Shortbursts is an occasional feature of Lawfire®designed to provide brief news pieces or updates on a variety of matters. More speakers confirming for the LENS 2025 Conference! Because issues associated with outer space are...
Some pundits, academics, and others have long been insisting that U.S. civil-military relations are in “crisis” a claim which, as Rosa Brooks has noted, is a “a recurring feature of American politics”. They will...
Each year U.S. Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM) presents one of the world’s most important legal conferences about developments in cyber operations. If you missed this year’s, I have good news for you: thanks to the...
The growing role of social media in the Ukraine conflict is garnering increasing notice in the press, with some suggesting that given how it is so significantly influencing world opinion, we are seeing the...
How can the U.S. and rule-of-law democracies counter increasingly sophisticated and weaponized disinformation? How should they wage “information warfare” during period of putative peace? What are some of the rewards – and risks –...
Today’s post is about an extremely important topic for warfighters and their legal advisors: the development of the international law as it relates to cyber operations. One of the most influential contributions to this...
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. ...
Secretary of Defense (SecDef) Lloyd Austin is understandably concerned about, as he characterized them, “actions associated with extremist or dissident ideologies” within the armed forces. Consequently, he’s ordered ”commanding officers and supervisors at all...
Today we have an op-ed about a ‘ripped from the headlines’ topic: the recent executive orders that essentially shut down the social media messaging app WeChat (and also TikTok ). We are very pleased...
This conference will sell out fast! On February 28-29, the 25th Annual National Security Law Conference of Duke’s Center on Law, Ethics and National Security will take place and you’ll definitely want to be...
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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