War Powers
Remembering the Bay of Pigs: Law and Covert War
Matthew Waxman Tue, Apr 16, 2019, 8:00 AM
A 1962 Justice Department memo offers a rare glimpse of the legal rationale for covert warfare.
Matthew Waxman is a law professor at Columbia Law School, where he co-chairs the Program on Law and National Security. He is also co-chair of the Cybersecurity Center at Columbia University’s Data Science Institute, as well as Adjunct Senior Fellow for Law and Foreign Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations. He previously served in senior policy positions at the State Department, Defense Department, and National Security Council. After graduating from Yale Law School, he clerked for Judge Joel M. Flaum of the U.S. Court of Appeals and Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter
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War Powers
Remembering Eisenhower’s Middle East Force Resolution
Matthew Waxman Sat, Mar 9, 2019, 10:00 AM
In 1957, Congress granted President Eisenhower authorization to use force in the Middle East. The law is still on the books 62 years later.
War Powers
Remembering Eisenhower’s Formosa AUMF
Matthew Waxman Tue, Jan 29, 2019, 8:34 AM
Eisenhower believed that a congressional authorization of force, including the possible use of nuclear weapons, to protect Taiwan from Communist China would help prevent all-out war from breaking out across the Taiwan Strait.
War Powers
Remembering the Ludlow Amendment
Matthew Waxman Thu, Jan 10, 2019, 8:00 AM
Jan. 10 marks 81 years since Congress defeated a proposed constitutional amendment to add a referendum requirement to the war declaration power.
Executive Power
The Anniversary of the Monroe Doctrine
Matthew Waxman Sun, Dec 2, 2018, 9:19 AM
The Monroe Doctrine is a momentous example of the president’s vast constitutional power to set and communicate U.S. foreign policy—to include threatening war.
Book Reviews
Presidents and War Powers
Matthew Waxman Thu, Nov 15, 2018, 2:29 PM
A review of Michael Beschloss, “Presidents of War” (Crown Books, 2018).
Armistice Day
When Did World War I End?
Matthew Waxman Sun, Nov 11, 2018, 11:00 AM
Nov. 11 is the centennial Armistice Day, remembered as the day the Great War ended, but as a matter of U.S. domestic law, it dragged on for three more years.