“Shorbursts” is a Lawfire®occasional feature that aims to give you a quick volley of info on a number of items: LENS Essay wins a national award! Some great news! Mark Rothrock’s terrific essay, “All’s...
“Shorbursts” is a Lawfire®occasional feature that aims to give you a quick volley of info on a number of items: Civil-Military Relations podcast: I had the pleasure of participating in a panel discussion about...
How easy is it for a soldier to navigate the educational process on some of the nation’s most liberal campuses? Today’s guest writer can tell us as she is a graduate of Wellesley College...
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...
For most Americans Memorial Day this year will be different. Many of those who might have wanted to pay tribute by visiting Arlington and other military cemeteries won’t be able to do so since...
Since the COVID-19 pandemic forced almost all law schools to suddenly switch to online classes, the question arises as to whether or not this radical revision of a traditional law school pedagogy represents...
Thinking about your summer (or, perhaps, your “lockdown”) reading and listening plans? Consider this stark warning from legendary Marine general and former Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis: “[T]here’s no substitute for constant study to...
With COVID-19 dominating the news these days, we can sometimes forget there are young Americans deployed ‘downrange’ for the fight against the still-dangerous Islamic State remnants – and to stand guard against Iran and...
At our 25th Annual National Security Law Conference we were honored to have LTG Charles “Chuck” Pede, the U.S. Army’s Judge Advocate General, as our speaker at the conference dinner. We are pleased to...
How does the U.S. ensure that the weapons and defense services it provides allies and partners will be used in a way consistent with U.S. and international law, not to mention America’s values? Moreover,...
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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