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The Lawfare Podcast

The Lawfare Institute

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.lawfareblog.com.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/lawfare. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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47:36

Lawfare Archive: Bob Bauer and Liza Goitein on...

The Lawfare Podcast ·

2025/10/04

From September 20, 2024: Bob Bauer, Professor of Practice and Distinguished Scholar in Residence at New York University School of Law, and Liza Goitein, Senior Director of Liberty & National Security at the Brennan Center, join Kevin Frazier, Assistant Professor at St. Thomas University College of Law and a Tarbell Fellow atLawfare, to review the emergency powers afforded to the president under the National Emergency Act, International Emergency Economic Powers Act, and the Insurrection Act. The

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51:44

Lawfare Daily: The Law of the Shutdown

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2025/10/03

In this episode, Molly Reynolds, Senior Fellow at Brookings and contributing editor at Lawfare, sits down with Nick Bednar, Associate Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota and contributing editor at Lawfare, and Sam Berger, Senior Fellow on the Federal Fiscal Policy team at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. They discuss why government shutdowns happen, what determines what functions keep operating, how the Trump administration is using this shutdown to pursue novel cuts to the

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1:06:49

Lawfare Daily: President Trump’s Peace Plan for Gaza

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2025/10/02

In a live conversation on October 1,LawfareSenior Editor Scott R. Anderson spoke to Managing Director at S. Daniel Abraham Center for Middle East Peace Joel Braunold about President Trump’s proposed peace plan for Gaza and what it means for the future of Iraeli-Palestinian relations.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/lawfare. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1:25:08

Rational Security: The “Sweet Dreams Are Made of...

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2025/10/01

This week, Scott sat down with his colleagues Alan Rozenshtein and Anna Bower to talk through the week’s big national security news stories, including:“A Higher Loyalty.” The Justice Department appeared to bow to the demands of President Trump last week when, over the reported objections of several senior officials, it successfully sought the indictment of former FBI Director James Comey for allegedly false statements he made to Congress. But the prosecution is raising a lot of questions among legal

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43:22

Scaling Laws: The Ivory Tower and AI (Live from IHS's...

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2025/10/01

Neil Chilson, Head of AI Policy at the Abundance Institute, and Gus Hurwitz, Senior Fellow and CTIC Academic Director at Penn Carey Law School and Director of Law & Economics Programs at the International Center for Law & Economics, join Kevin Frazier, AI Innovation and Law Fellow at the University of Texas School of Law and a Senior Editor at Lawfare, to explore how academics can overcome the silos and incentives that plague the Ivory Tower and positively contribute to the highly complex,

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52:05

Lawfare Daily: The Justice Department as a Political...

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2025/09/30

In a live conversation on September 29,LawfareSenior Editor Kate Klonick spoke toLawfareEditor in Chief Benjamin Wittes,LawfareSenior Editor Anna Bower, and Professor of Practice at New York University Bob Bauer about the recent indictment of former FBI Director James Comey and what it says about the Trump administration’s ongoing politicization of the Department of Justice. This conversation is a part of our newly-launched show,Lawfare Live:The Day After, on Substack. You can join us for the next

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1:44:53

Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump...

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2025/09/29

In alive conversation onYouTube,LawfareEditor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down withLawfareSenior Editors Scott Anderson, Anna Bower, Eric Columbus, and Roger Parloff to discuss the Supreme Court granting certiorari in Rebecca Slaughter’s challenge to the president’s attempt to remove her as FTC commissioner, the indictment of James Comey, the Supreme Court allowing President Trump to withhold foreign aid funds, a lawsuit challenging warrantless immigration arrests in D.C., and so much more.You can

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55:26

Lawfare Archive: David Pozen on ‘The Constitution of...

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2025/09/28

From May 10, 2024: David Pozen is the Charles Keller Beekman Professor of Law at Columbia Law School and the author of the newbook, “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 autonomy, limits on the federal government’s power, the Equal Protection Clause, or the

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43:28

Lawfare Archive: The Supreme Court Rules in Murthy v....

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2025/09/27

From June 28, 2024: On June 26, the Supreme Court handed down its decision inMurthy v. Missouri—the “jawboning” case, concerning a First Amendment challenge to the government practice of pressuring social media companies to moderate content on their platforms. But instead of providing a clear answer one way or the other, the Court tossed out the case on standing. What now?LawfareEditor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes discussed the case with Kate Klonick of St. Johns University School of Law and Matt

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36:13

Lawfare Daily: Rethinking Deepfake Response with...

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2025/09/26

Gavin Wilde,Nonresident Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, adjunct lecturer at Johns Hopkins University, and author of the recent paper, “Pyrite or Panic? Deepfakes, Knowledge and the Institutional Backstop,”joins Lawfare’s Justin Sherman to discuss worries about deepfakes and their impact on information and society, the history of audiovisual media and what we can learn from previous evolutions in audiovisual technologies, and the role that fakery has played over the

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1:13:04

Rational Security: The “I AM an Object Lesson” Edition

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2025/09/25

This week, Scott sat down with Senior Editors Kate Klonick and Eric Columbus to talk through the week’s big national security news stories, including:“An Un-Airing of Grievances.” Since the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, some supporters of his—including several figures within the Trump administration—have actively sought to have individuals who have said critical or purportedly insensitive things about Kirk removed from their jobs or otherwise punished. This arguably came to a

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59:50

Scaling Laws: AI and Young Minds: Navigating Mental...

