many are calling “grey zone” or...
Today’s guest post is a special one as we have not only the podcast of Prof Mark Nevitt’s fascinating presentation on “Climate Change and National Security” at our recently-completed 25th Anniversary National Security Law...
At our 25th Annual National Security Law Conference we were honored to have LTG Charles “Chuck” Pede, the U.S. Army’s Judge Advocate General, as our speaker at the conference dinner. We are pleased to...
Few topics are more controversial than offensive cyber operations, so we were thrilled to have Professor Mike Schmitt address that topic in his keynote address for our 25th Annual National Security Law Conference last...
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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