Center on Law, Ethics and National Security
Forthcoming Events
On May 30th and 31st, 2013, Professor Dunlap will participate in the International Committee of the Red Cross conference on "Martens Readings on International Humanitarian Law" in St. Petersburg, Russia.
On June 10th, 2013, Professor Dunlap will be a guest speaker at 75th Ranger Regiment's Field Grade Officer Professional Development Lecture Series in Crystal City, Va.
On June 11th, 2013, Professor Dunlap will teach a class on "Lawfare" and a class on "Civil-Military Relations" at the 21st National Security Law Institute at the University of Virginia Law School.
From July 8th to July19th, 2013, Professor Dunlap will teach a course on "Hot Topics of National Security Law" as part of the Duke Law's new D.C. Summer Institute.
On July 22nd, 2013, Professor Dunlap will present a lecture entitled "Ethics and National Security" as part of the junior Army officer program of the Institute for Defense and Business at the University of North Carolina.
Recent Events
On May 9th, 2013, Professor Dunlap spoke on cyberwar and cybersecurity as part of the Great Decisions series at the Gathering Place in Fearrington Village, N.C.
On May 10th, 2013, Professor Dunlap was the guest speaker and commissioning officer at the Duke University Air Force ROTC commissioning ceremony.
On May 7th, 2013, Professor Silliman was the featured speaker at the Winston-Salem Rotary Club in Winston-Salem, N.C.
On April 29th, 2013, Professor Dunlap spoke at San Diego State University as part of series of lectures sponsored by the Fred J. Hansen Institute on the theme of "International Law and Global Justice: Friends, Acquaintances or Enemies?"
On April 25th, 2013, Professor Dunlap participated on a panel addressing the "Legal limitations on the use of proxy forces in modern international conflict" as part of the spring meeting of the ABA Section on International Law in Washington, D.C.
On April 22nd, 2013, Professor Dunlap participated in a debate entitled "Game of Drones: The Use of Drones in US Foreign Policy" with Professor Claire Finkelstein of the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
On April 12th, 2013, Professor Dunlap participated in the University of Miami National Security and Armed Conflict Law Review Annual Symposium in Miami, Florida.
On March 27th, 2013, Professor Dunlap participated in the Debating Law of Religion Workshop program at Yale Law School.
On March 14th and 15th, 2013, Professor Silliman organized and lectured at the 10th annual Law and Terrorism Seminar at Duke Law School, a program done in conjunction with the Federal Judicial Center.
On March 1st and 2nd, 2013, the Center presented its annual conference at Duke Law School. For more information: http://web.law.duke.edu/lens/conferences/2013/program.
On February 28th, 2013, LENS co-sponsored with the Center for International and Comparative Law a lecture by Professor Curt Bradley on his newly released book, "International Law in the U.S. Legal System." More information is found here: http://web.law.duke.edu/cicl/news/story?id=8047&u=26.
On February 26th, 2013, the Center co-sponsored with the Center for International & Comparative Law a lecture by Henrikas Mickevičius, director of the Human Rights Monitoring Institute, entitled "A Review of U.S. Rendition Practices by the European Court of Human Rights."
On February 9th, 2013, Professor Silliman gave a national security update lecture at the UNC Law Annual Festival of Legal Learning at the Friday Center in Chapel Hill, N.C.
On February 2nd, 2013, Professor Dunlap addressed a class at the National Intelligence University in Washington, D.C.
On January 26th, 2013, Professor Dunlap participated in the Sixth Annual Intellectual Roundtable at Boston University sponsored by the Alliance Linking Leaders in Education and the Services (Allies), an organization dedicated to improving civilian-military relations.
On January 25th, 2013, Professor Dunlap participated in a debate about drone warfare sponsored by the Duke University Hamilton Society.
On January 22nd, 2013, Professor Silliman delivered a speech on humanitarian intervention at the UNC Great Decisions Lecture Series in Chapel Hill, N.C.
On January 18th, 2013, Professor Silliman spoke on dealing with terrorism to a group of about 75 at the Chapel Hill Bible Church in Chapel Hill, N.C.
On December 5th, 2012, Professor Dunlap participated in a panel addressing the question "What are the human rights implications of new technologies in confronting threats to national security?" as part of the 2012 Human Rights Summit at the Newseum in Washington, D.C.
