The National Security Law Podcast – Unpacking the Legal Issues Behind the Headlines

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Episode 30: Don’t Pop the Accountability Champagne Quite Yet

August 08, 2017

In this bizarrely-titled episode (ok, they pretty much all have bizarre titles, Professors Vladeck and Chesney take on four national security law developments from the past week. First, they explore the district court ruling in Salim... Read More

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Episode 29: Military Commissions, Military Officers in the Cabinet, the Laws of War, and More

August 01, 2017

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 pending in the D.C. Circuit... Read More

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Episode 28: The North Remembers…the Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998???

July 25, 2017

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 issues surrounding the potential... Read More

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Episode 27: The AUMF: All You Ever Wanted to Know (and Plenty You Didn’t)

July 17, 2017

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... Read More

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Episode 26: The Impenetrable Podcast Unit

July 11, 2017

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 question grounds affirmed dismissal... Read More

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Episode 25: So Much National Security Law News…We’ve Reached Our Limitrophe

June 28, 2017

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 Court’s action in... Read More

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Episode 24: An AUMF for Westeros?

June 20, 2017

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 alleged violations of... Read More

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Episode 23: She Could Be the Ruckelshaus to Rosenstein’s Richardson

June 13, 2017

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’s actions were illegal... Read More

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Episode 22: A Dose of Reality

June 06, 2017

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-machine system and providing that... Read More

Episode 31: We Were Not Mirandized Until Halfway Through This Podcast