Lawfare Archive: Law and the Soleimani Strike

Feb 3, 2024 · 1h 4m

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On this episode

Benjamin WittesHost
ADAshley DeeksGuest
BCBobby ChesneyGuest
JGJack GoldsmithGuest
SMSamuel MoynGuest
SAScott R. AndersonGuest

About this episode

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 Scott R. Anderson , Bobby Chesney , Jack Goldsmith , Ashley Deeks and Samuel Moyn join Benjamin Wittes to discuss the domestic and international law surrounding the strike, how the…