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The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon Edition
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.
Episodes
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: NATO’s Eastern Flank: The View from Lithuania
Katsiaryna Shmatsina, Eurasia Fellow at Lawfare, sits down with Gabrielius Landsbergis, former Lithuanian Foreign Minister (2020–2024), now a visiting fellow…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: State Cyber Corps and Volunteer Programs
Sarah Powazek, Director of the Public Interest Cybersecurity Program at UC Berkeley’s Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity, and Michael Razeeq, Nonresident…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionOctober Minipod: Are Domestic Deployments Interfering with State Sovereignty?
On this month’s minipod, Lawfare Associate Editor for Communications Anna Hickey talked to Lawfare Public Service Fellow Loren Voss about the state of play of…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, Oct. 24
In a live conversation on YouTube, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Contributor James Pearce and Senior Editors Scott R. Anderson…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Archive: CYBERCOM Legal Conference: The Role of the Private Sector in Conflict
From April 24, 2024: The annual U.S. Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM) Legal Conference convenes lawyers across government and the private sector working on cyber…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Archive: Gabe Rottman on the Justice Department's New Guidelines on Press Subpoenas
From June 5, 2023: It's been about six months since the attorney general issued new guidelines on compulsory process to members of the press in criminal and…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionScaling Laws: Sen. Scott Wiener on California Senate Bill 53
California State Senator Scott Wiener, author of Senate Bill 53—a frontier AI safety bill—signed into law by Governor Newsom earlier this month, joins Alan…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: External Powers Competition in Africa: Aid, Security, Tech—and African Agency
Katsiaryna Shmatsina, Eurasia Fellow at Lawfare, is joined by Beverly Ochieng, senior security analyst at Control Risks and non-resident expert at the Center…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionRational Security: The “Pickled Fish in Cozy Sweaters” Edition
This week, Scott sat down with his Lawfare colleagues Senior Fellow Eric Columbus, Ukraine Fellow Anastasiia Lapatina, and Public Service Fellow Loren Voss to…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Political Change in Madagascar and Kenya
For today's episode, Lawfare Foreign Policy Editor Daniel Byman sits down with Holly Berkley Fletcher, a former senior CIA Africa analyst, to discuss the…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Live, The Now: Anna Bower
In a Lawfare Live, The Now on October 20, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Senior Editor Anna Bower to discuss her article about…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Tomahawks, Trump, and Armed Neutrality for Ukraine
In this episode, Lawfare’s Ukraine Fellow Anastasiia Lapatina sits down with Eric Ciaramella, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, Oct. 17
In a live conversation on YouTube, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Public Service Fellows Loren Voss and Michael Feinberg and…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Archive: The Potential for an Afghan Adjustment Act
Yesterday marked the two-year anniversary of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. Around 80,000 Afghans were relocated during the withdrawal, and many do not…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Archive: How Internet Infrastructure Affects Digital Repression in Venezuela
Lawfare Fellow in Technology Policy and Law Eugenia Lostri sits down with Esteban Carisimo, a Postdoctoral Researcher at Northwestern University to talk about…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionScaling Laws: AI and Energy: What Do We Know? What Are We Learning?
Mosharaf Chowdhury, Associate Professor at the University of Michigan and Director of the ML Energy lab, and Dan Zhou, former Senior Research Scientist at the…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Prosecuting Terrorism and the Pursuit of Justice, with Jake Tapper
Lawfare Public Service Fellow Michael Feinberg sits down with Jake Tapper, the lead Washington anchor for CNN, to discuss his new book, “Race Against Terror…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionRational Security: The “Don’t Upset the Masks” Edition
This week, Scott sat down with his Lawfare colleagues Benjamin Wittes, Kate Klonick, and newly-minted Senior Editor Molly Roberts to talk through the week’s…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Serhii Plokhii on the History of the Nuclear Arms Race
Lawfare Contributor Mykhailo Soldatenko sits down with Serhii Plokhii, Harvard History Professor and a leading authority on the history of the Cold War and…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: How Technologists Can Help Regulators with Erie Meyer and Laura Edelson
Erie Meyer, Senior Fellow at Georgetown Law’s Institute for Technology Law & Policy and Senior Fellow at the Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator, and Laura Edelson…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, Oct. 10
In a live conversation on YouTube, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Public Service Fellow Loren Voss and Senior Editors Anna…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Archive: Justin Sherman on the FTC Settlement with Location Data Broker X-Mode
From January 19, 2024: Last week, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) reached a settlement with location data broker X-Mode Social. X-Mode collects over 10…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Archive: Noah Efron on the Awful Quiet of This Moment
From October 10, 2023: This morning, Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes connected with his old friend Noah Efron about the weekend's events in Israel…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionScaling Laws: AI Safety Meet Trust & Safety with Ravi Iyer and David Sullivan
David Sullivan, Executive Director of the Digital Trust & Safety Partnership, and Rayi Iyer, Managing Director of the Psychology of Technology Institute at…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: The State of the Spyware Industry with Jen Roberts and Sarah Graham
Jen Roberts, Associate Director of the Atlantic Council’s Cyber Statecraft Initiative, and Sarah Graham, Research Consultant with the Atlantic Council’s Cyber…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionRational Security: The “F*cked by Five” Edition
This week, Scott sat down with his Lawfare colleagues Managing Editor Tyler McBrien, Foreign Policy Editor Daniel Byman, and Public Service Fellow Loren Voss…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: How Are the Courts Doing?
