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Lawfare Archive: Law and the Soleimani Strike

From January 6, 2020: On Friday, the Lawfare Podcast hosted a conversation on the wide-ranging policy implications of the U.S. strike that killed Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ leader Qassem Soleimani and Abu Mahdi al-Mohandes, deputy commander of Iraq’s quasi-official Popular Mobilization Forces and leader of the Iraqi militia and PMF Keta’ib Hezbollah.Today’s special edition episode leaves the policy debate behind to zero-in on the law behind the strike. Law of war and international law experts <a href="https://www.brookings.edu/experts/scott-r-anderson/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Scott R. Anderson</a>, <a href="https://law.utexas.edu/faculty/robert-m-chesney" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Bobby Chesney</a>, <a href="http://jackgoldsmith.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jack Goldsmith</a>, <a href="https://www.law.virginia.edu/faculty/profile/ad5jt/2378410" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Ashley Deeks</a> and <a href="http://campuspress.yale.edu/samuelmoyn/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Samuel Moyn</a> join Benjamin Wittes to discuss the domestic and international law surrounding the strike, how the administration might legally justify it, what the president might do next and how Congress might respond.Support this show <a href="http://supporter.acast.com/lawfare" rel="payment" target="_blank">http://supporter.acast.com/lawfare</a>. Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color:grey;" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

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