• Today’s Threat Landscape and Strategies for the Future: A Conversation with Former Director of the National Counterterrorism Center Nick Rasmussen

    Lipton Hall 108 West 3rd Street, New York, New York

    Thursday, Thursday 15, 2017  |  6:30 p.m. Lipton Hall 108 West Third Street  Please find the event video below:   On February 15, join us for the kick-off event of the new CLS series, Building Resilience for Today’s Security Threats. The evening will feature Nick Rasmussen—who retired in December after three years serving as Director of

  • From 9/11 to a New Normal? Building Resilience to Terrorism and Extremism in American Cities

    Greenberg Lounge 40 Washington Square South, New York, NY, United States

    Thursday, April 12, 2018 | 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM NYU School of Law Greenberg Lounge | Vanderbilt Hall 40 Washington Square South To RSVP, please click here.   Since 9/11, the threat of a major, externally-organized attack on the American homeland has greatly diminished. But law enforcement has a new national security threat to contend with:

  • Former Director of National Counterterrorism Center Nick Rasmussen Meets with NYU Law Students

    CLS Non-Resident Senior Fellow Nicholas Rasmussen met with student members of the law school’s National Security Law Society (NSLS) on October 2nd to discuss counterterrorism policy and reflect on his 27-year career in government across multiple Administrations. Rasmussen, who is currently Senior Director of Counterterrorism and National Security at the McCain Institute, most recently served

  • National Security and Shifting Geopolitics: Challenges at Home and Abroad

    Monday, October 22, 2018 8:30 AM - 4:00 PM  NYU School of Law Greenberg Lounge | Vanderbilt Hall 40 Washington Square South   Thank you for joining us at our fall national security conference. The conference, National Security and Shifting Geopolitics: Challenges at Home and Abroad, featured leading policymakers, scholars and journalists to address key

    Free
  • National Security Law Society’s Career and Internship Panel

    The National Security Law Society sponsored a Career and Internship Panel on Friday, November 16 at 5:00pm in Furman Hall 326. NSLS hosted Zach Goldman, who currently practices cybersecurity and national security law at WilmerHale. Zach was previously a policy adviser in the Department of Treasury’s Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, and formerly was Director of

  • Book Talk: The Trump Administration and International Law – A Conversation with Harold Koh moderated by Jeffrey Toobin

    [youtube id="xMC-cOxo37U" width="600" height="350" autoplay="no" api_params="" class=""] Monday, November 26, 2018 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM  NYU School of Law Lester Pollack Colloquium, 9th Floor | Furman Hall 245 Sullivan Street RSVP for this event CLE credit is available for this event. Please see below. Books will be available for purchase.    The Reiss Center

  • The killing of Khashoggi and the future of U.S.-Saudi relations – An evening with Barnett Rubin

          The Reiss Center on Law and Security at New York University School of Law and The Century Foundation held a discussion on Wednesday, December 5, with Barnett Rubin. Drawing on his decades-long friendship with Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, and his longstanding engagement with Saudi Arabia, he discussed the impact of the murder on Saudi stability and

  • A Road Less Traveled: National Security Careers After Law School – Rachel Goldbrenner

    On Friday, January 23, the Reiss Center on Law and Security and the National Security Law Society hosted Rachel Goldbrenner, Executive Director of the Reiss Center on Law and Security for the inaugural session of a series with national security law and policy practitioners. Prior to heading the Reiss Center, Goldbrenner served in a number of

  • Book Talk: Dawn of the Code War
    John P. Carlin, in conversation with
    Lisa O. Monaco

    Tuesday, January 29, 2019 11:00 A.M. - 12:15 P.M.  NYU School of Law Furman Hall, Lester Pollack Colloquium, Ninth Floor 245 Sullivan Street     The Reiss Center on Law and Security and the NYU Center for Cybersecurity at NYU School of Law held a conversation with John P. Carlin, former Assistant Attorney General for National

  • Dr. Alexander Bick of Johns Hopkins SAIS speaks with NYU Law Students

    Wilf Hall 139 MacDougal St., New York, NY

    On January 30, the Reiss Center on Law and Security and the National Security Law Society hosted Dr. Alexander Bick, Research Scholar at the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs at Johns Hopkins SAIS. Bick is the former Director for Syria at the National Security Council in the Obama Administration and a former member of