The Lawfare Institute
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The Lawfare Podcast features discussions with experts, policymakers, and opinion leaders at the nexus of national security, law, and policy. On issues from foreign policy, homeland security, intelligence, and cybersecurity to governance and law, we have doubled down on seriousness at a time when others are running away from it. Visit us at www.lawfaremedia.org. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Jul 11, 2026
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Trump Trials and Tribulations: N.Y. Trial Dispatch (May 13, 2024) 14.05.2024 29:10
It's Trump's Trials and Tribulations, New York Trial Dispatch, May 13 Roger Parloff sat down with Benjamin Wittes, Anna Bower, and Tyler McBrien to discuss what happened in the courtroom today. The podcast was edited by Noam Osband of Goat Rodeo. Our theme song is from Alibi Music. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Lawfare Archive: A Band-Aid for a Bomber: Is Medical Assistance to Terrorists Protected Under IHL? 12.05.2024 29:37
From September 12, 2015: On this week’s Lawfare Podcast, Benjamin Wittes sits down with Professor Gabriella Blum, professor at Harvard Law School, and Dustin Lewis, a senior researcher at Harvard Law Schools’ Program on International Law and Armed Conflict, to discuss their new report written with Naz Modirzadeh entitled Medical Care in Armed Conflict: IHL and State Responses to Terrorism ....
Lawfare Archive: After Trump, Episode 4: Prosecuting a President 11.05.2024 37:37
From May 3, 2021: In the fourth episode of “After Trump,” the six-part limited podcast series based on the book, " After Trump: Reconstructing the Presidency ," by Bob Bauer and Jack Goldsmith, we explore how and when a president is held to account for wild and sometimes criminal behavior. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Trump Trials and Tribulations: N.Y. Trial Dispatch (May 10, 2024) 11.05.2024 31:41
It's Trump's Trials and Tribulations, New York Trial Dispatch, May 10. Roger Parloff sat down with Benjamin Wittes, Anna Bower, and Business Insider's Jacob Shamsian to discuss what happened in the courtroom today. The podcast was edited by Noam Osband of Goat Rodeo. Our theme song is from Alibi Music. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Lawfare Daily: David Pozen on ‘The Constitution of the War on Drugs’ 10.05.2024 54:33
David Pozen is the Charles Keller Beekman Professor of Law at Columbia Law School and the author of the new book , “The Constitution of the War on Drugs,” which examines the relationship between the Constitution and drug prohibitions. He joined Jack Goldsmith to talk about the constitutional history of the war on drugs and why the drug war was not curbed by constitutional doctrines about personal...
Trump Trials and Tribulations: N.Y. Trial Dispatch (May 9, 2024) 10.05.2024 30:29
It's Trump's Trials and Tribulations, New York Trial Dispatch, May 9. Quinta Jurecic sat down with Tyler McBrien and Anna Bower to discuss what happened in the courtroom today. The podcast was edited by Noam Osband of Goat Rodeo. Our theme song is from Alibi Music. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Rational Security: The “B- B-Roll” Edition 09.05.2024 1:17:28
This week, Alan, Quinta, and Scott were joined by Lawfare ’s Fellow in Technology Policy and Law Eugenia Lostri, to to hash through the week’s big national security news, including: “Digital Solid Parody.” The Biden administration is making major moves when it comes to emerging technologies, with Secretary of State Antony Blinken rolling out a new multilateral strategy for “digital solidarity” thi...
Lawfare Daily: Trump Trials and Tribulations Weekly Round-up (May 8, 2024) 09.05.2024 1:11:22
This episode of “Trump's Trials and Tribulations,” was recorded on May 8 in front of a live audience on YouTube and Zoom. Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes talked to Lawfare Senior Editor Roger Parloff, Managing Editor Tyler McBrien, and Legal Fellow and Courts Correspondent Anna Bower about Judge Cannon’s order suspending the trial start date of May...
Lawfare Daily: Juliette Kayyem on the New Critical Infrastructure Memo 08.05.2024 30:00
The White House on April 30 released a “ National Security Memorandum on Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience .” According to the White House, the memo marks the beginning of a new comprehensive initiative to safeguard U.S. infrastructure against current threats and those on the horizon. The Department of Homeland Security is tasked with leading this effort—through coordination with oth...
Trump Trials and Tribulations: N.Y. Trial Dispatch (May 7, 2024) 08.05.2024 30:02
It's Trump's Trials and Tribulations, New York Trial Dispatch, May 7. Roger Parloff sat down with Tyler McBrien, Benjamin Wittes, and Claire Meynial to discuss what happened in the courtroom today. The podcast was edited by Noam Osband of Goat Rodeo. Our theme song is from Alibi Music. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Chatter: Phantom Orbit with Journalist David Ignatius 07.05.2024 1:02:10
David Ignatius has worked at the Washington Post for more than 35 years in various roles and won many awards. He has written a column on foreign affairs for 25 years and reported some of the most significant national security stories over the last couple of decades. And he has done it while pumping out best-selling spy thrillers. Lawfare Research fellow Matt Gluck spoke with Ignatius about h...
