In today’s post we re-publish a column by our friend Dawn Zoldi who has graciously permitted us to do so. As you will see, Dawn – who is one of the nation’s foremost experts...
Today’s post in another installment in Lawfire’s® mini-series on the airstrike that killed Ayman al-Zawahiri. In this essay Georgetown Law professor Mitt Regan analyses the potential impact of al-Zawahiri’s death on al-Qaeda and, in turn,...
“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...
In the aftermath of the terrible consequences of the errant drone strike in Afghanistan, a number of writers have questioned the future of drone warfare. I am not among them as I believe the...
Today’s post is something of a follow-up to our recent discussion about the U.S. airstrikes on the drone capabilities of Iranian-backed militias (see here). Professor Hitoshi Nasu of the University of Exeter examines the...
Yesterday President Biden ordered airstrikes on what the Pentagon described as “operational and weapons storage facilities at two locations in Syria and one location in Iraq” in order to ”disrupt and deter” an “ongoing...
Yesterday Duke’s Center on Law, Ethics and National Security (LENS) completed its 26th Annual LENS National Security Law Conference. Conducted virtually, the conference garnered–by far–our largest number of registrants ever. That’s no surprise due...
Registration for Duke’s Center on Law, Ethics and National Security’s (LENS) Annual National Security Law conference is smashing all our records, and we are expecting the largest number of attendees in our 26-year history. ...
Today’s post is by my friend and popular LENS conference speaker, Mr. Dean Cheng. Dean is a Senior Research Fellow at the Asian Studies Center and the Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign...
Today’s post comes to us from my friend Dawn Zoldi, one of the nation’s top experts on domestic drone law, who gave us an update on the latest developments in domestic drone law at...
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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