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Negotiations, the law of Armed Conflict and counterterrorism. Shes also the codirector of the hls brookings project on law and security and a member of the program on negotiations executive board. Benjamin wittes is a senior fellow in governance studies at the Brookings Institute and the editorinchief of law fair. And joining our that ares we have the jack n. And lillian r. Berkman professor of entrepreneurial legal studies and director of the Berkman Center for internet and society, and also professor jook Goldsmith Jack goldsmith, professor of law. I will hand it over to benjamin. Thanks so much. Thanks for having me, and thank you all for turning out. This is quite overwhelming. I want to gabby and i started out thinking we were writing a book about the governance of catastrophic risk, and rather to my surprise anyway though im not certain to gabbys we ended up writing a book that was as much a book of political theory as anything else which is odd for me because i actually had neve
The more we worked with this, the more we ended up with a puzzle, that i have to say having cowritten this book, im so not remotely sure i know the answer to, which is you know how do you govern the world in which so many of our working assumptions about why we have governance, how it works and what the role of the state in it is . Another going to sit here and say these arent true anymore. I think a lot of people have spent a lot of time saying the state is over. Theyve all been wrong. A lot of people spent a lot of time questioning whether the world is going to end and im not going to do that. I am going to see a lot of our assumptions about the way we govern our a little bit less true than they used to be. And the question of how what you replace them with becomes a real head scratcher. Song going to talk about one of those things and then turn it over to gabby who does the deep thinking relationship to talk about some of the others. The one i want to talk about is the relationship
The former Rugby League Star receives his first covid vaccination. He is living with Motor Neurone Disease and is in the group of clinically extremely Vulnerable People. The amount of people who love harvey. And reality tv star katie price on the challenges her disabled son harvey faces as he turns 18. Good morning. It is a cold and frosty start to the day to day. Also the risk of ice on untreated surfaces. But for many of us, a decent amount of sunshine, but still some wintry showers across parts of the north and west. All the details later. Good morning. Its monday the 25th of january. Our top story. Mps are demanding clarity from the government on when schools in england willfully re open to all pupils, after ministers failed to commit to a date before easter. The chairman of the Education Select Committee, Robert Halfon, has asked for a plan to be laid out in the commons. It comes as the uk is expected to reach 100,000 coronavirus deaths this week, one of the worst tolls in the wor
Son Michael Flynn jr. , who like his father is under scrutiny by the Security Council robert mueller. Flynns concern, as you mentioned, anderson, could be a factor into decision on how to respond to muellers ongoing investigation, which is both into russian meddling in the 2016 campaign as well as the business dealings of key Trump Campaign advisers. Im told as well that flynns wife laurie shares his concerns about their sons possible legal exposure. What are you learning about the legal issues that both he and his son could be facing . So this is revealing. Ive spoken with two witnesses interviewed by special counsel investigators and they tell me the questions regarding flynn focus on his and his sons business dealings, including specifically their firms reporting of income from work overseas. Something known as the foreign agents registration act. It requires those acting as agents for foreign entities, either countries or companies, to publicly disclose their relationships with tho