Shortbursts are an occasional feature of Lawfire® designed to provide quick updates on a variety of matters. Former LENS Speaker nominated to be the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff The President has nominated...
In today’s post Mark Nevitt, Associate Professor of Law at Emory University School of Law, expertly addresses news reports about a supposed controversy between the Pentagon and the Interior Department regarding plans for offshore...
Security, both fiscal and physical, is a primary need of individuals and countries. With the recent banking crisis, much attention went to that issue and resolutions. Another crisis is happening on a broader scale,...
Today’s post comes to us from Professor Tom C.W. Lin of Temple University’s Beasley School of Law. His Lawfire® essay draws from his recent 64-page law review article, “Business Warfare,” (available here) and it...
Today’s post is by retired Marine Corps colonel Mike Samarov, and he grapples with a very serious national security issue: the Army’s recruiting crisis. Here are some key facts and figures from a recent...
Today’s guest post comes from Monsignor Stuart Swetland, and he is no ordinary commentator: read his impressive bio and you’ll find that he’s a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and a Rhodes Scholar...
Today’s post is by my super-smart research assistant, Ms. Angelina “Gina” Bianchi. She addresses a topic we all need to be concerned about: data privacy. You may remember her from her contribution to the...
Be sure to tune-in today and tomorrow morning for the 27th Annual Duke Law National Security Conference, It’s free, and no registration is required. The conference website is here. (And, yes, the Ukraine crisis...
As we announced on November 24th, Duke’s Center on Law, Ethics and National Security (LENS) will hold its 27th Annual National Security Law Conference on Friday, February 25 and Saturday morning, February 26. Although we...
“If only…”is a mind game that often ruminates on the past, but “What if…?” allows us to speculate on the future, to hope, to look not for make-believe unicorns but instead to keep watch...
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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