Lawfare Daily: Wargaming’s Past, Present, and Future with Andrew Reddie 07.05.2024 37:54
Andrew Reddie is an Associate Research Professor of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, and the founder and faculty director of the Berkeley Risk and Security Lab. Lawfare Managing Editor Tyler McBrien spoke with Andrew about wargaming as a tool to manage risk from war to climate—and beyond. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Trump Trials and Tribulations: N.Y. Trial Dispatch (May 6, 2024) 07.05.2024 30:40
It's Trump's Trials and Tribulations, New York Trial Dispatch, May 6. Roger Parloff sat down with Tyler McBrien, Benjamin Wittes, and Anna Bower to discuss what happened in the courtroom today. The podcast was edited by Noam Osband of Goat Rodeo. Our theme song is from Alibi Music. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Lawfare Daily: Benjamin Wittes on Israel, Gaza, and Implications for U.S. Foreign and Domestic Policy 06.05.2024 1:20:29
On April 24, Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes delivered a Watson Distinguished Lecture at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University to discuss the Israel-Gaza war and the implications for U.S. foreign and domestic policy. He talked about Israel’s incompatible objectives of freeing hostages and eradicating Hamas, the moral context of the war, U.S.-Israeli...
Lawfare Archive: Alex Vindman on the Escalation in Ukraine 05.05.2024 38:10
From April 9, 2021: Tensions are heating up between Russia and Ukraine, seven years after the seizure by the Russians of the Crimean Peninsula and the incursions into Eastern Ukraine. With troop movements and some saber rattling, is Vladimir Putin trying to send a message to Joe Biden, or perhaps to Ukrainian President Zelensky? Is he trying to satisfy domestic constituencies or distract them? Ben...
Lawfare Archive: Natan Sachs on Bibi's Big Day in Washington 04.05.2024 26:02
From March 7, 2015: This week, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a controversial address to a joint session of Congress in a move not coordinated with President Barack Obama. The speech, repeatedly interrupted by thunderous applause, focused on the nature of the developing nuclear accord between the P5+1 and Iran and insisted a better deal was possib...
Trump Trials and Tribulations: N.Y. Trial Dispatch (May 3, 2024) 04.05.2024 30:14
It's Trump's Trials and Tribulations, New York Trial Dispatch, May 3. Benjamin Wittes sat down with Tyler McBrien and Anna Bower to discuss what happened in the courtroom today. The podcast was edited by Ian Enright of Goat Rodeo. Our theme song is from Alibi Music. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Lawfare Daily: Domestic Deployment of the National Guard 03.05.2024 1:21:14
Over the past several years, governors around the country from both political parties have used their respective National Guards for an increasingly unconventional array of domestic missions, ranging from teaching in public schools to regulating immigration at the southern border. To discuss how this trend may impact the National Guard—and our broader democracy, particularly in this pivotal electi...
Trump Trials and Tribulations: N.Y. Trial Dispatch (May 2, 2024) 03.05.2024 30:16
It's Trump's Trials and Tribulations, New York Trial Dispatch, May 2. Benjamin Wittes sat down with Tyler McBrien and Anna Bower to discuss what happened in the courtroom today. The podcast was edited by Ian Enright of Goat Rodeo. Our theme song is from Alibi Music. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Rational Security: The “RatSecapella” Edition 02.05.2024 1:15:41
This week, Alan, Quinta, and Scott were joined by Lawfare Contributing Editor Eric Ciaramella to talk through the week’s big natsec stories, including: “Not Done Nyet.” U.S. foreign assistance is finally on its way to Ukraine, along with additional support from European allies. But will it be enough to solidify or advance the beleaguered Ukrainian military’s position? What is the state of the...
Trump Trials and Tribulations: Weekly Round-Up (May 1, 2024) 02.05.2024 1:25:12
It's another episode of “Trump's Trials and Tribulations,” recorded on May 1 in front of a live audience on YouTube and Zoom. Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Legal Fellow Anna Bower and Lawfare Senior Editors Roger Parloff and Quinta Jurecic to talk about state-level prosecutions of "fake electors," what Judge Cannon is up to...
The Aftermath S2E5 - With Liberty and Justice for Some 02.05.2024 1:19:07
The fate of Donald Trump and the Jan. 6 prisoners are intertwined. The prisoners' biggest hope for freedom is if Donald Trump wins the 2024 election, takes office and makes the federal cases go away. But the people who stormed the Capitol committed straightforward crimes that were easier to investigate, easier to indict, easier to prove. Three years after Jan. 6, the story of how they have been he...
Lawfare Daily: Protecting Information and Communications Technology and Services, with Director Elizabeth Cannon 02.05.2024 43:11
What do port cranes, TikTok, artificial intelligence, and connected vehicles have in common? They may all be subject to regulation by a new office within the Department of Commerce: the Office of Information and Communications Technology and Services (OICTS). Between 2019 and 2023, the president issued multiple executive orders aimed at securing the United States' information and commun...
Lawfare Daily: Dmitri Alperovitch on ‘World on the Brink’ 01.05.2024 56:54
Dmitri Alperovitch is the author, with Garrett Graff, of the new book , “World on the Brink: How America Can Beat China in the Race for the Twenty-First Century.” He’s also the cofounder and chairman of Silverado Policy Accelerator. He joined Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes to discuss the book, tensions in the Taiwan Strait, deterring China from invading Taiwan, and the history of what Dmi...
Trump Trials and Tribulations: N.Y. Trial Dispatch (Apr. 30, 2024) 01.05.2024 32:22
It's Trump's Trials and Tribulations, New York Trial Dispatch, April 30. Benjamin Wittes sat down with Tyler McBrien and Anna Bower to discuss what happened in the courtroom today. The podcast was edited by Ian Enright of Goat Rodeo. Our theme song is from Alibi Music. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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