“Shortburst” is an occasional feature of Lawfire® that aims to bring you up to date with bursts of information on a variety of topics and/or advise you of a happening you may find of...
It’s hard to believe, but this month – thanks to the support of you, the readers – we celebrate Lawfire’s five-year anniversary. Since March 2016, 350 posts have been published. If you’re curious as...
Many today might be curious why more Confederates weren’t charged, let alone tried, for treason. The discussion of treason relative to Confederate soldiers is one that found its way back to Congress this summer...
Today’s guest essay is co-authored by Professor John Norton Moore and Dr. Steven R. Goldring who argue that the devastating impact of the COVID-19 pandemic requires a re-conceptualization of health care. Among other things,...
In today’s post we’re pleased to introduce the newest addition to LENS’s online “Essays on Law, Ethics and National Security Series.” Today’s brilliant contribution, “All’s Fair in Love and Wars of Self-Defense: In Support...
Today’s podcast is by my friend, Mary-Rose Papandrea, the Samuel Ashe Distinguished Professor of Constitutional Law and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the University of North Carolina School of Law. This podcast is...
Fuzzy about the international law applicable to Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems? Allow today’s guest blogger, Zhanna Malekos Smith to help you clarify. Readers may recall that Zhanna joined the Center on Law, Ethics, and National Security (LENS) and the Duke...
A very wide range of national and, really, international security issues confronted the U.S. and the world in 2018, and Lawfire® readers got a unique perspective on many of them. Here are the top ten...
Interested in how artificial intelligence (AI) and the law will operate together (or not) in future conflicts? If so, then today’s guest post is exactly what you are looking for! U.S. Army judge...
Last week a panel was presented at Duke Law that was supposed to address “Texas Borders and Immigration Policies” but wound up being mostly a polemic against efforts to secure the border, and included...
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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