LEXLawRadio co-hosts Will Helixon and Jon Stanfield discuss the legal underpinnings for a dual status commander when a state makes a request for military assistance to the federal government.  In the segment “Left, Right, Left,” they also discuss the attempt by the U.S. Senate to change the entitlements to dual military couples and increase the costs of healthcare to military retirees.  Part 1 of Will Helixon’s interview of Professor Geoffrey Corn discusses the recent impact of Hurricane Harvey on the Houston area, and the mechanism for the state to request military assistance from the federal government.

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This Week's Guests:  Professor Geoffrey Corn, South Texas College of Law Houston.

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Guest Bio:  Geoffrey S. Corn is The Presidential Research Professor of Law at South Texas College of Law Houston in Houston Texas. Prior to joining the South Texas College of Law Houston faculty in 2005, Professor Corn served in the U.S. Army for 21 years as an officer, and a final year as s civilian legal advisor, retiring in the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. Professor Corn’s teaching and scholarship focuses on the law of armed conflict, national security law, criminal law and procedure, and prosecutorial ethics. He has appeared an expert witness at the Military Commission in Guantanamo, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, and in federal court. He is the lead author of The Law of Armed Conflict: An Operational Perspective, and The Laws of War and the War on Terror, and National Security Law and Policy: a Student Treatise. 

Next Week’s Guest:  Professor Geoffrey Corn, South Texas College of Law Houston. 

Next Week's Main Topic:  Hurricane Harvey:  The Legal Authority for the U.S. Military to Provide Support to Civil Authorities for Disaster Relief, Part 2. 

Next Week's Segments:  Sound Off:  Will Helixon discusses the practice of some military prosecutor’s not interviewing complaining witnesses in sexual assault cases before arraignment.