BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Reiss Center on Law and Security - ECPv6.10.2//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Reiss Center on Law and Security X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.lawandsecurity.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Reiss Center on Law and Security REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20190310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20191103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20200308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20201101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20210314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20211107T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20220313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20221106T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221012T131000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221012T142500 DTSTAMP:20260813T092930 CREATED:20220929T173518Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221108T211412Z UID:11533-1665580200-1665584700@www.lawandsecurity.org SUMMARY:Investigating Mar-a-Lago DESCRIPTION:[youtube id=”w8afCO7TbQo” width=”600″ height=”350″ autoplay=”no” api_params=”” class=””] \n  \n \nThe 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. \nWhat 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 events of January 6? How do the interests of the intelligence community figure into whether and how to bring criminal charges in such cases? How should we assess the performance of the Justice Department and intelligence community to date? What is essential to understand—and what are common misconceptions about—the Espionage Act\, the rules governing (de)classification\, executive privilege\, and the Presidential Records Act? \nAt this Forum\, experts with backgrounds in law\, journalism\, intelligence\, and senior government service will explore the state of play in the case and analyze the bigger picture. This event is co-hosted by the Reiss Center on Law and Security and the NYU Law Forum. \nThis event has been approved for one New York State CLE credit in the category of Areas of Professional Practice. The credit is both transitional and non-transitional; it is appropriate for both experienced and newly admitted attorneys. CLE Information \n \n \n  \nWednesday\, October 12\n1:10 – 2:25 p.m.\nVirtual Event \nSpeakers:\nBob Bauer\, Professor of Practice and Distinguished Scholar in Residence\, NYU School of Law; Distinguished Senior Fellow\, Reiss Center on Law and Security; former White House Counsel to President Barack Obama \nCarol Leonnig\, National Investigative Reporter\, The Washington Post \nMary McCord\, Executive Director\, Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection\, Georgetown University Law Center; former Acting Assistant Attorney General for National Security\, U.S. Department of Justice \nAndrew Weissmann\, Professor of Practice\, NYU School of Law; Distinguished Senior Fellow\, Reiss Center on Law and Security; former lead prosecutor\, Office of Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller; former General Counsel\, Federal Bureau of Investigation \nRyan Goodman (moderator)\, Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Professor of Law\, NYU School of Law; Faculty Co-Director\, Reiss Center on Law and Security; Founding Co-Editor-in-Chief\, Just Security URL:https://www.lawandsecurity.org/calendar/investigating-mar-a-lago/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.lawandsecurity.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/LSESFORM23.2_Latham-Watkins-Forum-Mar-a-Lago-E-Sign_RCLS_RELEASE.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220919T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220919T104500 DTSTAMP:20260813T092930 CREATED:20220902T143749Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220920T202929Z UID:11397-1663579800-1663584300@www.lawandsecurity.org SUMMARY:The Origins of the Sicilian Mafia: What We Know and What We Still Cannot Explain DESCRIPTION:The origin of the Sicilian mafia has been attributed to the demand of property rights enforcement in the markets of land\, sulfur\, citrus fruits and labor conflicts in 19th century Sicily. But what about the “supply”? How has the mafia developed and maintained its power of intimidation for 180 years? On September 19\, Diego Gambetta\, author of “The Sicilian Mafia: The Business of Private Protection” and “Codes of the Underworld: How Criminals Communicate\,” will reflect on the as yet unsolved mysteries of this organization. \n\n\nPlease join us for this breakfast talk with Professor Gambetta\, who is visiting NYU Law in the