Monday’s announcement by the Congressional Budget Office that President Biden’s student loan ‘forgiveness’ program will cost a whopping $400 billion has left many commentators aghast. Curious as to how this will harm national security?...
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...
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...
June 14 is Flag Day, but my sense is that many Americans are not as familiar with it as they should be. I strongly urge you to read the President Biden’s Proclamation set out...
Today we commemorate one of the most important events of World War II: D-Day. 78 years ago thousands of U.S. and Allied troops stormed the beaches of Normandy to liberate Europe and to end...
Although Memorial Day is “a national observance on the last Monday in May to honor those who sacrificed their lives while serving in the U.S. Armed Forces,” it arrives this year in the midst...
According to the UN, the Ukraine war has generated 1.5 million refugees, making it the “fastest growing refugee crisis since World War II.” My bet is that there will be thousands and maybe millions...
Today’s post is another in our series for law students and new lawyers who have an interest in national (and, really, global) security matters, and who are thinking about how best to get involved...
Being branded an “extremist” today will likely devastate someone’s life. But should this always be the case? Let’s consider what Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., whose birthday we celebrate on Monday, said when he...
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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