Much of today’s post will be familiar to Lawfire® readers as it involves the bill currently before Congress to eviscerate commanders’ authority and responsibility for disciplinary matters. Specifically, this post addresses an attack on the...
Today’s post is by Lawfire® regular, Cornell Law’s Brian L. Cox, but before we get to his superb essay, let’s discuss the broader context of the underlying issue. As mentioned last week in introducing...
This summer has seen headlines about armed groups such as “Injuries reported after armed militias clash at Louisville protest” and “Armed Neighborhood Groups Form in the Absence of Police Protection”. What can government authorities...
This is the first of several posts that aim to give you perspectives on some of the law applicable to the airstrike that killed Ayman al-Zawahiri. My post today offers some quick “shortbursts” on...
As many Lawfire® readers know, there is a controversial proposal in Congress to radically change the Uniform Code of Military Justice by outsourcing to staff legal officers key aspects of what historically has been the...
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...
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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