The National Security Law Podcast: Good … and Terrible!

Robert Chesney, Steve Vladeck
Thursday, April 1, 2021, 3:25 PM

Published by The Lawfare Institute
in Cooperation With
Brookings

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 Vladeck and Bobby Chesney discuss:

  • The return of the PPG? The Biden administration reinstates, for now, certain rules regarding the use of lethal force outside areas of active hostilities. Will it last? Does it matter?
  • AUMF reform: the 2002 (and 1991!) AUMF version
  • AUMF reform: the 2001 AUMF version
  • The prospects for a “covert” response against Russian networks in relation to SolarWinds, and whether that makes any sense
  • Steve’s (apparently brutal) oral argument before the CAAF today

Oh, and apparently there is a sequel to Coming to America? Maybe they should have tried a bit harder on that one ….


Robert (Bobby) Chesney is the Dean of the University of Texas School of Law, where he also holds the James A. Baker III Chair in the Rule of Law and World Affairs at UT. He is known internationally for his scholarship relating both to cybersecurity and national security. He is a co-founder of Lawfare, the nation’s leading online source for analysis of national security legal issues, and he co-hosts the popular show The National Security Law Podcast.
Steve Vladeck is a professor of law at the University of Texas School of Law. A 2004 graduate of Yale Law School, Steve clerked for Judge Marsha Berzon on the Ninth Circuit and Judge Rosemary Barkett on the Eleventh Circuit. In addition to serving as a senior editor of the Journal of National Security Law & Policy, Steve is also the co-editor of Aspen Publishers’ leading National Security Law and Counterterrorism Law casebooks.

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