Guest Blogger: LCDR Tracy Reynolds on South China Sea legal issues
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...
Category: Law of War
Did Pakistan’s photos/videos violate the Geneva Conventions…or ease a crisis?
Last week a Washington Post report about the Pakistani shootdown of an Indian fighter aircraft carried this headline: “Pakistan violated Geneva Conventions by tweeting video of captured Indian pilot, expert says.” Allow me to...
Guest Post: A Quick Primer on International Laws Applicable to Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems
Fuzzy about the international law applicable to Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems? Allow today’s guest blogger, Zhanna Malekos Smith to help you clarify. Readers may recall that Zhanna joined the Center on Law, Ethics, and National Security (LENS) and the Duke...
Yes, the raid that killed Osama Bin Laden was lawful
In a January 25th op-ed posted on Bloomberg, Yale Law professor Stephen Carter raised issues about the lawfulness of the raid by U.S. Navy SEALS that killed Osama Bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan in 2011. Professor...
Guest Post: Maziar Homayounnejad on “Precautions in (Autonomous) Attack: Mere Rules, or a Legal Principle?”
Today’s guest blogger is Maziar Homayounnejad, a PhD student at King’s College London. His essay is a brief synopsis of some research done at King’s College London and South Texas College of Law, on...
Guest Post: Zhanna Malekos Smith on “Who’s Driving This Train? Intelligent Autonomy and Law”
Concerned about the relationship between the law and autonomous weapons? So is today’s guest blogger, Zhanna Malekos Smith. Zhanna joined the Center on Law, Ethics, and National Security (LENS) and the Duke Center on...
Podcast: “Legal Issues Confronting the Military National Security Law Community”
I was privileged to serve on the Legal Issues Confronting the Military National Security Law Community panel at the ABA 28th Annual Review of the Field of National Security Law CLE Conference in early...
Guest post: John Goehring on International Law Manuals for Military Operations in Space
With the President’s announcement of the formation of a Space Force, renewed attention has arisen about the law applicable to military space operations. John Goehring is a major in the Air Force Reserve who is involved...
Podcast: The Future of Airpower and the Weaponization of Law (and more)
At the Present and Future of Airpower conference at the Institute for the Study of War and Strategy at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland last May, I spoke with Chrome360’s Catriona Oliphant...
Shortbursts: Supreme Court, new poll on the military, interview about lawfare, a NSA opportunity, and more!
“Shortbursts” is a Lawfire® feature you will see occasionally, and it aims to give you a quick volley of info on a number of items. Filling the Supreme Court vacancy: The press is alive...
