ICYMI: Most viewed Lawfire posts of 2024 (and much, much more!)
2024 has been a busy (and interesting!) year! Today’s post takes a look at some Lawfire® highlights starting with a “baker’s dozen” of the most viewed posts of the past 12 months. As you can see, many of them are from earlier years which suggests that the analysis you read here has staying power – which is exactly what I hoped for this blog!
- Yes, the raid that killed Osama Bin Laden was lawful, 31 Jan 2019.
Should retired generals and admirals be organizing into partisan groups to influence the election?, 18 Oct 2024.
- Were Confederate soldiers tried for treason?, 11 July 2020.
- Guest Post: Chuck Pede asks “Firing the Army chief prosecutor–is this what independence looks like?” 14 Dec 2023.
- Yes, there is consensus that ‘lawfare’ exists…but America still needs a strategy for it, 23 Sept 2021.
- Memorial Day: Honoring those who gave up two lives, 28 May 2018.
Some additional 2024 posts that may be of interest:
ABA Conference 2024
- LENS opens door for Duke Law students to expand understanding and networking in the national security arena, 16 Nov 2024.
- So you want to be a law professor? Some advice for those transition from (military) practitioner to legal academic (Part 1), 21 Aug 2024; (Part 2 here and Part 3 here)
- Guest Post: Brian Cox on the “Numerate Hostage Rescue and the LOAC Proportionality Rule”, 10 Aug 2024.
Some 2024 podcasts:
- Podcast: “Maritime Law and Global Security, 29 May 2024.
- Podcast: “Business and American National Security: A Conversation with SEC Commissioner Caroline Crenshaw, 21 May 2024.
- Podcast: an interview with General (Ret) Frank McKenzie, USMC, about high command and war in the 21st Century, 12 Aug 2024.
Podcast with Gen. McKenzie
2024 Additions to the LENS Essay Series:
As many of you know, starting in 2020 the Center on Law, Ethics and National Security (LENS) has hosted the LENS Essay Series where we publish top essays from students taking national/international security-related courses here at Duke Law. Here are the 2024 additions:
- Madison Cash, Uploading Culture: Navigating the International Humanitarian Legal Framework Governing Cultural Property in the Metaverse, No. 28, May 2, 2024.
- Anighya H.D. Crocker, Curtailing the Executive Emergency Powers: Congress’s Job, the Judiciary’s Headache, No. 27, Apr. 11, 2024.
- Casey J. Witte, “From the Halls of Montezuma: The Promise and Pitfalls of Designating Mexican Drug Cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations,“ No. 26, Apr. 5, 2024.
- Katherine K. French, “Reviving the Right to Rescue: Analyzing International Law on the Use of Force for Hostage Rescue in the 21st Century,“ No. 25, Mar. 27, 2024.
- Cole Horton, Bomb Thy Neighbor: How U.S. Military Force Against Mexican Drug cartels in Self-Defense Violate International Law, No. 24, Mar. 6, 2024.
- Riley Flewelling, Mind the Gap? Jus ad Bellum and Jus in Bello in the Era of Hybrid Warfare, No. 23, Feb. 20, 2024.
- Andrew Parco, Through a New Lens: Using Vitoria’s Work to Recontextualize Economic Sanctions and the Use of Force, No. 22, Feb. 7, 2024.
Remember what we like to say on Lawfire®: gather the facts, examine the law, evaluate the arguments – and then decide for yourself!
Can you help support LENS? (learn more here)
Here’s how you can donate:
The easiest way to donate is online through Duke’s secure giving website: https://www.gifts.duke.edu/law?designation=3991358.
You can also mail a check to the Duke Law Alumni & Development Office, 210 Science Drive, Box 90389, Durham, NC 27701. Please write “LENS Center” on the memo line. If you would like to learn about additional ways you can make an impact on our students and support the LENS Center, please contact Halley House at halley.house@law.duke.edu
Don’t forget to mark you calendar for 2025!