On November 29th and 30th, 2012, the Center on Law, Ethics and National Security cosponsored the American Bar Association's 22nd Annual Review of the Field of National Security Law in Washington, D.C.
Major Jacob Barfoed of the Royal Danish Air Force Expeditionary Air Staff, Concepts & Development branch, spent three weeks at Duke this fall as the first international visiting scholar of the Center on Law, Ethics and National Security. He is a pilot with over 1,200 hours in the F-16, including more than twenty combat sorties over Kosovo and Afghanistan; chairman of the Royal Danish Air Force doctrinal committee; and a contributor to the Royal Danish Air Force compendium on air power and operational planning. Major Barfoed is a recipient of the Dagger of Honor for his academic achievements at the Royal Danish Air Force Academy. He has an MA in military operational art and science from the Air Command & Staff College, U.S. Air University, and is currently a PhD fellow at the Center for War Studies, University of Southern Denmark, where his dissertation is on U.S. wartime leadership and the practice of grand strategy.
On November 14th, 2012, Professor Dunlap visited the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado, where he made presentations to cadets on "Ethical Issues in National Security" and participated in a brown bag lunch forum for the faculty on "Speaking Out."
On November 3rd, 2012, Professor Dunlap participated in the panel "International and Alternative Perspectives" at the Teaching IHL Workshop sponsored by the International Committee of the Red Cross at Emory Law School.
On October 12th, 2012, Professor Dunlap spoke on legal and policy issues of contemporary civil-military relations as part of the North Carolina State Bar Legal Assistance for Military Personnel Continuing Legal Education program at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, Goldsboro, North Carolina.
On October 9th, 2012, Professor John Fabian Witt of Yale Law School led a lunchtime discussion, cosponsored by LENS and the Center for International and Comparative Law, of his newly published book Lincoln's Code: The Laws of War in American History.
On October 7th, 2012, Professor Dunlap served as a commentator for paper presentations by scholars at the "Young Turks & Ottoman Sultans: The Civil-Military Debate Continues" at the University of North Carolina, Friday Center for Continuing Education.
On October 5th, 2012, Professor Dunlap spoke at a conference sponsored by the Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago-Kent College of Law entitled "Under Watchful Eyes: Privacy and the Technologies That Track."
On September 26th, 2012, Professor Dunlap spoke on "Lawfare" for the Alexander Hamilton Society of George Mason University, Alexandria, VA.
On September 18th, 2012, Professor Dunlap participated on a panel addressing "Air Minded Airmen" for the Air Force Association's Annual Air & Space Conference and Technology Exposition in Washington, D.C.
On September 15th, 2012, Professor Dunlap participated on a panel addressing "The Intersection of Legal Advice and Policy from the Service Branch Perspective" for the 3rd Annual Seminar on the Teaching Law and National Security, "Educating the Next Generation of Decision Makers: The Intersection of Law and International Affairs," cosponsored by the American Bar Association Standing Committee on National Security Law and the Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism at Syracuse University.
On August 13th, 2012, Professor Dunlap joined his colleagues in a discussion about curriculum choices with new international students at Duke Law School.
On July 16th, 2012, Professor Dunlap discussed ethics and national security as a guest speaker for the course "National Security Decision Making: Theory & Practice" at the Institute for Defense and Business in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
On June 26th, 2012, Professor Dunlap participated in the Command Responsibility panel at the Naval War College's "Cyber War and International Law" conference.
On June 14th, 2012, Professor Dunlap was on a panel devoted to the topic "Cyber Considerations for Military Forces" at the 25th Annual International Military Operations and Law Conference in Singapore.
On June 6th, 2012, Professor Dunlap gave a guest lecture entitled "Beating Law Books into Swords: A Perspective on Law, Lawyers and 'Lawfare' in Modern Conflict" at the Twentieth National Security Law Institute of the University of Virginia, Center for National Security Law.
On May 30th, 2012, Professor Dunlap took part in a panel on "War Powers in the Age of Technology - Does the Constitution Matter (Anymore)?" as part of the symposium "The Constitution in the Age of Technology" at the University of California, Los Angeles.
On May 28th, 2012, Professor Dunlap gave a presentation on "Legal Issues of Civil Military Relations" for the Practical Civil-Military Relations for Senior Officers Workshop, offered by the Triangle Institute for Security Studies in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
On May 24th and 25th, 2012, Professor Silliman spoke on national security law issues for the Duke in Napa Program in St. Helena, California.
