The National Security Law Podcast
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Episode 46: The $15 Million Dollar Man
16 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's episode, your devoted hosts dig into a bonanza of national security law odds-and-ends. First up is an en banc decision by the Foreig...
Episode 45: An Inter-Jurisdictional Cluster-You-Know-What?
07 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Has it only been a week? Yeesh. Well, we are back! In this episode, Professors Vladeck and Chesney focus on three topics: The Mueller inves...
Episode 44: Interrogation, Prosecution, and Detention Issues in the Wake of the NYC Attack
01 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
We are back, one day after dropping episode 43, with an emergency podcast discussion the legal consequences of the horrific attack that occurred in Ne...
Episode 43: Unseal this Podcast!
31 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
It's been a busy week in national security law! In Episode 43, Professors Chesney and Vladeck take on: Mueller-Time: Indictments against Manafo...
Episode 42: The Magic Bullet Travel Ban(d)
24 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week Professors Chesney and Vladeck start with a close look at Smith v. Trump, a case that seeks a judicial ruling on whether the Islamic State ...
Episode 41: Han Shot First
17 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
If you were unsure about whether your hosts are geeks, this episode will help settle the question. But before we get to what Professors Chesney and ...
Episode 40: It’s a Conspiracy
10 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's episode, Professors Chesney and Vladeck zero in on four recent developments involving law and national security. First, they explore...
Episode 39: It Is More Likely Than Not That Our FARRA Discussion Will Bore You
04 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
If you have ever wondered what statutes, constitutional principles, and judicial precedents come into play when the U.S. government contemplates trans...
Episode 38: How Did We Get Through This One Without Saying “Posse Comitatus”?
27 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Seriously, how did they manage not to say "posse comitatus" during this episode? Sigh. In this week's episode, Professors Vladeck and Chesney do t...
Episode 37: Enemy Combatants, Agents of Foreign Powers
19 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's episode, Professors Chesney and Vladeck explore three big national security law developments from the past few days. First up: the n...
Episode 36: NSA General Counsel Glenn Gerstell on Section 702
14 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
We have a special treat in this off-cycle episode! NSA GC Glenn Gerstell is in Austin to speak to our students here at UT, and (no doubt against his...
Episode 35: Will This Be the Year of Military Courts at the Supreme Court?
12 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Will this year's Supreme Court term be packed with cases relating to military courts? In this week's show, Professors Chesney and Vladeck explore th...
Episode 34: January 2019 as the Start of the 9/11 Trial: Over/Under?
05 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In today's episode, Professors Chesney and Vladeck spend time with three legal topics (before spiraling off into some ill-informed commentary on the c...
Episode 33: How About a Presidential Pardon…For This Episode
30 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's episode, Professors Chesney and Vladeck take advantage of a relatively quiet week for national security law developments in order to ra...
Episode 32: Back to the Future…of Afghanistan and GTMO?
22 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Never a dull moment in 2017. In this week's episode, Professors Vladeck and Chesney take on four topics (well, four relevant topics...do try to st...
Episode 31: We Were Not Mirandized Until Halfway Through This Podcast
16 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's episode, Professors Chesney and Vladeck make a whole series of blatantly un-Mirandized statements about some of the latest national sec...
Episode 30: Don’t Pop the Accountability Champagne Quite Yet
08 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this bizarrely-titled episode (ok, they pretty much all have bizarre titles, Professors Vladeck and Chesney take on four national security law deve...
Episode 29: Military Commissions, Military Officers in the Cabinet, the Laws of War, and More
01 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This week's episode certainly has a military theme. Professors Chesney and Vladeck start off with a surprisingly (or is it disturbingly?) lengthy di...
Episode 28: The North Remembers…the Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998???
25 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's episode, Professors Chesney and Vladeck focus on two subjects: the extradition of Ali Damache and what it might portend for Trump admin...
Episode 27: The AUMF: All You Ever Wanted to Know (and Plenty You Didn’t)
17 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Want a thorough backgrounder on the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force? This is the episode for you. (This also is the episode for you if...
Episode 26: The Impenetrable Podcast Unit
11 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In today's episode, Professors Chesney and Vladeck focus on three sets of issues. First, they explore the D.C. Circuit's June 30th ruling in Jaber ...
Episode 25: So Much National Security Law News…We’ve Reached Our Limitrophe
28 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Had you seen the word "limitrophe" before Justice Breyer used it in his dissent in Herndandez v. Mesa? Neither had Professors Vladeck and Chesney, bu...
Episode 24: An AUMF for Westeros?
