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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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” 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...
Last week Brad Smith, Microsoft’s President and Chief Legal officer, announced that 34 technology companies signed the “Cybersecurity Tech Accord.” While attempting to address cybersecurity issues is laudable, this is not the way to...
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...
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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