“Technology,” scholars tell us, “has permitted the division of mankind into ruler and ruled.” While Americans have no desire to rule mankind, they certainly don’t want adversaries wielding high-technology thinking they could use it...
Today I’m pleased to announce a new addition to the LENS Essay Series, and this one is a first: an essay by a Duke Law alumnus! Major Daniel (“Danny”) P. Beaulieu graduated from Duke...
Today I’m pleased to announce a new addition to the LENS Essay Series. This article is by Liam A. Murray, a rising 3L here at Duke Law. Liam’s submission is a very creative one...
Today’s post introduces another addition to the LENS Essay Series, and this one is by my super-smart research assistant, Duke Law 2L Nicole De Brigard. Her essay is entitled “Money Makes the World of Terrorism...
Today’s post introduces another addition to the LENS Essay Series, and it is a terrific piece of scholarship by a wonderfully talented Duke Law 3L, Bailey Williams. Her work is entitled “Xiaomi v. U.S....
Today’s post introduces the latest addition to the LENS Essay Series, a fascinating article by a brilliant Duke Law 3L, Lindsay Kenney, entitled “The ‘Havana Syndrome’ and the Use of Force: Reality, Hypotheticals, and...
Wow, what a year! As we reflect on 2021, we may all agree it was certainly a year of many national security challenges, and I hope Lawfire® helped you to understand some of them. ...
Virtually everyone concedes that the future of warfare will include autonomous weapons, but controversy exists as to how they can be reliably employed in a legal and moral manner. This is the exact issue...
Can science enable soldiers to become not just superior warfighters, but also people better equipped to make legal and moral judgements about the use of force? That’s the intriguing question addressed in today’s post...
Today’s addition to the LENS Essay series comes from a very talented rising Duke Law 3L, Victoria Morgan. Her article is entitled “Cyber Proxies in International Armed Conflicts: Shrinking the Gray Area” and it’s...
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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