This week I received the just-released paperback version of Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Charlie Savage’s 2015 best-seller, Power Wars: The Relentless Rise of Presidential Authority and Secrecy from the publisher. With some important caveats,...
Over on War on the Rocks I have a new essay entitled “Is the Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapons Immoral?” that discusses the new UN-brokered Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Among other things, the treaty...
May I invite you to take a look at a just-published post over on Just Security entitled “There Is Much More to a Civilian Casualty Investigation than Eyewitness Accounts”? It’s a response to a...
When the press reaches out for a diversity of views on controversial issues, it’s something to cheer about. Consequently, when Merrit Kennedy, a reporter for NPR, contacted me yesterday about a new Amnesty International report, “At...
The recent shootdown of a Syrian Su-22 fighter-bomber by a U.S. Navy F/A-18E Super Hornet is causing some consternation in the legal community because of the assumption that the action was taken solely to...
In his essay, “U.S. Military Justice and “Operational Mishaps”: A Primer”, did Gene Fidell get it right as to how the American military deals with battlefield errors? Not quite according to our guest blogger, U.S....
“Shortbursts” is a new Lawfire feature you will see occasionally, and it aims to give you a quick volley of info on a number of items. As April has been such a busy month, I...
Today I participated along with Human Rights Watch’s Sarah Margon on NPR’s Morning Edition in a segment (“Civilians in Mosul Remain Trapped”) hosted by Rachel Martin. We discussed the issue of civilian casualties in...
Yesterday’s New York Times report about civilian deaths from airstrikes in Mosul is, unfortunately, likely not the last such story as coalition forces close in on the Islamic State (ISIS) in both Iraq and...
Temple University’s Beasley School of Law’s Journal of International and Comparative Law has just completed revitalizing its website and has now posted a very interesting collection of essays about the legal issues associated with...
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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