Horrified by the tragic death of George Floyd, Americans showed widespread agreement about the need for serious police reform. But how should it proceed? How can we avoid having the best of intentions go...
In a speech Monday evening, President Trump declared “All Americans were rightly sickened and revolted by the brutal death of George Floyd” and said he was “mobilizing all available, federal resources, civilian and military,...
Today’s guest post is from Maj. Chase Gunnell of the law faculty at the U.S. Air Force Academy. Chase grapples with the implications of the recent decision by the International Criminal Court (ICC) to...
In the American Bar Association (ABA) Journal, Kristen Smith argues “The case for the International Criminal Court: Why it deserves our support.” She highlights the merits of the ICC, and while she does note...
Last week the President took some controversial actions in several military justice cases and – as is so often is the case these days – the press doesn’t get the story quite right. For...
Everyone is rightly concerned about the dangers extremists can pose, but the post (“Addressing the National Security Threat of White Supremacist Terrorism”) by Jonathan Greenblatt and George Selim, two officials of the Anti-Defamation League...
As discussed elsewhere, the House Intelligence Committee’s impeachment investigation’s subpoena for Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani is reminiscent of the ‘get-it from-the-lawyer’ tactic Robert Mueller so successfully used in his Russia investigation. Are we...
In his Just Security post, “18 Years After 9/11, We Face a New International Terrorist Threat,” Georgetown law professor Joshua Geltzer argues for a well-intended but ultimately misguided approach to countering what he describes...
Today’s post is by Shane Stansbury, the Robinson Everett Distinguished Fellow in the Center for Law, Ethics, and National Security (LENS) and a Senior Lecturing Fellow, here at Duke. He’s urging a renewal of...
Do you have questions about the pardon of former Army First Lieutenant Michael Behenna who was accused of killing a prisoner in Iraq? In a recent essay (“What Questions Is the Pentagon Avoiding?“) Just...
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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