Today’s post by Lawfire® contributor Brian Cox assesses an ongoing project known as “A Living Document: Strengthening the DoD Law of War Manual.” The series describes itself as a forum for contributors to “reflect...
Do you know what “hybrid war” means? Does international law consider it “war” or “peace”? How should the law assess it? Does it matter? In “Mind the Gap? Jus ad Bellum and Jus in...
Today’s post is by Andrew Parco, the first student from the University of North Carolina School of Law selected to participate in the LENS Essay Series. I met Andrew when he took my course...
Today we are treated to Part II of Brian Cox’s extremely important essay which concludes that we may be seeing the “death of international law involving armed conflict.” As you‘ll recall from Part...
Today’s post by Lawfire® contributor Brian Lee Cox is an especially important one as he explains why we may be seeing the “death of international law involving armed conflict.” In a two-part essay...
A week ago, I had the honor of being a guest on West Point’s Modern Warfare Institute’s (MWI) Urban Warfare Project Podcast hosted by John Spencer. As Lawfire® readers know, I consider John to...
Today’s post is by a new Lawfire® writer, Charlie Kels. I’ve admired his superb scholarship for quite some time, and his contribution today extends that record of excellence. In his post, Charlie takes on...
Today we welcome another new contributor to Lawfire®: Major Grant W. McDowell, USMC. Major McDowell is currently assigned as an instructor at the Army Judge Advocate General (JAG) School. His post is a ‘call...
Today we’re fortunate to hear from Lawfire® contributor and renowned law of armed conflict (LOAC) expert, David Graham. Dave critiques Geoff Corn’s post “The Disproportionate Confusion About Proportionality,” and mine, “Why Israeli operations in...
Today we introduce a new contributor to Lawfire®, Air Force Reserve Lt Col Jay Jackson. Writing in his personal capacity Lt Col Jackson, gives us something of a primer on the concept of “direct...
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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