Duke Law’s 26th Annual Law, Ethics and National Security (LENS) conference Friday, 26 Feb, and Saturday morning, 27 Feb 2021, will be virtual, but awesome speakers will participate (via Zoom). Registration won’t open until...
Is a recent post Andy Wright, who served in the Obama White House Counsel’s office, worries that the July 9th Supreme Court decision in Trump v. Mazars will operate to “give the attorney-client privilege...
In the aftermath of the drone strike that killed Maj.Gen. Qasem Soleimani, who led the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Force (a U.S.-designated terrorist organization), there were plenty of commentaries about the legality and/or political...
This conference will sell out fast! On February 28-29, the 25th Annual National Security Law Conference of Duke’s Center on Law, Ethics and National Security will take place and you’ll definitely want to be...
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...
What does pacifism mean today? This topic is especially timely because a recent poll in Japan shows that 54% of the public oppose revisions to their “pacifistic” constitution, something that may confound those who...
Want to hear a fresh take on how to handle ethical issues in the national security context? Today’s podcaster Kate Oler can help you think through these difficult issues. She’s currently a Special Master...
What advice from a lawyer is protected by the attorney-client privilege? In the aftermath of the FBI search of the offices of his former personal lawyer Michael Cohen, President Trump tweeted “Attorney-client privilege is...
At our 24th Annual National Security Law Conference we were honored to have Duke Law’s own Prof. Nita Farahany give us a truly awesome presentation about “Neuroscience, Ethics and National Security’.” You can now...
Activists for illegal immigrants often seem to assume that they occupy the ethical high ground. To a degree, that’s true; after all, trying to help those in need is obviously a highly-commendable enterprise. That...
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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