Episode 33: How About a Presidential Pardon…For This Episode

The National Security Law Podcast

Bobby Chesney and Steve Vladeck

Courses, Politics, News, Education, Government

4.8 • 646 Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2017

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

In this week's episode, Professors Chesney and Vladeck take advantage of a relatively quiet week for national security law developments in order to range across a number of topics. Being in Texas, we are all quite focused on the terrible tragedy unfolding thanks to Hurricane Harvey, and so your hosts open with a survey of various legal issues that could have arisen in the context of this emergency (though, fortunately, none seem to have). Then, noting that today was the first day of class at Texas Law, they discuss whether their respective Constitutional Law courses will or should be different this year in light of controversies associated with President Trump. They also take note of the latest North Korean missile launch and use that as a basis for discussion the line between self-defense and offense--in relation to Japanese law. And they also comment on the surprise settlement in the case brought against the private sector psychologists who designed the CIA's Enhanced Interrogation Technique program. Finally, and inevitably, they review the season finale of Game of Thrones (including a digression into such important questions as: do the wights possess human rights?).

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello from Austin and welcome to episode 33 of the National Security Law Podcast, brought to you by the Strauss Center at the University of Texas.
0:20.2	I'm Bobby Chesney.
0:21.3	And I'm Steve Vladek, and it's the first day of school.
0:23.7	It is the first day.
0:24.9	Steve and I are fresh out of the classroom.
0:28.6	We both taught constitutional law just this morning.
0:31.7	Con law.
0:32.3	Not at the same time, unlike last spring, we are not co-teaching this time.
0:35.6	Well, no, at the same time, it's not in the same room. Right, you're right.
0:37.9	But you brought donuts.
0:39.8	I brought donuts.
0:40.5	You didn't?
0:41.4	So, you know, I reserve my bribery for later in the semester when I feel like they're going to be clear to them what I'm hoping to get out of it and when I haven't created expectations and I'm always going to bring them food.
0:54.2	I may have sent a fuzzy signal.
0:56.7	I just,
0:57.4	I will upgrade to breakfast tacos when the need is greater.
1:01.2	So you and I are teaching actually two of the three small groups within the same section.
1:05.4	So our students are going to compare notes and be like, hmm.
1:09.1	My students will say, like, I don't feel good.
1:11.2	I ate this terrible donut.
1:12.4	And I didn't learn anything.
1:13.7	And your students will say, like, I didn't learn anything, but I feel good.
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