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The Mike Lewis Prize for National Security Law Scholarship

Call for Nominations: 2020 Mike Lewis Prize for National Security Law Scholarship

Robert Chesney Wed, Oct 7, 2020, 10:40 AM

The Strauss Center for International Security and Law at the University of Texas at Austin and Ohio Northern University’s Pettit College of Law (ONU), in consultation with the American Association of Law Schools (AALS) Section on National Security Law, have established the Mike Lewis Prize for National Security Law Scholarship. The prize honors Professor Mike Lewis of ONU, a much-loved colleague and prolific scholar who passed away in 2015.

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Biodefense

Public Disclosure of Presidential Illnesses: The Discouraging History

David Priess Fri, Oct 2, 2020, 7:48 PM

History provides plenty of reason to believe that the public will not receive thorough updates about President Trump’s health following his diagnosis with COVID-19.

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Executive Power

The Imaginary Unitary Executive

Jed Handelsman Shugerman Mon, Jul 6, 2020, 8:54 AM

Contrary to the “Decision of 1789” myth, history shows that the first Congress rejected the exclusive unitary model of the presidency—and thus the presidential removal power should be subject to more congressional control than recent Supreme Court decisions have held.

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Scholarship

Summer 2020 Supplement for 'Bradley, Deeks, & Goldsmith, Foreign Relations Law: Cases and Materials'

Jack Goldsmith Thu, Jul 2, 2020, 2:18 PM

The Summer 2020 Supplement for Bradley, Deeks, & Goldsmith, Foreign Relations Law: Cases and Materials (7th ed. 2020) is now available on Lawfare.

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Federal Law Enforcement

How Presidents Talk About Deploying the Military in the United States

Richard Altieri, Margaret Taylor Tue, Jun 16, 2020, 8:14 AM

How does the rhetoric of past presidents who have deployed federal troops to enforce domestic law compare to President Trump’s?

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military history

Fifty-Seven Years Later: America’s Worst Nuclear Submarine Disaster

Robert Eatinger Fri, Apr 10, 2020, 11:54 AM

Much of the information about the loss of the USS Thresher and the Navy’s subsequent investigation has remained outside of public view. That may change this year.

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Foreign Policy

A Foreign Policy Toward Warlords

Daniel Byman, Israa Saber Mon, Mar 30, 2020, 9:20 AM

Warlords are often necessary tools of statecraft, but support for them often comes at the expense of building a functioning central government.

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War Powers

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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Scholarship

Winter 2019 Supplement for 'Bradley, Deeks, & Goldsmith, Foreign Relations Law: Cases and Materials'

Jack Goldsmith Mon, Dec 9, 2019, 10:02 AM

Summer 2019 Supplement for Bradley, Deeks, & Goldsmith, Foreign Relations Law: Cases and Materials (6th ed. 2017) is now available on Lawfare.

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War Powers

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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Scholarship

The Mike Lewis Prize for National Security Law Scholarship

Call for Nominations: 2020 Mike Lewis Prize for National Security Law Scholarship

Biodefense

Public Disclosure of Presidential Illnesses: The Discouraging History

Executive Power

The Imaginary Unitary Executive

Scholarship

Summer 2020 Supplement for 'Bradley, Deeks, & Goldsmith, Foreign Relations Law: Cases and Materials'

Federal Law Enforcement

How Presidents Talk About Deploying the Military in the United States

military history

Fifty-Seven Years Later: America’s Worst Nuclear Submarine Disaster

Foreign Policy

A Foreign Policy Toward Warlords

War Powers

The Tyler Doctrine and War Powers

Scholarship

Winter 2019 Supplement for 'Bradley, Deeks, & Goldsmith, Foreign Relations Law: Cases and Materials'

War Powers

A Roundtable on War Powers Reform

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