Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
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...
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 Che...
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 conse...
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...
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 see...
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. ...
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...
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 int...
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 w...
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 devel...
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 ...
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...
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 spiral...
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...
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 t...
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-Mirandize...
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 a...
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 ...
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...
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 epi...
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 expl...
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. Me...
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....
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 explo...
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 name...
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...
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 ...
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 1...
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 combina...
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 ...
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. Ada...
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 for...
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 ...
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 he...
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 r...
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 an...
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-...
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] ...
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...
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) b...
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 th...
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...
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 b...
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 Adm...
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 Administr...
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 ...