The NSL Podcast is a weekly review of the latest legal controversies associated with the U.S. government’s national security activities and institutions, featuring Professors Bobby Chesney and Steve Vladeck of the University of Texas at Austin. They bring different perspectives to these issues, but always in a friendly spirit. The program is fast-paced but detail-rich, and is meant for lawyers and non-lawyers alike. If you’ve been looking for a thoughtful yet enjoyable way to keep up with and better understand these issues, this is the show for you.
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Your favorite weekly show combining serious debate about the latest national-security legal developments with a healthy dose of frivolity is back!
Your favorite weekly show combining serious debate about the latest national-security legal developments with a healthy dose of frivolity is back!
This week on the National Security Law Podcast, we’ve got:
Unlike Rent Live, all of our personnel participated in this week’s show! We’ve got:
Welcome back to the National Security Law Podcast! Where else can you get both a preview of a looming surveillance law debate and a fine-grained debate about how best for the NFL to address blown calls? Well, maybe there’s no market for that … but here we are anyway!
This week on the National Security Law Podcast, co-hosts Bobby Chesney and Steve Vladeck are joined by Michel Paradis (lead counsel for the defense in the al-Nashiri military commission case) and Capt. Brian Mizer (learned counsel for the defense in that case). Tune in for an extensive discussion of the upcoming D.C. Circuit argument (Jan.
If your New Year’s Resolution involves finding a podcast exploring the legal aspects of major national security events and institutions, we are here to help! Start of 2019 the right way with our first episode of the year. We’ve got:
Deep-dive alert!
That’s right, we are closing out 2018 with a deep-dive episode on the State Secrets Privilege. From Totten to Reynolds and on to the present day, you’ll want to tune in for this hour-long exploration of the nature, history, and issues associated with ye ol’ State Secrets Privilege!
As for the frivolity? Let’s just say that if you are not a fan of Chevy Chase, you’ll want to skip the final segment.
Interested in the views of Once and Future Attorney General Bill Barr on questions like the power of the president to initiate a war, remove officials, and other hot separation of powers topics? We read his oral history so you don’t have to, along with some other writings, and we unpack it all for you here in Episode 103. For good measure, we’ve also got a close look at the latest GTMO habeas litigant to attempt (vainly, we suspect) to get the attention of SCOTUS, along with notes on recent uses of force in Somalia, DRPK sanctions out of Treasury, and the arrest of the Huawei CFO in Canad
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: