From Lincoln’s suspension of habeas corpus to FDR’s roundup of Japanese-Americans to Bush II’s secret prisons to Obama’s drone war, our presidents have always claimed military necessity as justification for war measures that others considered unethical or illegal. Can we develop sensible ethical or legal rules to govern the discretion of the commander in chief, or are we stuck having to trust whoever sits in the Oval Office? Speakers: Leigh Hafrey, Stephen L. Carter