Fall of 2022 as a Hauser Distinguished Global Fellow and is the Carlo Alberto Chair in Social and Political Science\, Collegio Carlo Alberto. The discussion will be moderated by Reiss Center Faculty Co-Director Stephen Holmes\, Walter E. Meyer Professor of Law and co-author\, most recently\, of “The Light That Failed: A Reckoning.” \nThis event is co-hosted by the Reiss Center on Law and Security and the Hauser Global Law School Program. \n  \n\n\n \n \n \n  \nEvent Details\nSeptember 19\, 2022 \n9:30 – 10:45 a.m. \nFurman Hall \nRoom 120 \nSpeaker Bios\nDiego Gambetta holds the Carlo Alberto Chair in social and political science at Collegio Carlo Alberto\, in Turin\, Italy. His main interests are trust\, signalling theory and its applications\, organised crime\, and violent extremists. He spent much of his career in the UK\, first at King’s College\, Cambridge\, for his doctorate (1983) and as a Research Fellow (1984-1991). He was then at the University of Oxford\, including as a University Reader at All Souls College (1995- 2003) and as a Professor of Sociology and an Official Fellowship of Nuffield College (2003-2012)\, where he is now an Emeritus Fellow. Diego then moved to the European University Institute in Florence with a chair in social theory (2012-2018). He has been visiting professor at the University of Chicago\, The Italian Academy at Columbia University\, EHT Zurich\, Science Po\, Stanford University\, and Collège de France. In 2000 Diego was made a Fellow of the British Academy. He is the author of The Sicilian Mafia (1993)\, Streetwise (2005\, with Heather Hamill)\, Codes of the Underworld (2009) and Engineers of Jihad (2016\, with Steffen Hertog). \n  \nStephen Holmes is a Faculty Director of the Reiss Center on Law and Security and the Walter E. Meyer Professor of Law at NYU School of Law. He specializes in the history of liberalism\, the disappointments of democratization after communism\, and the difficulty of combating terrorism within the limits of liberal constitutionalism. In 2003\, he was selected as a Carnegie Scholar. From 1997 to 2000\, Holmes was a professor of politics at Princeton. From 1985 to 1997\, he was professor of politics and law at the Law School and Political Science Department of the University of Chicago. From 1979 to 1985\, he taught at the Department of Government at Harvard University. He was also the editor-in-chief of the East European Constitutional Review from 1993-2003. Holmes is the author of Benjamin Constant and the Making of Modern Liberalism (Yale University Press\, 1984)\, The Anatomy of Antiliberalism (Harvard University Press\, 1993)\, Passions and Constraint: On the Theory of Liberal Democracy (University of Chicago Press\, 1995)\, The Matador’s Cape: America’s Reckless Response to Terror (Cambridge University Press\, 2007)\, co-author (with Cass Sunstein) of The Cost of Rights: Why Liberty Depends on Taxes (Norton\, 1999)\, and most recently\, co-author (with Ivan Krastev) of The Light that Failed: Why the West is Losing the Fight for Democracy (Pegasus\, 2020). URL:https://www.lawandsecurity.org/calendar/the-origins-of-the-sicilian-mafia-what-we-know-and-what-we-still-cannot-explain/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.lawandsecurity.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Gambetta-Graphic.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220406T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220406T140000 DTSTAMP:20260813T092930 CREATED:20211001T150641Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251009T201322Z UID:10100-1649250000-1649253600@www.lawandsecurity.org SUMMARY:A Road Less Traveled: National Security Careers After Law School – Jonathan Lee DESCRIPTION:  \nOn April 6\, 2022\, the Reiss Center on Law and Security and the National Security Law Society concluded the 2021-2022 season of A Road Less Traveled with our fifth speaker: Jonathan Lee\, Director of Global Public Policy at WhatsApp. URL:https://www.lawandsecurity.org/calendar/a-road-less-traveled-national-security-careers-after-law-school-jonathan-lee/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.lawandsecurity.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Jonathan-Lee-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220304T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220304T140000 DTSTAMP:20260813T092930 CREATED:20211001T150606Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251009T201419Z UID:10095-1646398800-1646402400@www.lawandsecurity.org SUMMARY:A Road Less Traveled: National Security Careers After Law School – Ruchi Gill DESCRIPTION:  \nOn March 4\, 2022\, the Reiss Center on Law and Security and the National Security Law Society will welcome Ruchi Gill\, Counsel at Latham & Watkins and former Deputy Chief Counsel for the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations\, our fourth speaker of the 2021-2022 season of A Road Less Traveled. URL:https://www.lawandsecurity.org/calendar/a-road-less-traveled-national-security-careers-after-law-school-ruchi-gill/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.lawandsecurity.