Yesterday military forces of the U.S., France, and Great Britain struck targets involved in Syria’s chemical weapons program. As I’ve often said, any use of force carries serious risks of unintended consequences, but this...
One of the hottest topics these days in the law of war is the increasing autonomy in weaponry. We are not yet seeing (and may never see) the emergence of a “Terminator” robot, but...
A little more than a week ago an excellent Vox article recounted how North Korea is using “bitcoin to get around US sanctions” – a report that comes on the heels of others indicating...
A robust debate has emerged over a Lawfare post by Lieutenant Colonel Shane Reeves and Captain Rob Lawless entitled “Is There an International Legal Basis for the ‘Bloody Nose’ Strategy?” It examines the legality...
Yes, registration is now open for the 2018 national security conference hosted by the Center on Law, Ethics and National Security on February 23-24 at Duke Law School! This year’s theme is “Complexity and...
Dr. Aurel Sari and Professor Michael Schmitt, two of the world’s most prominent law of armed conflict (LOAC) scholars, have penned an important essay that Lawfire is pleased to host. It addresses a fundamental LOAC tenet...
In the past month Rita Siemion of Human Rights First has penned three posts over on Just Security (here, here, and here) with a common feature: a call for more transparency from the U.S. government...
America’s command and control system has operated in a way that has helped deter the use of nuclear weapons for more than seventy years. However, over on Lawfare, Professors Richard Betts and Matt Waxman...
Duke Law’s National Security Law Society and the Center on Law, Ethics and National Security will take 10 students to the American Bar Association’s 27th Annual Review of the Field of National Security...
It is understandably challenging for journalists to translate the sometimes complex legal concepts of international law for a general audience. However, when it is the New York Times, and the reporters involved are highly-regarded,...
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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