SPEAKER BIOS Steven Simon is adjunct senior fellow for Middle Eastern studies at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and the Goldman Sachs visiting professor in public policy at Princeton University. Prior to joining CFR, Mr. Simon specialized in Middle Eastern affairs at the RAND Corporation. He came to RAND from London, where he was the
Featuring Peter Bergen, CNN's National Security Analyst and fellow, Center on Law and Security
Speaker Bios Ali Soufan is the Chief Executive Officer of the Soufan Group LLC. Mr. Soufan is a former FBI Supervisory Special Agent who investigated and supervised highly sensitive and complex international terrorism cases, including the East Africa Bombings, the attack on the USS Cole, and the events surrounding 9/11. Mr. Soufan is regarded as
Simon Chesterman is Global Professor and Director of the New York University School of Law Singapore Programme, and Vice Dean (Graduate Studies) and Professor of Law at the National University of Singapore Faculty of Law. From 2004 to 2006 he was Executive Director of NYU’s Institute for International Law and Justice, of which he remains
Shirin Ebadi, Nobel Peace Prize winner, lawyer, judge, and founder of the Center for the Defense of Human Rights in Iran, will be at the Center on Law and Security to discuss her newest book, The Golden Cage. This event is being hosted in partnership with the Kevorkian Center for Near East Studies at New
The Center on Law and Security welcomes the Hon. Jane Harman on Wednesday, September 21, 2011 for a series of events at NYU Law School. Jane Harman is the Director, President, and CEO of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Previously, she represented the aerospace center of California during nine terms in Congress, serving
Wednesday, September 12, 2012 6:30 - 8:00 p.m. NYU School of Law Lipton Hall, 108 W. 3rd Street New York, NY The video of this event is available, click here to watch. David Cohen was confirmed by the United States Senate to serve as Treasury’s Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence on June 30, 2011.
On October 8, 2012 the Center on Law and Security welcomed former Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police of the United Kingdom, Lord Ian Blair for a discussion on “Policing Legitimacy: International Terrorism, Illegal Immigration, and Cyber Crime.” Lord Blair discussed the ways that new threats and challenges, including stop and frisk programs, counterterrorism, cyber-crime, illegal
The Center on Law and Security presents President (ret.) Dorit Beinisch Supreme Court of Israel and Jeremy Waldron New York University School of Law Wednesday, October 10, 2012 6:30 - 8:00 p.m. NYU School of Law Lipton Hall, 108 W. 3rd Street New York, NY The video of this event is available, click here to watch. President Dorit Beinisch has
The Center on Law and Security and Milbank Tweed Forum present: Diplomacy in the Twenty-First Century: Challenges for a New Administration featuring Ambassador Christopher R. Hill Dean of the Josef Korbel School of International Studies University of Denver and Dr. Charles A. Kupchan Whitney Shepardson Senior Fellow Council on Foreign Relations moderated by Professor Sujit Choudhry Cecelia Goetz