The Rhetorical Presidency Meets the Drone Presidency

Authors

David Pozen, Columbia Law SchoolFollow

Document Type

Working Paper

Publication Date

2015

Abstract

This brief essay reflects on Kenneth Anderson and Benjamin Wittes's book "Speaking the Law: The Obama Administration's Addresses on National Security Law." It suggests that "Speaking the Law" overestimates the clarifying and constraining force of the executive branch's counterterrorism speeches, and that the legal policies they set out may be better understood not as a reticulated regulatory scheme, but rather on a common law model.

Disciplines

Law

Comments

This book review is also published in The New Rambler Review, 2015.

Recommended Citation

David Pozen, The Rhetorical Presidency Meets the Drone Presidency, Columbia Public Law Research Paper No. 14-484 (2015).
Available at: https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/faculty_scholarship/1930