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...
Want a really important (yet also entertaining) summer read? I’d recommend 2034: A Novel of the Next War, a new bestseller penned by my war college classmate and retired NATO commander Admiral Jim Stavridis,...
Today we continue our examination of the International Committee of the Red Cross’ (ICRC) new stance on autonomous weapons with an essay by my friend, Richmond Law’s Dr. Rebecca Crootof. (You may recall...
As Lawfire® readers know from a previous post (“Can troops be ordered to take a COVID vaccine? A guest post analyzes the law“) there is a clear legal path for the Secretary of Defense,...
What’s it like to be a cyber lawyer in America’s national security enterprise? What kind of issues do they grapple with? Do you know what “Rickrolled” means in the cyber context? Our guest post...
Yesterday I was privileged to be part of the Lawyer 2 Lawyer podcast on the Legal Talk Network where we addressed “Cyberwarfare, U.S./Russia Relations, and Ukraine“ (and, actually, a few more issues!). I was pleased...
Do you want to get up to speed on the latest issues in cybersecurity? If so, listen/watch the discussion by the world renown experts who spoke at LEN’s recently-completed 26th Annual National Security Law...
If a commercial satellite company supplies photo intelligence used by a customer-nation to launch attacks on the forces of another country, what might the targeted forces do, consistent with international law, to stop such...
Yesterday Duke’s Center on Law, Ethics and National Security (LENS) completed its 26th Annual LENS National Security Law Conference. Conducted virtually, the conference garnered–by far–our largest number of registrants ever. That’s no surprise due...
Registration for Duke’s Center on Law, Ethics and National Security’s (LENS) Annual National Security Law conference is smashing all our records, and we are expecting the largest number of attendees in our 26-year history. ...
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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