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

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Episode 36: NSA General Counsel Glenn Gerstell on Section 702

September 14, 2017

We have a special treat in this off-cycle episode! NSA GC Glenn Gerstell is in Austin to speak to our students here at UT, and (no doubt against his better judgment) he agreed to sit... Read More

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Episode 35: Will This Be the Year of Military Courts at the Supreme Court?

September 12, 2017

Will this year’s Supreme Court term be packed with cases relating to military courts? In this week’s show, Professors Chesney and Vladeck explore the possibility. The Supreme Court currently has before it an array of... Read More

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Episode 34: January 2019 as the Start of the 9/11 Trial: Over/Under?

September 05, 2017

In today’s episode, Professors Chesney and Vladeck spend time with three legal topics (before spiraling off into some ill-informed commentary on the college football season). First, building off a report that FBI arrests of Islamic... Read More

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Episode 33: How About a Presidential Pardon…For This Episode

August 30, 2017

In this week’s episode, Professors Chesney and Vladeck take advantage of a relatively quiet week for national security law developments in order to range across a number of topics. Being in Texas, we are all... Read More

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Episode 32: Back to the Future…of Afghanistan and GTMO?

August 22, 2017

Never a dull moment in 2017. In this week’s episode, Professors Vladeck and Chesney take on four topics (well, four relevant topics…do try to stay with them past their musings on home runs at the Little League... Read More

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

August 16, 2017

In this week’s episode, Professors Chesney and Vladeck make a whole series of blatantly un-Mirandized statements about some of the latest national security law developments. First, they take up a number of questions relating to... Read More

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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

Episode 37: Enemy Combatants, Agents of Foreign Powers