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2025/09/25

Alan Rozenshtein,LawfareSenior Editor and Research Director; Renée DiResta,LawfareContributing Editor; and Jess Miers, visiting assistant professor of Law at the University of Akron School of Law, discuss the distinct risks that generative AI systems pose to children, particularly in relation to mental health.They explore the balance between the benefits and harms of AI, emphasizing the importance of media literacy and parental guidance. They also examine recent developments in AI safety measures

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52:37

Lawfare Daily: Analyzing the Administration's New...

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2025/09/24

Loren Voss, Public Service Fellow atLawfare, sits down with Dan Byman, Lawfare Foreign Policy Editor and the Director of the Warfare, Irregular Threats, and Terrorism Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies; Ryan Berg, Director of the Americas Program and Head of the Future of Venezuela Initiative also at CSIS; andLawfareSenior Editor Scott R. Anderson.They talk about the new United States approach to drug smuggling, the lethal strikes against drug smuggling boats, and the

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1:01:35

Lawfare Daily: What’s Behind Russian Incursions Into...

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2025/09/23

In this episode, Lawfare’s Ukraine Fellow Anastasiia Lapatina sits down with Minna Ålander, an associate fellowat Chatham House Europe Program, and Mykhailo Soldatenko, a scholar of international law and a doctoral candidate at Harvard Law School, to discuss Russia’s recent air incursions into Poland and Estonia, and whether NATO’s response to it has been proportional.For more, read a report about Russian hybrid warfare co-authored by Minna Ålander.To receive ad-free podcasts, become

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1:34:22

Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump...

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2025/09/22

In alive conversation onYouTube,LawfareEditor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down withLawfareSenior Editors Anna Bower, Eric Columbus, and Roger Parloff to discuss Kash Patel’s testimony in front of Congress, a preliminary injunction preventing the Trump administration from deporting some Guatemalan children, updates in Fed. Governor Lisa Cook’s challenge to President Trump’s attempt to remove her, and so much more.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/lawfare. Hosted on Acast. See

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42:55

Lawfare Archive: Jane Bambauer, Ramya Krishnan, and...

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2025/09/21

From September 18, 2024: Jane Bambauer, Professor at Levin College of Law; Ramya Krishnan, Senior Staff Attorney at the Knight First Amendment Institute and a lecturer in law at Columbia Law School; Alan Rozenshtein, Associate Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota Law School and a Senior Editor atLawfare, join Kevin Frazier, Assistant Professor at St. Thomas University College of Law and a Tarbell Fellow atLawfare, to break down the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals’ hearing inTikTok v

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1:01:34

Lawfare Archive: The Past, Present, and Future of War...

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2025/09/20

From September 12, 2024: Without new congressional authorization for its post-Oct. 7 operations in the Middle East, the Biden administration has sought to legally justify its military activities in the region based on the president’s constitutional authority and the application of existing statutory authorities to operations against new adversaries. These executive branch arguments are the outgrowth of similar arguments presidential administrations have made over the last few decades, largely

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1:00:07

Scaling Laws: AI Copyright Lawsuits with Pam Samuelson

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2025/09/19

On today'sScaling Lawsepisode,LawfareSenior Editor and Research Director Alan Rozenshtein sits down with Pam Samuelson, the Richard M. Sherman Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, to discuss the rapidly evolving legal landscape at the intersection of generative AI and copyright law. They dive into the recent district court rulings in lawsuits brought by authors against AI companies, includingBartz v. AnthropicandKadrey v. Meta. They explore how

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44:22

Lawfare Daily: A Trip Through Pennsylvania’s Nascent...

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2025/09/18

On today’s episode,LawfareManaging Editor Tyler McBrien sits down with with Maia Woluchem, the Director of Data & Society’s Trustworthy Infrastructures program, along with one of the program’s researchers, Livia Garofalo, and Joan Mukogosi, an affiliate with the program and aPhD candidate at the London School of Economics. They discuss their recent research trips across Pennsylvania, where they learned about the state’s industrial histories and futures, as well as the immediate and potential

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1:46:52

Rational Security: The “Ten Years, Still Off-Key”...

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2025/09/17

For this week's very special episode on Rational Security's 10th anniversary, Scott sat down with a slew of co-hosts emeritus, each of whom brought their own topic to discuss.Shane Harris flagged the connections between online radicalization and the young men behind many recent public acts of gun violence, including the alleged perpetrator of the Charlie Kirk killing;Benjamin Wittes insisted we are STILL not talking enough about Russian drone incursions and other forms of gray zone warfare in

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