Former President Donald Trump has been indicted by a grand jury in Miami. Since the country learned last August of an FBI search of the former president’s residence at Mar-a-Lago for documents marked as classified, details have steadily emerged about the volume of documents there, who had access to them, and alleged efforts to…

On Monday, April 3, 2023, the Reiss Center on Law and Security and the National Security Law Society welcomed our fifth and final speaker of the 2022-2023 season of A Road Less Traveled: Jeohn Favors, Senior Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General for National Security, National Security Division, Department of Justice. Former: Official, Central Intelligence Agency,…

On Monday, March 6, 2023, the Reiss Center on Law and Security and the National Security Law Society welcomed our fourth speaker of the 2022-2023 season of A Road Less Traveled: Katrina Mulligan, Chief of Staff to the Secretary of the Army, U.S. Department of the Army. Former: Principal DASD for Special Operations and Low…

  In the summer of 2022, the U.S. Department of State announced the creation of a new Special Representative for Racial Equity and Justice, the first mandate of its kind in the U.S. diplomatic corps. On February 21, Desirée Cormier Smith joined us to share reflections from her experience as the inaugural Special Representative and…

On Thursday, February 16, 2023, the Reiss Center on Law and Security and the National Security Law Society welcomed our third speaker of the 2022-2023 season of A Road Less Traveled: Albert Sanders, Director of Government Affairs & Public Policy, Google Cloud. Former: Associate Counsel to President Barack Obama, Office of White House Counsel; Counselor…

On Thursday, November 17, 2022, the Reiss Center on Law and Security and the National Security Law Society welcome our second speaker of the 2022-2023 season of a A Road Less Traveled: Arsalan Suleman, Counsel, International Litigation & Arbitration Practice, Foley Hoag LLP; Former: Acting Special Envoy to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, U.S. Department…

On Monday, October 17, 2022, the Reiss Center on Law and Security and the National Security Law Society welcomes our first speaker of the 2022-2023 season of a A Road Less Traveled: Rita Siemion, Senior Counsel, US Senate Judiciary Committee; Adjunct Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center. Event Details October 17, 2022 12:00  –…

  The U.S. Department of Justice’s unprecedented investigation continues into the documents found at former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, raising many intertwined domestic law and national security concerns. What is the likely trajectory of the criminal investigation? How might the Mar-a-Lago proceedings be sequenced with the separate and ongoing investigations and prosecutions around the…