This is the second part of our series about the four Duke Law students who were competitively-selected for intern/externships with the military legal community this past summer. (Part I is found here) As I...
This past week Duke Law welcomed a new class of first year students (called “1Ls”). It’s a lot of fun to hear about their varied backgrounds and interests as they begin their legal education....
China’s bellicose reaction to U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan has significantly increased tensions in the area. Earlier this week China’s ambassador to the U.S. complained that Amercian military activities...
Lawfire® readers may recall that four Duke Law students were competitively-selected for intern/externships with the military legal community this past summer. They worked with uniformed lawyers (judge advocates called “JAGs”) and civilian attorneys, along...
Today’s post is by retired Marine Corps colonel Mike Samarov, and he grapples with a very serious national security issue: the Army’s recruiting crisis. Here are some key facts and figures from a recent...
Today’s guest post is by Army judge advocate LTC Alex Kostin (writing in his personal capacity). He argues for accountability for the atrocities allegedly committed in Ukraine by the Russian military company, the Wagner...
Today’s post in another installment in Lawfire’s® mini-series on the airstrike that killed Ayman al-Zawahiri. In this essay Georgetown Law professor Mitt Regan analyses the potential impact of al-Zawahiri’s death on al-Qaeda and, in turn,...
Today’s guest post is by Dr. Dave Johnson, a retired Army colonel and a principal researcher at the RAND corporation who you may remember from his post last May on the war in Ukraine (an essay...
Today’s post is the second installment of Lawfire’s® mini-series about the airstrike that killed Ayman al-Zawahiri. In yesterday’s post, I gave you some “shortbursts” on my view of a number of legal issues raised...
This is the first of several posts that aim to give you perspectives on some of the law applicable to the airstrike that killed Ayman al-Zawahiri. My post today offers some quick “shortbursts” on...
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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