In today’s post Mark Nevitt, Associate Professor of Law at Emory University School of Law, expertly addresses news reports about a supposed controversy between the Pentagon and the Interior Department regarding plans for offshore...
Today’s post unpacks for us some of the complexities associated with Finland’s and Sweden’s bid to join NATO. Few are better to undertake this analysis than my friend Butch Bracknell who spent most of...
Security, both fiscal and physical, is a primary need of individuals and countries. With the recent banking crisis, much attention went to that issue and resolutions. Another crisis is happening on a broader scale,...
Today’s guest post by my friend Professor Geoff Corn could not be more timely. He addresses the legal dimension of the U.S.’ strikes following the latest attacks from groups affiliated with Iran against U.S....
Today begins our posting of material from our just-completed 28th Annual National Security Law Conference, and–wow–we are really starting the process the right way with the text of the fantastic address by Lt Gen...
I’m very pleased to tell you that today’s guest post is by Professor Paul Stephan of the University of Virginia School of Law, and as you’ll soon see, he is an authentically fresh thinker....
Today’s essay furthers our discussion of the downing of the Chinese High-Altitude Balloon (HAB) begun last week with the post , “The Chinese balloon shoot-down and the Law: some observations” In this new essay...
Today’s guest post digs into the legal issues surrounding yesterday’s shoot-down over U.S. territorial waters of a Chinese high altitude balloon (HAB). Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin says this HAB was “being used by...
Today’s post by Army judge advocate Major Alec Rice alerts us to formidable security concerns occasioned by seemingly benign Chinese real estate and business transactions involving the Japanese island of Hokkaido. Major Rice, a...
Today I’m pleased to announce a new addition to the LENS Essay Series, and this one is a first: an essay by a Duke Law alumnus! Major Daniel (“Danny”) P. Beaulieu graduated from Duke...
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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