I am very pleased to welcome back Lawfire® contributor and LENS Conference participant, Dr. Aurel Sari. Dr. Sari is a very highly-respected international law expert, and one of the world’s top authorities on the...
Today’s post is the second installment of Lawfire’s® mini-series about the airstrike that killed Ayman al-Zawahiri. In yesterday’s post, I gave you some “shortbursts” on my view of a number of legal issues raised...
Today’s post is by Professor Orde Kittrie, and he makes a very interesting addition to our essays related to the war in the Ukraine by examining the UN General Assembly (UNGA) resolutions addressing the...
The normally very highly-reliable Congressional Research Service (CRS) seems to have missed the mark a bit with its recent (Dec 10) report on the “Use of Force in Cyberspace.” There are certainly aspects of...
Yesterday President Biden ordered airstrikes on what the Pentagon described as “operational and weapons storage facilities at two locations in Syria and one location in Iraq” in order to ”disrupt and deter” an “ongoing...
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...
Today’s guest post is a real treat. With the gracious permission of the Army’s Judge Advocate General’s Corps, we’re able to present to you the 2020 Solf-Warren Lecture by Professor John Norton Moore. Professor...
Recently, Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar accused President Trump of “threatening to commit ‘war crimes’ against Iran.” Actually, although international law does provide special protection to certain cultural sites, attacking them (or threatening...
Today a news reporter asked whether the killing of General Qasem Soleimani, who led the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Force (a U.S.-designated terrorist organization), amounted to “assassination” as proscribed in Executive Order (EO) 12333. ...
Last week a Washington Post report about the Pakistani shootdown of an Indian fighter aircraft carried this headline: “Pakistan violated Geneva Conventions by tweeting video of captured Indian pilot, expert says.” Allow me to...
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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