Today’s essay furthers our discussion of the downing of the Chinese High-Altitude Balloon (HAB) begun last week with the post , “The Chinese balloon shoot-down and the Law: some observations” In this new essay...
Today’s guest post digs into the legal issues surrounding yesterday’s shoot-down over U.S. territorial waters of a Chinese high altitude balloon (HAB). Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin says this HAB was “being used by...
Today’s post by Army judge advocate Major Alec Rice alerts us to formidable security concerns occasioned by seemingly benign Chinese real estate and business transactions involving the Japanese island of Hokkaido. Major Rice, a...
I’m pleased to announce that registration is now open for Duke’s 28th Annual National Security Law Conference presented by Duke Law’s Center on Law, Ethics and National Security (LENS). Because seats are very limited, please...
In today’s post Navy CDR Tracy Reynolds, speaking in her personal capacity, educates us about the risk to the rules based international order the U.S. and the international community face as China’s ambitions –...
Today I am very pleased to introduce another new Lawfire®contributor, Major Alec Rice, of the U.S. Army’s Judge Advocate General Corps. Writing in his personal capacity, Major Rice explains to us the history and...
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...
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...
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...
One of the notable aspects of the Ukraine war is the support Russia is getting from China. In fact, it is hard to see how Russia could continue the war without China’s support. How...
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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