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Ruchi-Gill.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220224T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220224T131500 DTSTAMP:20260813T092930 CREATED:20220215T175902Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241002T184558Z UID:10436-1645704000-1645708500@www.lawandsecurity.org SUMMARY:The Russia-Ukraine Crisis: Navigating Law\, Diplomacy\, and Force DESCRIPTION:[youtube id=”5FDT07j747M” width=”600″ height=”350″ autoplay=”no” api_params=”” class=””] \n  \n \n  \nIn the face of Russia’s escalation of the military crisis in Ukraine and the risk of expanded conflict in Europe\, a panel of leading experts and former US diplomats examined the current state of play\, the domestic and international law issues involved\, and the larger geopolitical and historical context. Cohosted by the NYU Law Forum\, the Reiss Center on Law and Security\, and Just Security\, the discussion addressed key questions about the resilience of European security and NATO\, the stakes for the major parties involved\, and the tools available to the United States and its allies to address the risks. \n  \nThursday\, February 24\n12:00 – 1:15 p.m.\nVirtual Event \nSpeakers:\nDan Baer\, Acting Director\, Europe Program\, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Former: U.S. Ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe; Deputy Assistant Secretary of State\, Bureau of Democracy\, Human Rights\, and Labor\, U.S. Department of State \nTess Bridgeman\, Senior Fellow & Visiting Scholar\, Reiss Center on Law and Security; Co-Editor-in-Chief\, Just Security. Former: Deputy Legal Advisor\, National Security Council\, Special Assistant to President Obama\, Associate Counsel to the President \nDaniel Fried\, Weiser Family Distinguished Fellow\, the Atlantic Council. Former: Coordinator for Sanctions Policy\, Assistant Secretary of State for Europe\, and U.S. Ambassador to Poland\, U.S. Department of State \nRose Gottemoeller\, Steven C. Házy Lecturer\, Center for International Security and Cooperation\, Stanford University. Former: Deputy Secretary General of NATO; Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security\, U.S. Department of State \nModerated by:\nViola Gienger\, Washington Senior Editor\, Just Security; Research Scholar\, NYU School of Law. Former: Senior Editor/Writer\, U.S. Institute of Peace; Pentagon and State Department Reporter\, Bloomberg News. \n\n\nBackground materials from panelists and Just Security:\nDaniel Baer. “Why the Chess Metaphor for Putin Is Wrong.” Foreign Policy. February 5\, 2022. \nDaniel Baer. “Biden may be outplaying Putin in one critical way.” The Washington Post. February 9\, 2022. \nTess Bridgeman. “Trump’s War Powers Legacy and Questions for Biden.” Just Security. February 23\, 2021. \nChris Dolan. “NATO Must Boost Hybrid Warfare Defenses.” Just Security. February 15\, 2022. \nDaniel Fried. “As Putin Aims to Re-Divide Europe\, Lessons from the Past Can Guide a Response.” Just Security. January 7\, 2022. \nDaniel Fried. “In 11th-Hour Diplomacy\, US and Europe Try to Stop Putin From Escalating War on Ukraine.” Just Security. February 13\, 2022. \nDaniel Fried and Kurt Volker. “The Speech In Which Putin Told Us Who He Was.” POLITICO Magazine. February 18\, 2022. \nDaniel Fried and Alina Polyakova. “Putin’s Long Game in Ukraine: How the West Can Still Protect Kyiv.” Foreign Affairs. February 23\, 2022. \nCISAC Stanford panel with Rose Gottemoeller and Jim Goldgeier. “Moscow’s Proposed Security Agreements: A Genuine Opening for Bargaining?” January 21\, 2022. \nThomas Graham Jr. “As Putin Lines Ukraine Border with Russian Troops\, Is There a China Factor?” Just Security. January 24\, 2022. \nNatia Kalandarishvili-Mueller. “Russia’s ‘Occupation by Proxy’ of Eastern Ukraine – Implications Under the Geneva Conventions.” Just Security. February 22\, 2022. \nSteven Keil. “Putin’s Coercion on NATO Goes Beyond Its Open Door Policy.” Just Security. January 28\, 2022. \n\n\n“War Powers Resolution Reporting Project\,” Reiss Center on Law and Security. \n  \n\n\nNote on accessibility: This virtual event requires an internet connection and a computer or smartphone. The event will have live captioning. Questions: ian.anderson@nyu.edu \n\n\nThis event is cohosted by the Reiss Center on Law and Security and Just Security URL:https://www.lawandsecurity.org/calendar/the-russia-ukraine-crisis-navigating-law-diplomacy-and-force/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.lawandsecurity.