“Shortbursts” is an occasional feature of Lawfire® designed to provide quick updates on a variety of matters. Guest speakers! National security law (NSL) has many facets, and when students packed a Duke Law school...
Since Russia’s grotesquely illegal invasion of Ukraine last February, experts have detailed the failures, incompetence, and savagery of its military. In that context, consider this disturbing new report from CNBC: “Since Oct. 10, Russia...
Today is another edition of an occasional feature of Lawfire®, the cross-posting of interesting scholarship from other sources. Today’s essay by Duke University professor David Schanzer is republished with his permission from his Substack site, Perilous...
Can a person identified as a journalist or political commentator who nevertheless spreads hateful propaganda and disinformation be legally targeted in war? That is one of many questions to be considered following the recent...
Today’s post is by Lawfire® contributor Robert Haddick who grapples with a very challenging issue: China’s naval capabilities. In particular, he addresses the “ambiguous legal status of China’s maritime militia, coast guard, and commercial...
Do you know what CRISPR is? If not, today’s post is a must for you as new Lawfire®contributor Meredith Primrose Jones explains how if weaponized this technology could present an extraordinarily dangerous threat. At...
Today I am extremely pleased to introduce a new contributor to Lawfire®, Squadron Leader (Sqn Ldr) Tara Brown of the Royal Air Force. Sgn Ldr Brown is currently working towards her PhD while teaching at...
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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