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A Road Less Traveled: National Security Careers After Law School

A series of candid conversations with national security law and policy practitioners about their paths after law school, co-sponsored with the student-led National Security Law Society.

How Perpetual War Has Changed Us: Reflections on the Anniversary of 9/11

A series of essays on the legal and policy choices made in the two decades following the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Co-organized by the Reiss Center on Law and Security and Just Security.

2021 Updates: War Powers Resolution Reporting Project

Now current through September 2021: a living resource on the war powers reporting practice of every President since the WPR was enacted in 1973.

In the News

Faculty Co-Director Ryan Goodman, Senior Fellow Tess Bridgeman, and co-authors Luke Hartig and Brianna Rosen drew up a list of questions for Congress, reporters, and investigators to pose about the March 2019 airstrike in Baghuz, Syria that killed 80 people, including civilians.

On the Wall Street Journal podcast “Bad Bets,” Distinguished Senior Fellow Andrew Weissmann revisits his work on the DOJ’s Enron Task Force, discussing the investigation and prosecution of the firms Arthur Andersen and Merill Lynch.

Distinguished Senior Fellow Bob Bauer and co-author Jack Goldsmith analyzed potential reforms to the congressional subpoena in the Protecting Our Democracy Act in Lawfare.