The National Security Law Podcast: What Month Is This Anyway?
The latest episode of The National Security Law Podcast.
Published by The Lawfare Institute
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We are back, and even though one of us apparently cannot work this new tech called a “calendar,” we’re excited to bring a shorter-than-usual episode without having a whole month go by!
Tune in as co-hosts Steve Vladeck and Bobby Chesney discuss and debate:
- The Biden Administration’s change of position on the availability of coerced statements for use in pre-trial proceedings in military commissions
- The news of the capture, repatriation to the United States, and federal court prosecution of a woman from Kansas who apparently had traveled to Syria to take up arms on behalf of ISIS–and the questions this raises about how long she was held pre-transfer, and in whose custody
- Civil suits against private military contractors, the varied legal obstacles they face, and updates on some current lawsuits in which Steve is involved–and interesting questions they raise, such as the precise scope of the “combat activities” limitation
All that, plus a grab-bag of frivolity including the new Netflix movie based on Robert Harris’s Munich book, and of course NFL sportsball happenings!
Robert (Bobby) Chesney is the Dean of the University of Texas School of Law, where he also holds the James A. Baker III Chair in the Rule of Law and World Affairs at UT. He is known internationally for his scholarship relating both to cybersecurity and national security. He is a co-founder of Lawfare, the nation’s leading online source for analysis of national security legal issues, and he co-hosts the popular show The National Security Law Podcast.
Steve Vladeck is a professor of law at the University of Texas School of Law. A 2004 graduate of Yale Law School, Steve clerked for Judge Marsha Berzon on the Ninth Circuit and Judge Rosemary Barkett on the Eleventh Circuit. In addition to serving as a senior editor of the Journal of National Security Law & Policy, Steve is also the co-editor of Aspen Publishers’ leading National Security Law and Counterterrorism Law casebooks.
