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...
Concerned about the relationship between the law and autonomous weapons? So is today’s guest blogger, Zhanna Malekos Smith. Zhanna joined the Center on Law, Ethics, and National Security (LENS) and the Duke Center on...
Recently Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis was asked to clarify what the new “Cabinet Order” meant for the use of force by troops at the border, and he explained with this example: “If someone’s...
Interested in how artificial intelligence (AI) and the law will operate together (or not) in future conflicts? If so, then today’s guest post is exactly what you are looking for! U.S. Army judge...
I was privileged to serve on the Legal Issues Confronting the Military National Security Law Community panel at the ABA 28th Annual Review of the Field of National Security Law CLE Conference in early...
Last week a panel was presented at Duke Law that was supposed to address “Texas Borders and Immigration Policies” but wound up being mostly a polemic against efforts to secure the border, and included...
The Trump administration’s newly-designated Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker has been met with disapproval in some quarters because of his pre-appointment statements criticizing aspects of the ongoing investigation by Special Counsel Robert Mueller. Consequently,...
One of our favorite activities here at Lawfire is to track the national security-related careers of those with a Duke Law connection. We’ve looked at former students students who are now military lawyers –...
I have much agreement with my friend Mark Nevitt’s excellent post addressing some of the issues associated with the use of the military at the border. Unfortunately, in his essay he relies upon the...
How should we battle “digital” threats that are proliferating online? On October 18th Duke Law students and other guests heard some of the answers when the Center on Law, Ethics and National Security hosted a discussion...
What’s America coming to? Just yesterday we were shocked by the horrific massacre in a Pittsburgh synagogue that was allegedly perpetrated by Robert Bowers, a person whose anti-Semitism was so virulent and pervasive that,...
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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