At the end of World War II, some ten million current and former members of Nazi Germany’s and Imperialist Japan’s armed forces survived the conflict. Indeed, some Germans fought on for months, and the...
Stephen Rickard and Elisa Massimino have a new post on Lawfare (“Why We Don’t Support Gina Haspel for CIA Director: A Response to Benjamin Wittes”) that’s interesting, but the implications of their reasoning ought to...
Last week Brad Smith, Microsoft’s President and Chief Legal officer, announced that 34 technology companies signed the “Cybersecurity Tech Accord.” While attempting to address cybersecurity issues is laudable, this is not the way to...
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is being grilled by Congress this week over his company’s privacy policies, as well as its broader responsibilities as a communications and information platform for some 2.13 billion users worldwide....
A little more than a week ago an excellent Vox article recounted how North Korea is using “bitcoin to get around US sanctions” – a report that comes on the heels of others indicating...
Last Friday (Feb 24) Duke law grad Ambassador Nathan Sales, the State Department’s Coordinator for Counterterrorism, was the dinner speaker for LENS’ annual national security law conference (“Complexity and Security: The Role of the...
We are pleased to announce that Ambassador Nathan Sales has confirmed as our speaker for the 2018 LENS Conference dinner on Friday, Feb 23rd at the Washington Duke Inn. He serves as the State...
Yes, registration is now open for the 2018 national security conference hosted by the Center on Law, Ethics and National Security on February 23-24 at Duke Law School! This year’s theme is “Complexity and...
Like everyone, former Army officer Benjamin Haas is rightly horrified by the terrible tragedy in Las Vegas where 50 were killed and 406 hospitalized. However, his essay over on Just Security (“Gun Violence Deserves...
Recently my friends John Bellinger and Paul Lewis became the latest Washington policy devotees to advocate the closing of Guantanamo (GITMO). While they make excellent arguments, there are some key points with which I must...
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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