This week we're covering the range of national security related topics that have been making headlines. Host Elisa is joined by Bill Banks to discuss the latest impacts of climate change, Ukraine's comeback, China's elections, and looking back on 21 years since the attacks on 9/11. And stick around towards the end of the episode for NSLT's latest book recommendations!
Bill Banks is Chair of the ABA Standing Committee on Law and National Security, and Emeritus Professor at the Syracuse University College of Law
References:
Register for the 32nd Annual Review of the Field of National Security Law Conference – The Past, Present and Future: Celebrating 60 Years of the Standing Committee on Law and National Security – November 17th–18th, 2022
The National Intelligence Estimate on Climate Change
The Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF)
Fisher, Max. The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World. Little, Brown, 2023
Singer, P. W., and Emerson T. Brooking. Likewar: The Weaponization of Social Media. Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019.
Canllos, Peter S. The Great Dissenter: The Story of John Marshall Harlan, America's Judicial Hero. Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, an Imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2022.
Feingold, Russ, and Peter Prindiville. The Constitution in Jeopardy: An Unprecedented Effort to Rewrite Our Fundamental Law and What We Can Do About It. PublicAffairs, 2022.