This coming week registration will open for 26th Annual Center on Law, Ethics and National Security (LENS) conference which will be presented via Zoom on 25-27 February, but we want to give Lawfire® readers...
Ever wonder how weapons empowered by artificial intelligence (AI) could possibly comply with the law of war? Today’s guest post from Army LTC Ryan Beery has some answers for you. In fact, one of...
One of the hottest topics these days in the law of war is the increasing autonomy in weaponry. We are not yet seeing (and may never see) the emergence of a “Terminator” robot, but...
Over on War on the Rocks I have a new essay entitled “Is the Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapons Immoral?” that discusses the new UN-brokered Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Among other things, the treaty...
Temple University’s Beasley School of Law’s Journal of International and Comparative Law has just completed revitalizing its website and has now posted a very interesting collection of essays about the legal issues associated with...
Recently, the Washington Post carried a story which reported, “U.S. forces are using white phosphorus munitions in their fight against the Islamic State based on pictures and videos posted online by the Pentagon, but...
When Dallas police killed the alleged cop-killing sniper Micah Johnson with an explosive-bearing remote-controlled robot, Police Chief David Brown said “[w]e saw no other option but to use our bomb robot and place a...
In a front page story (22 Feb.) carrying the headline “U.S. Slams Russia’s ‘dumb’ bombs” the Washington Times reports that the “U.S. military says [Russia’s] bombers still drop mostly gravity “dumb” bombs as the...
Originally posted on ICRC Intercross blog, December 1, 2015 Ms. Kelly Geoghegan, Deputy Legal Advisor of the ICRC – an organization for which I have great respect and admiration – has written on its...
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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