Today we introduce a new contributor, retired Air Force judge advocate Colonel Pete Marksteiner, who offers a philosophical and practical perspective on the ongoing controversy about the military’s anti-drug smuggling maritime operations. Pete’s essay...
Recent U.S. military strikes on boats allegedly loaded with illicit drugs (typically killing everyone on board) have caused discussions around dinner tables and in classrooms, in the U.S. and around the world. Most pundits charge...
I was pleased to join journalist Ben Wolfgang‘s terrific “Threat Status” podcast last week (co-host Guy Taylor wasn’t able to join the discussion). As Ben says, we talked “about the legal questions swirling around...
Today Professor Brandon Garrett joins us with his thoughtful review of Orin Kerr’s recent book “The Digital Fourth Amendment: Privacy and Policing in Our Online World.” Brandon is one Duke Law’s and, really, the...
Today we continue with our series from our 29th Annual National Security Law Conference with podcast of the presentation by Major Melissa Ken, USAF, on “Protecting Constitutional Rights in Domestic Terrorism Cases”. Maj Ken...
Mexican drug cartels present a deadly threat to thousands Americans by trafficking fentanyl and other lethal poisons into the U.S. A number of steps have been taken against the cartels, but should the U.S.....
Last July a story in the Washington Post headlined “The war in Ukraine is spurring a revolution in drone warfare using AI” and went on to explain that: “The design and software innovations, as...
Is the Pentagon acting reasonably if, as the New York Times alleges, it is “blocking the Biden administration from sharing evidence” with the International Criminal Court (“ICC”)? Based on news reports, it seems that...
Today’s podcast is the latest installment of our series from our 28th Annual National Security Law Conference with a terrific presentation on international criminal justice by popular Lawfire® contributor and LENS conference favorite Adam...
It is a truism that everyone wants perpetrators of war crimes held accountable, and no one debates that victims of these terrible offenses deserve justice. That said, to what extent are U.S. courts the...
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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