Lawfare Live: U.S. and Israel Strike Iran
On Mar. 1 at 9 am ET, join the Lawfare team for a live discussion.
On Mar. 1 at 9 am ET, Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes will sit down with Lawfare Senior Editor Scott R. Anderson and Lawfare Public Service Fellows Ariane Tabatabai and Troy Edwards to discuss the U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran, Iran's response, and what may happen next.
Benjamin Wittes is editor in chief of Lawfare and a Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution. He is the author of several books.
Scott R. Anderson is a fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution and a Senior Fellow in the National Security Law Program at Columbia Law School. He previously served as an Attorney-Adviser in the Office of the Legal Adviser at the U.S. Department of State and as the legal advisor for the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq.
Troy Edwards is a Public Service Fellow at Lawfare and a former federal prosecutor with the U.S. Department of Justice. He served as the Deputy Chief of the National Security Section at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia and previously as an Assistant United States Attorney at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia. He joined the Department through its Honors Program at the National Security Division’s Counterterrorism Section. The opinions presented here are entirely his own and not those of the U.S. government.
Ariane Tabatabai is the Vice President of Research, Security and Defense at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and a contributing editor at Lawfare. Previously, she served in a number of roles in the U.S. Department of State and Department of Defense, including as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Force Education and Training. She is the author of No Conquest, No Defeat and co-author of Triple Axis – Iran’s Relations with Russia and China.
