David Lenefsky

May 26, 2023 | New York Law Journal

A discussion of the Byzantium Empire, the longest lasting empire in the western world which began in 330 A.D. and collapsed 1,123 years later in 1453.

By David Lenefsky

7 minute read

April 27, 2023 | New York Law Journal

The dynamics of the nuclear weapons relationship between and among the United States, Russia and China is in free fall. There is presently no strategic nuclear weapons stability between the three nuclear superpowers other than their recognition, it is assumed, that preventing nuclear war is an existential imperative. Each knows, it is hoped, that wars today which kill thousands would—if strategic nuclear weapons are used—kill millions.

By David Lenefsky

7 minute read

March 23, 2023 | New York Law Journal

While always serious, Voltaire's writings were poisonous with wit, sarcasm and irony. And the irony of his life was that while he dropped out of law school complaining about "the vast amount of useless rubbish they wanted to lord into my brain," his life was inextricably entwined with the law.

By David Lenefsky

8 minute read

February 22, 2023 | New York Law Journal

David Lenefsky offers his take on the Chinese spy balloon incident and the "essential requirement of strategic stability."

By David Lenefsky

5 minute read

January 12, 2023 | New York Law Journal

Russia's war in Ukraine is a throwback to the barbarism of the 1930s. International judicial intervention is required.

By David Lenefsky

6 minute read

November 03, 2022 | New York Law Journal

Courbet demonstrated to the next generation of great artists—Manet, Monet, Cezanne and many others—that it is possible to succeed artistically and economically apart from government approval.

By David Lenefsky

10 minute read

September 15, 2022 | New York Law Journal

It is reasonable to expect non-nuclear weapon countries to seriously explore going nuclear in order to have the ability or threatened ability to inflict unacceptable damage on a nuclear weapon adversary.

By David Lenefsky

7 minute read

June 28, 2022 | New York Law Journal

Great artists absorb the gross experience of their world and then distill its essential meaning. Goya and Daumier did just that.

By David Lenefsky

7 minute read

May 12, 2022 | New York Law Journal

Given the cultural and legal restrictions women faced, Artemisia Gentileschi's exuberance and excess are understandable, in fact mostly admirable.

By David Lenefsky

7 minute read

April 06, 2022 | New York Law Journal

Putin's threat on February 25 of a nuclear response if the United States or NATO "interferes with us" represents a major change in the concept of "no first use," a pledge or a policy by a nuclear weapons power not to be the first to use nuclear weapons.

By David Lenefsky

4 minute read