War Powers
Eisenhower and War Powers
Matthew Waxman Fri, Sep 18, 2020, 8:01 AM
Eisenhower never initiated a major armed conflict. Still, his administration offers critical insight for modern war powers questions.
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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National Security Law Lectures
Robert Chesney, Matthew Waxman Wed, Sep 2, 2020, 12:51 PM
Lawfare’s Bobby Chesney and Matt Waxman have launched “The National Security Law Lectures”: a free series of lectures on an array of national security law topics.
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Remembering the Montgomery Ward Seizure: FDR and War Production Powers
Matthew Waxman, Samuel Weitzman Sat, Apr 25, 2020, 8:33 AM
On its anniversary, the Montgomery Ward episode is a stark reminder of what unleashing wartime government power over industry has actually looked like.
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The Mexican-American War and Constitutional War Powers
Matthew Waxman Sun, Feb 2, 2020, 11:00 AM
The outcome of the war—and the means necessary to achieve it—led to the war’s most noteworthy constitutional precedents.
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The Tyler Doctrine and War Powers
Matthew Waxman Mon, Dec 30, 2019, 9:00 AM
The Millard Fillmore administration’s diplomatic machinations toward Hawaii are a curious example of the executive branch regarding itself as constitutionally empowered to threaten war but constrained from unilaterally carrying out that threat.
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A Roundtable on War Powers Reform
Scott R. Anderson, Matthew Waxman Fri, Nov 15, 2019, 10:28 AM
A new set of essays explores the state and possible trajectory of modern war powers.
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Daniel Webster, War Powers and Bird$h*t
Matthew Waxman Wed, Aug 21, 2019, 8:00 AM
In the course of researching a book, I’ve come across many episodes that Benjamin Wittes and I like to call “Weird War Powers $h*t.” One of my favorites is a story about American constitutional war powers and actual $h*t. It’s a story about very expensive bird-$h*t, or guano, and how one of the 19th century’s most important thinkers on war powers nearly stumbled the nation, figuratively speaking, into a giant pile of it.
Daniel Webster and War Powers