And we’re back, with yet another interminable window of extemporaneous frivolity at the front end of what otherwise is a somewhat serious show about the latest national security law developments and debates (seriously). Listen up…
Some of y’all were wondering if the show was done-for now that co-host Bobby Chesney has been named the next dean of the University of Texas School of Law. But as it turns out, the…
And we’re back! Tune in as Professors Bobby Chesney and Steve Vladeck discuss and debate: ICC jurisdiction over war crimes on Ukraine’s territory Limits on sharing tactical intel and arms? The Neutrality Act and its…
We are back with a fresh episode, hot on the heels of Russia’s latest incursion into Ukraine. Tune in as we survey some of the legal dimensions to this latest development (including discussion of the…
Episode 213: Most Likely to Engage in a Seditious Conspiracy
- January 19, 2022
- Tagged as: Article 2(4), civil conspiracy, collective self-defense, Executive Privilege, GTMO, Insurrection, Jim Carrey, military commission, NFL, organized militia, Periodic Review Board, PRB, presidential immunity, Russia, seditious conspiracy, Thompson v. Trump, Trump v. Thompson, Ukraine, UN Charter, unorganized militia
Seeing as how 2022 is well underway, it’s probably about time we produced a new episode! Tune in for co-hosts Steve Vladeck and Bobby Chesney as they discuss and debate: The various international and domestic…
Episode 144: Lawful But Awful
- November 20, 2019
- Tagged as: administrative stay, AG Barr, Attorney General Barr, Boumediene, Chief Justice Roberts, deference, Executive Power, Federalist Society, Federative Power, Impeachment inquiry, John Locke, Mandalorian, Mazars, Muthana, pardons, political question doctrine, SCOTUS, Sondland, Subpoena, The Crown, Trump, UCMJ, Ukraine, Vindman, war crimes, Zelensky
Episode 144 is here! It was no easy task to sort out which topics to discuss this week, but in the end the Trumplandia segment prevailed over almost all the others. The end result? Tune…
Episode 123: Our Gym Was Named for the Espionage Act Guy???
- May 28, 2019
- Tagged as: Bivens, Border Wall, cross-border shooting, Espionage Act, First Amendment, Hamas, Hernandez v. Mesa, ITLOS, Judge Ellis, Judge Gilliam, Julian Assange, Kerch Strait, Mark Domingo, material support, Pentagon Papers, Russia, SCOTUS, Section 2808, Section 284, Sierra Club v. Trump, Thomas Watt Gregory, Ukraine, UNCLOS, United States v. Domingo, United States v. Rosen, United States v. Xie
In a final episode before taking a one-week travel break, co-hosts Bobby Chesney and Steve Vladeck discuss and debate an array of recent national security law developments including: Assange & the Espionage Act: DOJ has…
Episode 101: “To me, [this podcast] is perfect”
- November 27, 2018
- Tagged as: arms dealer, Billy Mack, border, border wars, cabinet order, cert. before judgment, Chemical Weapons Convention, Chief of Staff Kelly, Crime, CWC, drone strikes, extradition, Hungary, John Kelly, Kerch Strait, Love Actually, Lyubishin, Noel Francisco, PCA, Posse Comitatus Act, POWs, public display of prisoners, RCA, Riot Control Agents, ROE, Russia, Sea of Azov, Solicitor General, Spencer Ackerman, Tear Gas, Ukraine
And we’re back, full of turkey and much else besides! We hope you all had a restful and grateful Thanksgiving (or, for our non-American listeners, that you had a wonderful ordinary work week), and are…