This is the second installment of our mini-forum on the U.S. decision to furnish Ukraine with cluster munitions. Your can find the first installment by Butch Bracknell here, and he expertly addresses the potential...
Given the controversial decision by the Administration to furnish cluster munitions to Ukraine, Lawfire® will host a mini forum on this multifaceted issue. In this installment we hear from Robert “Butch” Bracknell who will...
Is the U.S. becoming the leader in the development of norms for the military use of artificial intelligence (AI)? Maybe, but there is still much work to do and some red flags to be...
Today’s guest post is by Dr. Dave Johnson, a retired Army colonel and a principal researcher at the RAND corporation who you may remember from his post last May on the war in Ukraine (an essay...
One of the most troubling concerns arising out of the Ukraine crisis is the potential impact on the nuclear nonproliferation regime. Why? At the end of the Cold War, the Arms Control Association (ACA)...
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...
Today’s post is by Lawfire® regular, Cornell Law’s Brian L. Cox. Brian tackles the International Committee of the Red Cross’ (ICRC) new position on the development and fielding of autonomous weapons. Essentially, the ICRC...
At our recently completed 26th Annual National Security Law Conference, we were honored to have Ms. Alexandra Perina, the Assistant Legal Adviser for Nonproliferation and Arms Control at the U.S. Department of State, give...
The Biden administration has announced it will keep in place the Trump administration’s January 2020 landmine policy as it studies whether or not to make changes. In my experience, there’s a lot of confusion...
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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