The Center on Law and Security hosted a talk on “Surveillance and Intelligence Oversight in the UK: A View from Across the Pond,” with Kevin Metcalfe, Technical Liaison Director with the Embassy of the United Kingdom in Washington. Kevin discussed the organization of the intelligence community in the UK, and the ways in which the British
The Center on Law and Security hosted a discussion on “Putin's Strategy and America's Response: Sanctions and the Ukraine” with Walter E. Meyer Professor of Law Stephen Holmes and Deputy Assistant Secretary of Threat Finance and Sanctions Peter Harrell. Professor Holmes and Deputy Assistant Secretary Harrell elaborated on Russian President Vladimir Putin’s world view and strategy for projecting
The Center on Law and Security was pleased to host John Rizzo, former top lawyer at the CIA, and author of his new book, Company Man: Thirty Years of Controversy and Crisis in the CIA (2014). John Rizzo discussed his book and time as Chief Legal Officer at the Central Intelligence Agency.
To watch videos of the conference please click below: Panel 1: Cybersecurity and the Private Sector Panel 2: Cybersecurity Investigations Panel 3: The Law and Strategy of Cyber Conflict Panel 4: Looking Ahead: Changes in the Cybersecurity Landscape September 19, 2014 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Greenberg Lounge 40 Washington Square South NYU School of
On October 8, 2014, CLS hosted a book talk about Islamists in power in the post-Arab Spring Middle East with Shadi Hamid, Fellow at the Brookings Institution, for a discussion of his new book Temptations of Power: Islamists and Illiberal Democracy in a New Middle East. The book analyzes what happens when previously repressed Islamist groups take
CLS hosted Giuliano Amato, former Prime Minister of Italy and Vice President of the Convention on the Future of Europe to discuss the current state of democracy as Europe and the West face threats from failed democracies, including in Russia and throughout the post-Revolutionary Middle East, surrounding its entire periphery.
Discussion with Judi Germano, Senior Fellow at the Center on Law and Security and Adjunct Professor of Law. The discussion will be on the latest cyberthreats and issues of cybercrime and cybersecurity and will take place on Friday, October 24th at 12 p.m. in Seminar Room 208, Vanderbilt Hall (40 Washington Square South). Cybercrime and cybersecurity have
Monday, November 3, 2014 | 6:15 p.m. Lester Pollack Colloquium, Furman Hall The Center on Law and Security and the Wilson Center present a discussion of intelligence oversight from a comparative perspective with: Chief Justice (ret.) Dorit Beinisch, Weinstein Family Distinguished Fellow at the Center on Law and Security and former Chief Justice of Israel;
The Center hosted a book talk with Shane Harris, senior writer at Foreign Policy magazine, who discussed his new book “@War: The Rise of the Military-Internet Complex.” The book is a description and analysis of the new role of the military and intelligence agencies in cyberspace, and about their relationship with private technology and finance companies.
Book Talk: Dr. David Scharia and Pres. (ret.) Dorit Beinisch The Center on Law and Security invites you to a book talk with Dr. David Scharia, Counter Terrorism Executive Directorate (CTED), United Nations Security Council.* The book Judicial Review of National Security provides an overview of judicial review of national security matters in Israel, describing the various formal