This week on the National Security Law Podcast, we’ve got: A heavy pace of airstrikes against al Shabaab targets in Somalia Ruminations on declining media attention (and the prospect of a sharper dropoff soon) to…
Episode 108: Is It Arnold Palmer or Iced Tea-Lemonade?
- January 30, 2019
- Tagged as: 2339B, 5000 troops, Afghanistan, anti-AUMF, AUMF, Colombia, Denmark, diplomatic recognition, Director Coats, Green Desert, GTMO, Guantanamo, habeas, Hamilton, hostage rescue, Huawei, hybrid model, IEEPA, Iran Sanctions, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Ludecke, Maduro, material support, military detention, national emergency, NDAA, NEA, ODNI, protection of nationals, Rent Live, Ronald W. Reagan NDAA, sanctions, SDF, Section 1021, Super Bowl, T-Mobile, Taliban, Tappy, troop cap, Venezuela, Warren Christopher Clark, Warren Clark, Warsame, wire fraud
Unlike Rent Live, all of our personnel participated in this week’s show! We’ve got: The Venezuela Crisis: International Law complications with dueling recognitions More Venezuela: “5,000 Troops to Colombia” and Section 1021 of the Ronald…
Episode 102: This Podcast Is Bowl-Eligible
- December 5, 2018
- Tagged as: 2339B, Attorney General Whitaker, bitcoin, Burr, CMCR, College Football Playoffs, D.C. Circuit, Guantanamo, hostilities, Houthis, ISIS, Islamic State, Judge Spath, KSA, mandamus, material support, Michael Cohen, Michael Flynn, Military Commissions, National Security Law, NSL, OFAC, ransomware, sanctions, SCOTUS, SSCI, Sugar Bowl, Trumplandia, War Powers, Warner, Yemen
It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Or at least it’s the most wonderful time of the week, for we’ve just posted the latest episode of National Security Law Podcast! Tune in for: Military…
Episode 83: [Steve] Is the Kiss of Death
- July 25, 2018
- Tagged as: Ambassador McFaul, Article II, Brad Moss, Carter Page, death penalty, Doe v. Mattis, Dwayne Johnson, extradition, FBI, FISA, FISC, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, Goldberg v. Kelly, GTMO, Guantanamo, Ibraheem Musaibli, IS, Islamic State, Lawfare, material support, military commission, military detention, MLAT, Moana, mutual legal assistance, National Security Law, probable cause, procedural due process, Russia, Samantha Elhassani, SDF, security clearance, Syria, the Beatles, The Rock, Valentine, verification, warrant, Woods Procedures
Welcome to the latest National Security Law Podcast episode. Though Steve and Bobby both have been moonlighting (here is Steve on the Lawfare Podcast and here’s Bobby on the Cyber Law Podcast), there’s no place like…
Episode 50: The Big Chill
- December 19, 2017
- Tagged as: Abu Khattala, ACLU v. Mattis, Benghazi, Executive Privilege, Fourth Amendment, GSA, habeas, habeas corpus, Langhoffer, material support, movie soundtracks, Mueller, Presidential Transition Act, Section 702, Special Counsel, Stored Communications Act, terrorism prosecution, Trump
Are your other podcasts letting you down by taking a holiday break? Never fear, National Security Law Podcast is here! With two host who would much rather be podcasting than grading exams, you are assured…
Episode 37: Enemy Combatants, Agents of Foreign Powers
- September 19, 2017
- Tagged as: 2001 AUMF, Agent of a Foreign Power, AUMF, Authorization for Use of Military Force, electronic surveillance, Enemy Combatant, FISA, FISC, FISC Order, GTMO, Guantanamo, habeas, Hamdi, indictment, IS, Islamic State, Kings of the Wyld, material support, Military Commissions, Mueller, Nicholas Eames, Paul Manafort, SCOTUS, Star Trek, Star Trek Discovery, Star Trek II, Travel Ban, UT Football, wiretap
In this week’s episode, Professors Chesney and Vladeck explore three big national security law developments from the past few days. First up: the news that the FISC, on two separate occasions, issued orders authorizing surveillance…
Episode 34: January 2019 as the Start of the 9/11 Trial: Over/Under?
- September 5, 2017
- Tagged as: 2339B, 9/11 trial, Administrative Procedures Act, APA, college football, DACA, DAPA, Deferred Action, designated foreign terrorist organizations, Domestic Terrorism, FBI, GTMO, Guantanamo, IS, Islamic State, Judge Pohl, material support, Military Commissions, Presidential Power, Sessions, Take Care Clause, Trump
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…
Episode 31: We Were Not Mirandized Until Halfway Through This Podcast
- August 16, 2017
- Tagged as: 2331, 2339A, Abu Khattalah, arraignment, Charlottesville, clean team, Common Article 3, Domestic Terrorism, Dreamhost, Fawaz Yunis, Game of Thrones, HIG, High-Value Interrogation Group, material support, Miranda, motion to suppress, Oklahoma City, Operation Goldenrod, presentment, Quarles, Rule 5, Search Warrant, terrorism, Timothy McVeigh, voluntariness
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…
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…
Episode 25: So Much National Security Law News…We’ve Reached Our Limitrophe
- June 28, 2017
- Tagged as: Aburakhmon Uzbeki, AQI, Bivens, Black Sites, Chris Paul, civil liability, Convening Authority, Establishment Clause, ETF, executive order, Expeditionary Targeting Force, extraterritorial, FARA, foreign agent registration, Fourth Amendment, GTMO, Guantanamo, Hambali, Harvey Rishikoff, Hernandez v. Mesa, Indiana Jones, Iran, Iraq, IS, ISIL, ISIS, Islamic State, Justice Breyer, limitrophe, material support, Military Commissions, Paul Manafort, qualified immunity, SCOTUS, SOF, Syria, Travel Ban, Trump, Trump v. IRAP, UAE, Yemen
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…