On May 16th, 2012, Professor Dunlap participated in a panel at Stanford University entitled "The Future of Ethics and War: A Crystal Ball Look at the World of 2022."
On April 27th, 2012, Professor Dunlap was the keynote speaker for the McCain Conference hosted by the Stockdale Center for Ethical Leadership at the U.S. Naval Academy. http://www.usna.edu/Ethics/programs/mccain.php.
Former U. S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met with members of the Duke community, including Dunlap and Silliman, during a visit to Duke in April 2012, during which she delivered the Ambassador Dave and Kay Phillips Family International Lecture. » Read more
The annual LENS conference was held on April 13th and 14th, 2012, at Duke Law School. Speakers included General Michael Hayden, former Director of the CIA; Mr. Will Gunn, General Counsel of the Department of Veterans Affairs; and Dr. Mac Owens, Professor of National Security Affairs at the Naval War College. An agenda and video recordings of the conference are available here: https://www.law.duke.edu/lens/conferences/2012/program.
On April 3rd, 2012, Professor Dunlap participated in a panel at William & Mary Law School discussing the Sig Libowitz film about Guantánamo Bay entitled "The Response."
On Mar 23rd, 2012, Professor Dunlap presented a lecture to the 22nd Conference of Legal Advisors and Legal Academics of the German Armed Forces and German Red Cross in Ettlingen, Germany. He addressed the question, "Do we need new regulations in international humanitarian law from a U.S. perspective?"
On March 15th, 2012, Professor Dunlap spoke about cyberwar to the Woman's Club of Raleigh.
On March 6th, 2012, Professor Dunlap attended the annual meeting of the Code Committee hosted by the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces. This meeting is mandated by law to survey the operation of the Uniform Code of Military Justice. http://usmilitary.about.com/library/milinfo/ucmj/blart-146.htm. He was appointed to this statutory position by the Secretary of Defense in 2010.
On March 5th, 2012, Professor Silliman was the featured speaker at the monthly meeting of the Shaftesbury Society (comprised of the management of the John Locke Society) in Raleigh, NC. http://www.johnlocke.org/events/event.html?id=973.
On March 2nd, 2012, Professor Dunlap made a presentation entitled "Ethical Issues in the Practice of National Security Law: A Perspective," for the 2012 Carhart Program on Legal Ethics at Ohio Northern College of Law. http://www.onu.edu/node/40770.
On February 24th, 2012, Professor Dunlap was a panelist on "The Role of Peacebuilding and Conflict Management in a Future American Grand Strategy" for the conference on Conflict Management and Peacebuilding: Pillars of a New American Strategy cosponsored by the U.S. Army Strategic Studies Instituted and Kennesaw State University. http://www.kennesaw.edu/ksussi/2012/index.php.
On February 23rd, 2012, Professor Silliman moderated discussion sponsored by the Hamilton Society between Tim Nichols and Charles Stimson.
On February 22nd, 2012, Professor Dunlap was a panelist on "Tech and the Law: How Our Ideas of 'Privacy' and Changing and Why it Matters," sponsored by the Duke Law Intellectual Property and Cyberlaw Society. http://www.youtube.com/user/dukelaw#p/a/u/0/Huboy9EWMiM.
On February 18th, 2012, Professor Dunlap gave a presentation entitled "Cybersecurity: A Perspective on Cyber-terrorism and Cyberwar," for the World Affairs Council of Eastern NC, at Eastern Caroline University. http://www.ecu.edu/cs-cas/greatdecisions/schedule.cfm.
On February 17th, 2012, Professor Dunlap was a panelist on "Federal Government Lawyering" as part of Duke Law's Careers in Service Symposium 2012 http://www.law.duke.edu/publicinterest/symposium.
On February 16th, 2012, Professor Silliman was the keynote speaker at the opening ceremonies of Duke University's Model United Nations Convention. Some 650-700 high school students from all over the country attended http://www.dumunc.org/.
On February 15th, 2012, the Center sponsored a lecture by Lt Col Kate Oler, USAF, entitled "Sexual Assault in the Armed Forces: A Perspective on the New Legislation."
On February 11th, 2012, Professor Silliman spoke at the 22nd Annual Festival of Legal Learning sponsored by UNC Law School. http://ocw.uci.edu/lectures/lecture.aspx?id=733.
