I was especially pleased to welcome Brig. Gen. Gail Crawford, the Air Force’s Director of Operations and International Law, as a speaker for our 27th Annual National Security Law Conference this year. Why? I...
This intro to the podcast was written by my colleague, Professor Shane Stansbury, who also moderated the panel: Podcast: “The National Security Challenges of Ransomware and Cryptocurrency” As many readers know, ransomware is a serious...
Recently the President warned business leaders that Russia has “a very sophisticated cyber capability” and “may be planning a cyberattack against us.” I agree, but I also think any such cyber-attack may not necessarily...
Each year U.S. Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM) presents one of the world’s most important legal conferences about developments in cyber operations. If you missed this year’s, I have good news for you: thanks to the...
Today we have a special treat: the written Senate testimony of Shane Stansbury, my colleague at the Center on Law, Ethics and National Security here at Duke Law. In speaking about the about the...
In the latest in our series of posts on the Ukraine crisis, Professor Lee Reiners, executive director of Duke Law’s Global Financial Markets Center, unpacks for us the impact of the sanctions imposed on...
Tolstoy is famously reported as saying “You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.” Immediately before missiles and bombs struck and Russian tanks and troops invaded, a poll suggested...
How can the U.S. and rule-of-law democracies counter increasingly sophisticated and weaponized disinformation? How should they wage “information warfare” during period of putative peace? What are some of the rewards – and risks –...
“Shortbursts” is a occasional feature of Lawfire® that aims to bring you up to date with bursts of information on a variety of topics you may find of interest. In a previous post we highlighted...
Today’s post engages another aspect of our ongoing discussion about the Ukraine crisis: if Russia does invade or otherwise behaves in a way that triggers the sanctions the U.S. and NATO have threatened, what...
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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