The Lawfare Podcast

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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.lawfareblog.com.

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Lawfare Daily: Chris Hughes on His New Book, ‘Marketcrafters’

Chris Hughes, author of “ Marketcrafters ” and co-founder of the Economic Securities Project, joins Kevin Frazier, AI Innovation and Law Fellow at Texas Law and Contributing Editor at Lawfare , to discuss his book and its implications at a time of immense economic uncertainty and political upheaval. The duo explore several important historical case studies that Chris suggests may have lessons worth heeding in the ongoing struggle to direct markets toward the public good. To receive ad-free podca...

Apr 22, 2025•42 min

Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, April 18

On April 18 at 4 pm ET, Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes sits down with Lawfare Senior Editors Anna Bower, Quinta Jurecic, and Roger Parloff and Lawfare Legal Fellow James Pearce to discuss the status of the civil litigation against President Trump’s executive actions, including Judge Boasberg's finding of probable cause for contempt in the Alien Enemies Act case. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/lawfare . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....

Apr 21, 2025•2 hr 34 min

Lawfare Archive: 'The President Who Would Not Be King'

From January 26, 2021: Jack Goldsmith sat down with Michael McConnell, the Richard and Frances Mallery Professor and director of the Constitutional Law Center at Stanford Law School, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the author of the new book, " The President Who Would Not Be King: Executive Power Under the Constitution ." They discussed McConnell's textual historical approach to interpreting presidential power under Article II of the U.S. Constitution, the many novel elements of ex...

Apr 20, 2025•55 min

Lawfare Archive: The Israeli Judicial System on the Brink

From March 6, 2023: Amichai Cohen and Yuval Shany are both Israeli legal scholars and longtime  Lawfare  contributors. Shany is a professor of international law at the Hebrew University Law School in Jerusalem. Cohen is a professor at Ono Academic College. They are both scholars at the Israel Democracy Institute, and together they are also co-authors of a six-part series in  Lawfare  about the ongoing effort by the Israeli government to alter the Israeli judicial sy...

Apr 19, 2025•53 min