Global Affairs Expert Webinar: Laws of Warfare

Saira Mohamed, the Agnes Roddy Robb Chair in jurisprudence, ethics, and social responsibility and professor of law at the University of California, Berkeley, and Matthew C. Waxman, adjunct senior fellow for law and foreign policy at CFR and the Liviu Librescu professor of law at Columbia Law School, colead a conversation on the laws of warfare.

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Speakers
Saira Mohamed
Agnes Roddy Robb Chair in Jurisprudence, Ethics, and Social Responsibility and Professor of Law
University of California, Berkeley

Matthew C. Waxman
Adjunct Senior Fellow for Law and Foreign Policy; Liviu Librescu Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
Council on Foreign Relations

Presider
Irina A. Faskianos
Vice President, National Program and Outreach
Council on Foreign Relations

Background Resources

1. Stephen Pomper, “One Man’s War: How Constraints on the U.S. President’s War-Making Authority Eroded—and How to Restore Them,” ForeignAffairs.com, March 3, 2026.
2. Richard Fontaine, “Trump’s Way of War: Iran, Venezuela, and the End of the Powell Doctrine,” ForeignAffairs.com, March 2, 2026.
3. Saira Mohamed, “U.S. Flouted ‘Central Rule of International Law’ With Venezuela Raid to Arrest Maduro,” Interview with Gwyneth K. Shaw, University of California, Berkeley School of Law, January 20, 2026.
4. Matthew C. Waxman, “Armed Conflict? Trump’s Venezuela Boat Strikes Test U.S. Law,” Expert Take, Council on Foreign Relations, October 15, 2025.
5. Jacquelyn Schneider and Julia Macdonald, “How to Lose the Drone War: American Military Doctrine Is Stifling Innovation,” ForeignAffairs.com, July 31, 2025.