Encore Performance: Bone-Crushing Zombie Action
The Lawfare Podcast
The Lawfare Institute
4.7 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 29 August 2015
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
It's a special encore performance of our panel discussion from last year on the legal architecture of the zombie apocalypse: Foreign Policy's Shane Harris hosts a panel--incuding Bobby Chesney, Benjamin Wittes, and Jennifer Daskal--on the law of the War on Zombies. What will be the legal architecture when the dead walk and come for your brains? Do we need a zombie AUMF? Do zombies have due process rights? Find out on this week's special episode.
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| 0:25.6 | no bull, and the aftermath. |
| 0:29.9 | Hey podcast listeners, Benjamin with us here, and we're doing something this week we |
| 0:34.5 | almost never do on the LawFair podcast. |
| 0:38.1 | We're taking the week off and bringing you an encore performance of an episode you |
| 0:43.1 | might have missed. |
| 0:44.8 | Or you might enjoy hearing again. |
| 0:47.8 | It's on a really important issue facing the national security community, one you might |
| 0:53.1 | not have given your full attention to. |
| 0:55.8 | I want to stress that since we first aired this episode about a year ago, Congress has |
| 1:01.7 | done nothing. |
| 1:03.1 | The courts have been idle. |
| 1:05.1 | The international community has sat on its hands. |
| 1:08.8 | Nothing has really changed. |
| 1:10.8 | The episode is pretty much still up to date. |
| 1:14.8 | Enjoy it. |
| 1:15.8 | I think the first step is to work with the local government and see what is feasible. |
| 1:23.0 | The second step is to look at the range of tools short of uses of force that might be |
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