Reiss Center on Law and Security

Meet the 2019-2020 RCLS Student Scholars

Congratulations to NYU Law students Julia Brooks, William Dawley, and Peter Machtiger, who have been selected as the new cohort of RCLS Student Scholars for the upcoming academic year.

Ryan Goodman speaks to congressional interns on the Russia investigation

At the Young Leaders Network, co-founded by the NYU Brademas Center, RCLS faculty director Ryan Goodman discussed the Russia investigation with U.S. congressional interns.

Watch Jason Rezaian discuss his book, Prisoner: My 544 Days in an Iranian Prison

Jason Rezaian, former WaPo Tehran Bureau Chief, joined RCLS Fellow Lisa Monaco to discuss his imprisonment in Iran and the efforts to secure his release.

A Road Less Traveled: A Series on National Security Careers After Law School

Check out this year's discussions in our national security career series, co-hosted with NSLS. Speakers included: former gov’t officials (NSC, State Dept., Capitol Hill), advocates, and practitioners.

In the News

RCLS fellow Michael Hanna argues that the U.S. should withdraw its troops from Syria, recalibrating its strategy to reflect the diminishing returns of continued military engagement, in co-authored Century Foundation report

RCLS faculty director Stephen Holmes writes in Project Syndicate that Vladimir Putin’s recent proclamation of the end of western liberalism reveals deep anxieties about his own grip on power in a potentially post-liberal world

RCLS fellow Tess Bridgeman and faculty director Ryan Goodman write in Just Security about the State Department’s recently explained view that the 2001 and 2002 AUMFs do not authorize military action against Iran—and what further congressional oversight should seek to clarify