In the latest addition to the LENS Essay Series, just-graduated Duke Law 3L Chandler Cole challenges the status quo in her article, Targeting TikTok: Adapting Distinction to the Age of Social Media. Essentially, she...
Today you’ll hear about a terrific development in law of armed conflict scholarship: the recent publication of the Second Edition of the Newport Manual on the Law of Naval Warfare. It was primarily put...
You may have seen reports about the alleged use of a sonic weapon by Serbian authorities on demonstrators in Belgrade. I asked Lawfire® contributor Bill Boothby to give a use a short primer on...
Yes, you read correctly, China is planning a deep-sea “space station”! Fortunately, we have popular Lawfire® contributor (and maritime law super-expert) Professor Raul (“Pete”) Pedrozo to explain it all to us, including some of...
Today’s post is by my friend, Dr. James Kraska, one of the world’s foremost experts in maritime law. At my invitation James wrote the essay below as an overview of his longer piece just...
Today’s post about drone warfare by former Canadian Judge Advocate Ken Watkin could not be more timely. This morning’s New York Times has an excellent front page article (“Drones Define the Deadliest Phase of...
Today Lawfire® contributor Ted Richard gives us a very scholarly review of the new Woomera Manual on the International Law of Military Space Activities and Operations. Ted tells us that the Woomera Manual is...
Today’s post is by my friend of many years, retired RAF Air Commodore Bill Boothby who graciously agreed to discuss his new book, AI Warfare and the Law which has just been published by...
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...
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...
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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