On today's podcast, Executive Editor Natalie Orpett is joined by Judge Philip Pro and Judge Jeremy Fogel. Both are retired federal court judges who are members…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: ‘38 Londres Street,’ Impunity, and Immunity with Philippe Sands
On today’s episode, Lawfare Managing Editor Tyler McBrien sits down with Philippe Sands, a professor of law at the University of London and the Samuel Pisar…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, Oct. 3
In a live conversation on YouTube, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Senior Editors Scott Anderson, Anna Bower, Eric Columbus, and…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Archive: Cox and Wyden on Section 230 and Generative AI
From May 2, 2023: Generative AI products have been tearing up the headlines recently. Among the many issues these products raise is whether or not their…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Archive: Bob Bauer and Liza Goitein on Emergency Powers Reform
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…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: The Law of the Shutdown
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…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: President Trump’s Peace Plan for Gaza
In a live conversation on October 1, Lawfare Senior Editor Scott R. Anderson spoke to Managing Director at S. Daniel Abraham Center for Middle East Peace Joel…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionRational Security: The “Sweet Dreams Are Made of Cheese” Edition
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…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionScaling Laws: The Ivory Tower and AI (Live from IHS's Technology, Liberalism, and Abundance Conference)
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…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: The Justice Department as a Political Weapon
In a live conversation on September 29, Lawfare Senior Editor Kate Klonick spoke to Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes, Lawfare Senior Editor Anna Bower…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionSeptember Minipod: What Can Be Done to Prevent Politicized Policing?
On this month’s minipod, Lawfare Associate Editor for Communications Anna Hickey talked to Lawfare Contributor Christy Lopez about the guardrails that exist to…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, Sept. 26
In a live conversation on YouTube, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Senior Editors Scott Anderson, Anna Bower, Eric Columbus, and…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Archive: David Pozen on ‘The Constitution of the War on Drugs’
From May 10, 2024: 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…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Archive: The Supreme Court Rules in Murthy v. Missouri
From June 28, 2024: On June 26, the Supreme Court handed down its decision in Murthy v. Missouri—the “jawboning” case, concerning a First Amendment challenge…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Rethinking Deepfake Response with Gavin Wilde
Gavin Wilde, Nonresident Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, adjunct lecturer at Johns Hopkins University, and author of the recent…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionRational Security: The “I AM an Object Lesson” Edition
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…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionScaling Laws: AI and Young Minds: Navigating Mental Health Risks with Renée DiResta and Jess Miers
Alan Rozenshtein, Lawfare Senior Editor and Research Director; Renée DiResta, Lawfare Contributing Editor; and Jess Miers, visiting assistant professor of Law…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Analyzing the Administration's New Counterdrug Approach
Loren Voss, Public Service Fellow at Lawfare, sits down with Dan Byman, Lawfare Foreign Policy Editor and the Director of the Warfare, Irregular Threats, and…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: What’s Behind Russian Incursions Into NATO
In this episode, Lawfare’s Ukraine Fellow Anastasiia Lapatina sits down with Minna Ålander, an associate fellow at Chatham House Europe Program, and Mykhailo…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, Sept. 18
In a live conversation on YouTube, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Senior Editors Anna Bower, Eric Columbus, and Roger Parloff to…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Archive: Jane Bambauer, Ramya Krishnan, and Alan Rozenshtein on the Constitutionality of the TikTok Bill
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…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Archive: The Past, Present, and Future of War Powers with Brian Finucane and Matt Waxman
From September 12, 2024: Without new congressional authorization for its post-Oct. 7 operations in the Middle East, the Biden administration has sought to…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionScaling Laws: AI Copyright Lawsuits with Pam Samuelson
On today's Scaling Laws episode, Lawfare Senior Editor and Research Director Alan Rozenshtein sits down with Pam Samuelson, the Richard M. Sherman…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: A Trip Through Pennsylvania’s Nascent AI Data Center Industry
On today’s episode, Lawfare Managing Editor Tyler McBrien sits down with with Maia Woluchem, the Director of Data & Society’s Trustworthy Infrastructures…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionRational Security: The “Ten Years, Still Off-Key” Edition
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…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: What Israel's Gaza City Offensive and Airstrikes in Qatar Mean for the Region
For today's episode, Senior Editor Scott R. Anderson sits down with Dan Byman, Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies; Joel…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: The Litigation Challenging Pres. Trump's Alien Enemies Act, with Lee Gelernt
Lee Gelernt, Deputy Director of the ACLU's Immigrants' Rights Project, speaks to Senior Editor Roger Parloff about the cases he has led challenging the…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, Sept. 12
In a live conversation on YouTube, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Senior Editors Scott Anderson, Anna Bower, Eric Columbus, and…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Archive: What the ‘Kids’ Think of NATO with Rachel Rizzo
From June 3, 2024: Rachel Rizzo, a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Europe Center, joins Lawfare Managing Editor Tyler McBrien to talk about…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Archive: Brian Winter on the Imminent Election Crisis in Brazil
From September 27, 2022: In just under a week, on October 2, Brazil will hold the first round of its general election, which will determine the country's next…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionScaling Laws: The State of AI Safety with Steven Adler
Steven Adler, former OpenAI safety researcher, author of Clear-Eyed AI on Substack, and independent AGI-readiness researcher, joins Kevin Frazier, AI…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionRational Security: The “Trump Ruined My Dinner” Edition
This week, Scott sat down with his Lawfare colleagues Benjamin Wittes and Natalie Orpett, and Professor of Law at Cardozo Law School Rebecca Ingber, to talk…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: The 9/11 Case in Guantanamo
Twenty-four years ago today, two planes crashed into the World Trade Center in New York, another hit the Pentagon, and another went down in a field in…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionLawfare Daily: Adam Chan on the FCC’s Growing Role in National Security
For today’s episode, Lawfare Senior Editor Scott R. Anderson and Contributing Editor Brandon Van Grack sit down with Adam Chan, the first National Security…