Today my friend, Professor Laurie Blank of Emory University School of Law treats us (and especially law students!) to an insider’s perspective as to what it takes to succeed in the U.S. Department of...
If you’re in search of a new perspective on the role war plays in our lives, this book review is for you! Lawfire® contributor Dr. Ken Raffa reviews the military historian Richard Overy’s ‘Why...
Given recent headlines, you might be asking yourself how much you knew about the law of naval mines. If the answer is “not enough” today’s post is for you. Retired Navy captain (and popular...
I am very pleased to welcome back Lawfire® contributor and LENS Conference participant, Dr. Aurel Sari. Dr. Sari is a very highly-respected international law expert, and one of the world’s top authorities on the...
I am pleased to tell you that today’s post marks the return of David Maxwell to Lawfire®. Dave is one of the nation’s top authorities on North Korea, and he has fresh ideas for...
One of the key purposes of Lawfire® is to get relevant scholarship into the hands of practitioners as soon as possible, and today I’m pleased to tell you we are doing just that. In...
During their 1L summer Duke Law students do internships in a wide variety of legal offices, but my terrific research assistant, Léa Frenkel, had a rather unusual one. She served as the only American...
In today’s post Lawfire® contributor Brian Cox does a deep dive into the oft-misunderstood proportionality rule in the Law of Armed Conflict (LOAC). He examines proportionality in the context of reports about the recent...
Today’s post by popular contributor Prof Raul (Pete) Pedroso is one of increasing importance as apparently there are those who are seeking to exploit sunken warship sites for commercial purposes, irrespective of the environmental...
Corrected link (I hope!) Today Graham Todd debuts a new guest contributor with an in-depth review of Andrew Krepinevich’s The Origins of Victory: How Disruptive Military Innovations Determine the Fates of Great Powers. This...
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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