20 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In today's episode, Professors Chesney and Vladeck discuss the Supreme Court's decision in Ziglar v. Abbasi in more detail than you could possibly wan...
Episode 23: She Could Be the Ruckelshaus to Rosenstein’s Richardson
13 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Professors Vladeck and Chesney come up with a tongue-twister of a title while exploring the legal fallout from the Comey testimony la...
Episode 22: A Dose of Reality
06 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Professors Chesney and Vladeck have a full plate. The arrest of a contractor named Reality Winner (for having stolen classified in...
Episode 21: A Military Commissions Deep Dive
31 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is a bit different than normal. Instead of tearing through the latest developments in the wide world of national security law, Professo...
Episode 20: The Executive Branch’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good Very Bad Week in Court
25 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
It has only been a few days since Episode 19, but Steve and Bobby are worried that fellow national security law geeks won't have enough @nslpodcast t...
Episode 19: Inherent Contempt Works Better With a Congressional Jail
22 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
School's out for summer...but the National Security Law Podcast keeps trucking along. In Episode 19, we find that the suddenly-student-less professo...
Episode 18: Disclosing Secrets to the Russians Makes Me WannaCry
16 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The guys came back to the office tonight for a rare evening recording session, inspired by a combination of hot-off-the-presses news about the preside...
Episode 17: On the Firing of Jim Comey
10 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Yes Episode 16 just dropped yesterday, but given the firing of Jim Comey we felt duty bound to get back to the microphones ASAP. And so here you wi...
Episode 16: Authorizing Force Against the Islamic State
09 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Professors Vladeck and Chesney walk listeners through a recent proposal by Rep. Adam Schiff to replace the 2001 and 2002 AUMFs with a...
Episode 15: Skirmishes in the Surveillance Wars
03 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this surveillance-heavy episode, Professors Chesney and Vladeck dig into a raft of news about foreign-intelligence collection authorities. They o...
Episode 14: Potential Assange Charges, and More From Some Island in the Pacific
26 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Professors Chesney and Vladeck run through the array of potential criminal charges against Julian Assange and Wikileaks (in light of...
Episode 13: This Podcast Did Not Go Through the VEP But We Are Releasing It Anyway
19 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Listeners who are tired of listening to just Professors Vladeck and Chesney on this show can take heart! This week they are joined by special guest ...
Episode 12: R2P From Above? The Shayrat Airfield Strike and More
11 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Professors Chesney and Vladeck go deep into the weeds regarding the legal issues raised by President Trump's decision to launch miss...
Episode 11: All of This Has Happened Before, and Will Happen Again
05 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In today's episode, Professors Vladeck and Chesney come to grips yet again with surveillance law and policy issues thanks to the ever-fascinating Tru...
Episode 10: Is This Podcast Cert-Worthy?
29 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this hour-long episode, Professors Steve Vladeck and Bobby Chesney open by unpacking the ins-and-outs of two Guantanamo military commissions cases ...
Episode 9: [USperson 1] and [USperson 2] Discuss [Redacted]
24 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, [USperson 1] and [USperson 2] discuss whether the law was violated by [USperson 3] when [he/she] spoke to [USpersons 4-17] about alle...
Episode 8: March Madness
17 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 8 (about 58 minutes long) finds Professors Vladeck and Chesney discussing the legal, policy, and institutional issues raised by reports that ...
Episode 7: The Less Prep the Better
08 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Professors Chesney and Vladeck live up to their new motto (see the episode title) by wading into the confusion surrounding a pair of ...
Episode 6: A Sessions Session
02 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Professors Vladeck and Chesney get into the weeds of the controversy surrounding the statements Attorney General Sessions made during...
Episode 5: Does this Podcast Apply Extraterritorially?
21 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Professors Chesney and Vladeck consider whether the Supreme Court is poised to use a border-shooting case (Hernandez v. Mesa) to ex...
Episode 4: A New Hope
16 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Professors Vladeck and Chesney come to grips with a number of legal issues raised by the Mike Flynn story. What the heck is the Lo...
Episode 3: Sometimes an Executive Order Is Really Just…An Invitation to Talk about AUMFs and Habeas Corpus
09 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Professors Chesney and Vladeck dive deep into the latest iteration of the Trump Administration’s draft executive order on military ...
Episode 2: If You Thought That Last Executive Order Was Controversial…
31 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Professors Vladeck and Chesney focus on two major developments: the Trump Administration’s sudden decision to suspend entry into th...
Episode 1: What the World Needs Now Is a New Podcast
25 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In the first episode, Professors Bobby Chesney and Steve Vladeck walk listeners through some of the key issues raised by an alleged draft executive or...