How are 80% of the world’s goods transported? By sea. Given the obvious security implications of that economic truth, you’ll want to listen to (and/or watch) the Maritime Law and Global Security podcast from...
Is it legal for an aircraft flying in international airspace to conduct reconnaissance operations? Does international law permit another nation to interfere with such missions if they occur near their warships? There are some...
In today’s post Navy CDR Tracy Reynolds, speaking in her personal capacity, educates us about the risk to the rules based international order the U.S. and the international community face as China’s ambitions –...
Today Lawfire® is pleased to present an essay by Navy lieutenant James Cook introducing a new podcast on Operational Maritime Law. This is an area which really needs a podcast, especially one that, as...
A senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute published an op-ed in Defense One (“How Irish Fishermen Took on the Russian Fleet and Won”) that enthusiastically reports how Irish fisherman threatened to use their...
Want a really important (yet also entertaining) summer read? I’d recommend 2034: A Novel of the Next World War, a new bestseller penned by my war college classmate and retired NATO commander Admiral Jim...
Today’s post addresses a disturbing issue in the Western Pacific you may not have heard too much about: the threat posed by unlawful fishing activities that could dangerously destabilize the region. In our latest...
Yesterday the US Navy announced that the “nuclear-power Ohio-class guided-missile submarine USS Georgia (SSGN 729) along with the guided-missile cruisers USS Port Royal (CG 73) and USS Philippine Sea (CG 58) transited the Strait...
Today’s post comes to us from international scholars Andrés B. Munoz Mosquera and Nikoketa Chalanouli. They explore China’s increasingly formalized and well-resourced effort to instrumentalize law into a form of “warfare” to advance its...
Want to catch up on the legal issues in the South China Sea? Our guest blogger today is LCDR Tracy L. Reynolds, JAGC, USN, who will help you do just that. LCDR Reynolds’ very...
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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