Today the Air Force celebrates its 75th anniversary, and there is much to celebrate…but also much for concern. First the good news: virtually every survey shows that the U.S. Air Force is rated as...
Today’s post comes to us from Professor Tom C.W. Lin of Temple University’s Beasley School of Law. His Lawfire® essay draws from his recent 64-page law review article, “Business Warfare,” (available here) and it...
Today’s guest post is by a favorite Lawfire® contributor and popular LENS conference speaker Adam Oler, who gives us a sober assessment of international justice. He traces its history–and notes the high points–but also...
Labor Day is, as the Department of Labor notes, “an annual celebration of the social and economic achievements of American workers.” Every worker is celebrated to include, I would submit, those whose “work” is...
Today I’m pleased to introduce a new contributor to Lawfire: U.S. Army judge advocate, MAJ Alec Rice – and he has some very interesting ideas and nuanced analysis to share with us. MAJ Rice fears...
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...
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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