At one time reading Aryeh Neier’s 1979 seminal work of legal ethics, Defending My Enemy: American Nazis, the Skokie Case, and the Risks of Freedom, was de rigueur for young lawyers. Given recent events...
This week I received the just-released paperback version of Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Charlie Savage’s 2015 best-seller, Power Wars: The Relentless Rise of Presidential Authority and Secrecy from the publisher. With some important caveats,...
Does everyone have a constitutional right to be in the military? Are the legal issues associated with gays and lesbians serving openly in the military exactly the same as those concerning inducting transgender people? ...
Over on War on the Rocks I have a new essay entitled “Is the Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapons Immoral?” that discusses the new UN-brokered Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Among other things, the treaty...
At the Aspen Security Forum last week, I asked CIA Director Mike Pompeo about what message he might have for young people considering a career in government. His response was insightful…and amusing. Here’s the...
Recently a reporter sent me a link to a new article by my friend Phil Carter entitled “Unpresidential Command” which references my “Coup of 2012” essay from several decades back (1992). The reporter said...
May I invite you to take a look at a just-published post over on Just Security entitled “There Is Much More to a Civilian Casualty Investigation than Eyewitness Accounts”? It’s a response to a...
When the press reaches out for a diversity of views on controversial issues, it’s something to cheer about. Consequently, when Merrit Kennedy, a reporter for NPR, contacted me yesterday about a new Amnesty International report, “At...
If you believe headline writers for Slate, the obstruction of justice case against Donald Trump is “Open and Shut” and is “already a slam dunk.” However, the author of the essay behind those headlines...
The recent shootdown of a Syrian Su-22 fighter-bomber by a U.S. Navy F/A-18E Super Hornet is causing some consternation in the legal community because of the assumption that the action was taken solely to...
As early as this morning, the Supreme Court may issue orders in the travel ban litigation. I believe Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg ought to recuse herself from these cases, but supporters of the ban...
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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