Lecture on Law and Military Conflict March 24

LEXINGTON, Ky. (March 21, 2014) ― "Who Has the License to Kill:  Law and the Use of Military Force," is the title of a lecture at noon Monday, March 24, in the University of Kentucky College of Law Courtroom.

Sponsored by the International Law Society and Ex-Patt Magazine, the event will feature Robert Farley, assistant professor in the UK Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce, and Nicole Huberfeld, the Wendell Cherry Professor of Law in UK's College of Law.

Huberfeld, a constitutional law expert, will discuss the constitutional restraints on the president and the executive branch in regard to the use of military force.  Farley, an expert on the military, will speak on the role of law in a military conflict ― especially as it applies to the Air Force, strategic bombing and the use of drones in warfare.

"As recent history has shown, questions over the legality of war, as well as the laws of war, appear as if they will not only remain pertinent in today's military conflicts, but well into the conflicts of the future," said one of the event organizers, James Bohland, a student in the Patterson School and a member of the staff of Ex-Patt, the Patterson Schools' magazine of foreign affairs.