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Seth Barrett Tillman[*] [This essay is available in PDF at this link] In their Lawfare post,[1] Professor Jack Goldsmith and Ben Miller-Gootnick put forward the traditional argument that legislative-officer succession, as permitted by the Presidential Succession Act of 1947 (1947 Act),[2] leads to undesirable and destabilizing changes in party control. Quoting a report of the […]

A Government Lawyer[*] [This essay is available in PDF at this link] Introduction About two weeks before the U.S. House of Representatives impeached President Trump, Professor Josh Blackman and Seth Barrett Tillman published an article on Lawfare. In it, they argue that Trump’s withholding from Ukraine of military aid and a White House meeting, meant […]

Louis René Beres[*] [This essay is available in PDF at this link] Introduction In early May 2019, U.S. President Donald Trump—responding to Kim Jung-un’s latest round of missile tests—sought to reassure the American public. His seat-of-the-pants comments, however, were based entirely upon the presumed importance of his personal relationship with Kim Jung-un and had nothing […]

Sean K. Price[*] [This article is available in PDF at this link] Introduction The United States is under attack. In the months leading up to hostilities, the enemy’s intelligence agencies have identified key U.S. and allied military officials who use cloud-connected artificial pacemakers[1] or implantable cardiac defibrillators (ICD).[2] Immediately preceding offensive operations in the physical […]

Shane R. Reeves[*] & Ronald T. P. Alcala[†] [This essay is available in PDF at this link] On December 19, 2018, President Trump ordered the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Syria.[3] While U.S. troops have not completely left Syria,[4] the slow drawdown provides an opportunity to reflect on some of the legal challenges that arose […]

[*] Chief Judge Robert N. Davis[†] I’m going to ask you to join me in a walk through the past, present, and a step into the future of the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims, and when we get to the future I’m going to challenge you to make a system that is […]

In our latest Student Article, Dominic Rota, Belmont University College of Law ’18, discusses the implications of the advent of quantum computing on the international legal regulation of cyberwarfare.