On February 1st, 2012, Professor Dunlap and his wife Joy participated on a panel on the "Work-Life Balance" as part of the Law School's "Wellness Wednesdays" program.
Professor Dunlap moderated the Armed Forces panel t on January 20th, 2012, in connection with the 2nd Annual Women in Law Conference: "Working the System: Creating a Woman's World from the Inside Out."
Professor Silliman visited the University of California Irvine (UCI) School of Law on January 18th, 2012, to participate on a panel entitled "9/11: Civil Liberties and Legal Implications." He was joined by UCI Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky, Professor Stephen Vladeck of American University, and Professor Mario Barnes of UCI (moderator).
On January 11th, 2012, Professor Dunlap presented a lecture entitled "On the Use and Misuse of Law: The Western Experience," to the opening conference of the new interdisciplinary Center for War Studies at the University of Southern Denmark.
Forthcoming Scholarship
Dunlap, Anticipatory Self-Defense and the Israeli-Iranian Crisis: Some Remarks, ILSA JOURNAL OF INT'L & COMPARATIVE LAW (forthcoming 2013).
Dunlap, The Role of Peacebuilding and Conflict Management in a Future American Grand Strategy: Time for an "Off Shore" Approach?, in CONFLICT MANAGEMENT AND PEACEBUILDING: PILLARS OF A NEW AMERICAN GRAND STRATEGY, U.S. Army Strategic Studies Institute (Volker D. Franke and Robin Dorff eds., forthcoming 2013).
Dunlap, Military Law, in THE MODERN AMERICAN MILITARY, Stanford University (David M. Kennedy ed., forthcoming 2013).
Dunlap, Clever or Clueless? Observations about Bombing Norm Debates, in BOMBING: HOW LEGAL AND ETHICAL NORMS CHANGE (Matthew A. Evangelista ed., forthcoming 2013).
Recent Scholarship
Dunlap, Some Observations Regarding Gabriella Blum's "Fog of Victory," 24 EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF INT'L LAW 423-32 (2013).
Dunlap, Ethical Issues of the Practice of National Security Law: Some Observations, 38 OHIO N.U. L. REV. 1057-95 (2012).
Dunlap, Do We Need New Regulations in International Humanitarian Law? An American's Perspective, 25 J. OF INT'L. LAW OF PEACE AND ARMED CONFLICT 121-28 (2012).
Dunlap, The Intersection of Law and Ethics in Cyberwar: Some Reflections, 24 AIR & SPACE J. 1-17 (2012).
Dunlap, Lawless Cyberwar? Not If You Want to Win, in PATRIOT DEBATES: CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN NATIONAL SECURITY LAW, American Bar Assn. (Harvey Rishikof, Stewart Baker, and Bernard Horowitz, eds., 2012).
Dunlap, Responses to Five Questions, 38 Wm. Mitchell L. Rev. 1564-86 (2012).
Dunlap, Law of War Manuals and Warfighting: A Perspective, 47 TEX. J. INT'L. L. 265 (2012).
Dunlap, A Whole Lot of Substance or a Whole Lot of Rhetoric? A Perspective on a Whole-of-Government Approach to Security Challenges, in CONFLICT MANAGEMENT AND "WHOLE OF GOVERNMENT": USEFUL TOOLS FOR U.S. NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGY?, U.S. Army Strategic Studies Institute 185-215 (Volker D. Franke & Robin Dorff eds., 2012).
Dunlap, The Mottled Legacy of 9/11: A Few Reflections on the Evolution of the International Law of Armed Conflict, in YEARBOOK OF INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW 2011 (Michael N. Schmitt ed., 2012), at 431.
Charles Dunlap on the Discussion Started by Mark Mazzetti, The Drone Zone, LAWFARE, July 12, 2012.
Dunlap, Bad Policies Breed Bad Behavior on Modern Battlefield Situations, CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER, Apr. 22, 2012.
Dunlap, Lawfare Today . . . and Tomorrow, in INTERNATIONAL LAW AND THE CHANGING CHARACTER OF WAR 315 (Raul A. “Pete” Pedrozo and Daria P. Wollschlaeger eds., 2011) (Vol 87, U.S. Naval War College International Law Studies).
Dunlap, The Military-Industrial Complex, DAEDALUS, at 135, summer 2011.
Dunlap, Perspectives for Cyber Strategists on Law for Cyberwar, STRATEGIC STUDIES QUARTERLY, spring 2011, at 81.
