Just in time for your weekend entertainment, NSL Podcast is back with a new episode. This time the show was recorded live before a (Zoom-based) audience of Texas Law alumni, which made for a nice…
An extra-fun episode because we have an extra person with us tonight: Texas Law 3L Jake Bishop, our special guest host! Jake, thanks for joining in the fun! Tune in, as Jake and co-hosts Steve…
Episode 195: Sparkly Rainbow Snowboots!
- March 2, 2021
- Tagged as: 18 USC 875, 2001 AUMF, 2002 AUMF, Article II, AUMF, foreign relations, GTMO, Insurrection, Iraq, Islamic State, Kashoggi, military detention, national self defense, Navalny, OLC, sanctions, SDF, Syria, the Beatles, True Threats, War Powers, WPR
Well, it’s been a while, thanks to the ice/snow/power/water fiasco we recently underwent in Texas. But, though tired and not very prepared, we are back tonight! Tune in as co-hosts Steve Vladeck and Bobby Chesney…
And we’re back, with discussion of the latest national security law news. (Video of the show here!) This week, co-hosts Steve Vladeck and Bobby Chesney nerd out with the details on: Can he do that?…
Episode 158: What SCOTUS Can Learn from Franklin Barbecue
- March 11, 2020
- Tagged as: Afghanistan, AR 190-8, Army Regulation 190-8, Article II, Call Detail Records, CDRs, coronavirus, covid-19, CSC, Cyberspace Solarium Commission, Defense Department General Counsel, escalation risk, FISA, Franklin Barbecue, GTMO, Guantanamo, ICC, lone wolf, national self defense, Paul Ney, Picard, Roving Wiretaps, SCOTUS, Section 215, social distancing, Soleimani, sunset, Supreme Court, USA Freedom Act, war crimes, Westworld
Are you “working” from home now? Perhaps it’s time to take a break and enjoy the latest episode of the National Security Law Podcast. In a discussion that takes the goal of let’s-not-prepare-too-much to new…
This week on NSL Podcast, co-hosts Steve Vladeck and Bobby Chesney discuss and debate: The U.S. government’s formal statement to Congress on the legal rationale for its airstrike against General Soleimani Trumplandia and law enforcement:…
We’ve got a short one this week, but also we didn’t plan or prep much, so we have that going for us! Tune in as Professors Vladeck and Chesney discuss the 2nd Circuit oral argument…
Episode 129: This Is Quite the War Powers Podcast
- July 24, 2019
- Tagged as: 2339B, 9/11, al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, AQIM, Article II, Asainov, associated force, AUMF, Bill Barr, CID Treatment, Doe v. Mattis, Executive Privilege, going dark, GTMO, Guantanamo, Iran, Islamic State, KSM, Marik String, material support, Military Commissions, National Security Law, outrageous government conduct, Rochin, SCOTUS, shocks the conscience, State Department Legal Advisor, United States v. Nixon, War Powers, West World, Westeros World
This week on the National Security Law Podcast, with co-hosts Bobby Chesney and Steve Vladeck: War Powers: Congressional testimony from the State Department’s Acting Legal Advisor confirms that the administration has placed AQIM on the list…
Episode 126: Sometimes, “Nothing” Is Important
- June 26, 2019
- Tagged as: 10 USC 394, Article II, Auer Deference, AUMF, Boumediene, confidential informant, counterterrorism, Curtiss-Wright, cyber, Cyber Command, CYBERCOM, DOJ NSD, Enemy Combatants, Federal Vacancies Reform Act, Fifth Amendment, GTMO, Guantanamo, habeas, Iran, ISIS, Islamic State, Johnson v. Eisentrager, Judge Millet, Judge Randolph, Justice Breyer, Kiyemba, material support, National Security Division, National Security Law, non-delegation doctrine, Pentagon, procedural due process, Qassim, SCOTUS, Secretary Esper, separation of powers, Supreme Court, Trump, Uighurs, War Powers, Westworld, Zadvydas
We are back with the latest in national security legal developments, with Professors Chesney and Vladeck agreeing where they can and arguing respectfully (and, let’s face it, nerdishly) where they can’t. On tap this week:…
Episode 125: Worst of Both Worlds
- June 18, 2019
- Tagged as: Active Cyber Defense Certainty Act, Article II, Borg, citizen rescue, CMCR, countermeasures, CYBERCOM, declaration of war, defense of nationals, double-jeopardy, GTMO, Guantanamo, hackback, hostage rescue, hostilities, internationally wrongful act, Iran, Libya, Military Commissions, Nashiri, national self defense, Persian Gulf of Tonkin, Rep. Graves, Russia, SCOTUS, separate sovereigns, sovereignty, stare decisis, STTNG, War Powers, WPR
We are back with the latest national security law news, with your co-hosts Steve Vladeck and Bobby Chesney explaining, debating, and–let’s face it–geeking out. This week we’ve got: War Powers: The latest events in the…