Lawfare is pleased to share The National Security Law Podcast, hosted by some of our contributors: Lawfare co-founder Robert Chesney and Professor Steve Vladeck. Lawfare exercises no editorial control over this podcast.
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The National Security Law Podcast: Don’t Pop the Accountability Champagne Quite Yet
In this bizarrely titled episode (OK, they pretty much all have bizarre titles), Professors Vladeck and Chesney take on four developments in national security law from the past week. First, they explore... -
The National Security Law Podcast: Military Commissions, Military Officers in the Cabinet, the Laws of War, and More
This week’s episode certainly has a military theme. Professors Chesney and Vladeck start off with a surprisingly (or is it disturbingly?) lengthy discussion of the writ of mandamus litigation currently p... -
The National Security Law Podcast: The North Remembers…the Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998???
In this week’s episode, Professors Chesney and Vladeck focus on two subjects: the extradition of Ali Damache and what it might portend for Trump administration counterterrorism policy, and the slate of i... -
The National Security Law Podcast: The AUMF: All You Ever Wanted to Know (and Plenty You Didn’t)
Want a thorough backgrounder on the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force? This is the episode for you. (This also is the episode for you if what you want, instead, is an hour of legal blather fol... -
The National Security Law Podcast: The Impenetrable Podcast Unit
In today’s episode, Professors Chesney and Vladeck focus on three sets of issues. First, they explore the D.C. Circuit’s June 30th ruling in Jaber v. United States, in which the court on political questi... -
The National Security Law Podcast: So Much National Security Law News…We’ve Reached Our Limitrophe
Had you seen the word “limitrophe” before Justice Breyer used it in his dissent in Herndandez v. Mesa? Neither had Professors Vladeck and Chesney, but that doesn’t stop them from exploring the Supreme Co... -
The National Security Law Podcast: An AUMF for Westeros?
In today’s episode, Professors Chesney and Vladeck discuss the Supreme Court’s decision in Ziglar v. Abbasi in more detail than you could possibly want. What’s that one even about, you ask? Damages for ... -
The National Security Law Podcast: She Could Be the Ruckelshaus to Rosenstein’s Richardson
In this episode, Professors Vladeck and Chesney come up with a tongue-twister of a title while exploring the legal fallout from the Comey testimony last week, including discussions of (1) whether Comey’... -
The National Security Law Podcast: A Dose of Reality
In this episode, Professors Chesney and Vladeck have a full plate. The arrest of a contractor named Reality Winner (for having stolen classified information relating to Russian efforts to hack a voting... -
The National Security Law Podcast: A Military Commissions Deep Dive
This episode is a bit different than normal. Instead of tearing through the latest developments in the wide world of national security law, Professors Vladeck and Chesney instead provide a deep-dive ov... -
The National Security Law Podcast: The Executive Branch’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good Very Bad Week in Court
It has only been a few days since Episode 19, but Steve and Bobby are worried that fellow national security law geeks won’t have enough @nslpodcast to enjoy during long Memorial Day Weekend roadtrips. ... -
The National Security Law Podcast, Episode 18: Disclosing Secrets to the Russians Makes Me WannaCry
The guys came back to the office tonight for a rare evening recording session, inspired by a combination of hot-off-the-presses news about the president talking out of turn to the Russians, lack of inte...