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/LSESFORM22.6_Latham-Watkins-Forum-E-Sign_Ukraine_RELEASE2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220209T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220209T140000 DTSTAMP:20260813T092930 CREATED:20211001T150631Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251009T201440Z UID:10091-1644411600-1644415200@www.lawandsecurity.org SUMMARY:A Road Less Traveled: National Security Careers After Law School – Ben Huebner DESCRIPTION:  \nOn Wednesday\, February 9\, 2022\, Reiss Center on Law and Security and the National Security Law Society resumed our 2021-2022 season of A Road Less Traveled by welcoming our third speaker: Ben Huebner\, Chief of the Civil Liberties\, Privacy\, and Transparency Office at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. URL:https://www.lawandsecurity.org/calendar/a-road-less-traveled-national-security-careers-after-law-school-ben-huebner/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.lawandsecurity.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/BenHuebner-e1633099327862.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211117T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211117T201500 DTSTAMP:20260813T092930 CREATED:20211102T182015Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211119T211912Z UID:10193-1637175600-1637180100@www.lawandsecurity.org SUMMARY:Diplomacy\, Strategy and Force: Managing Rising Tensions in Taiwan DESCRIPTION:[youtube id=”jjJfzvEbLOQ” width=”600″ height=”350″ autoplay=”no” api_params=”” class=””] \n  \n \n  \nFollowing China’s recent barrage of incursions into Taiwan’s air defense identification zone\, experts and officials on both sides of the Pacific are analyzing the risk of military conflict and options for keeping peace in the Taiwan Strait at a time of significant pressure on U.S.-China relations. A virtual panel of practitioners and experts assessed possible future scenarios for the region through the lens of strategy\, diplomacy and the law. \nCo-convened by the Reiss Center on Law and Security and the U.S.-Asia Law Institute at NYU School of Law. \n  \nThis event was approved for 1 New York State CLE credit in the category of Areas of Professional Practice. The credit was both transitional and non-transitional; it was appropriate for both experienced and newly admitted attorneys. CLE Readings \n  \nWednesday\, November 17\, 2021\n7:00 p.m. – 8:15 p.m. EST\nVirtual Event \nSpeakers:\n\nTess Bridgeman\, Senior Fellow & Visiting Scholar\, Reiss Center on Law and Security; Co-Editor-in-Chief\, Just Security\nBonnie Glaser\, Director\, Asia Program\, German Marshall Fund of the United States\nVincent Wei-cheng Wang\, Dean and Professor of Political Science\, College of Arts and Sciences\, Adelphi University\nAmb. Stephen Young\, Former Consul General of the United States of America in Hong Kong; Former Director of the American Institute in Taiwan\n\nModerated by:\n\nProfessor Jerome A. Cohen\, Faculty Director Emeritus\, U.S.-Asia Law Institute; Professor of Law Emeritus\, NYU School of Law\n\n  URL:https://www.lawandsecurity.org/calendar/diplomacy-strategy-and-force-managing-rising-tensions-in-taiwan/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.lawandsecurity.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Diplomacy-Strategy-and-Force.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211115T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211115T140000 DTSTAMP:20260813T092930 CREATED:20211001T150620Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251009T201513Z UID:10086-1636981200-1636984800@www.lawandsecurity.org SUMMARY:A Road Less Traveled: National Security Careers After Law School – Akunna Cook DESCRIPTION:  \nOn Monday\, November 15\, 2021\, the Reiss Center on Law and Security and the National Security Law Society welcomed Akunna Cook\, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Southern Africa and Economic and Regional Affairs at the U.S. Department of State\, our second speaker of the 2021-2022 season of a A Road Less Traveled. URL:https://www.lawandsecurity.org/calendar/a-road-less-traveled-national-security-careers-after-law-school-akunna-cook/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.lawandsecurity.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Akunna-Cook.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211020T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211020T120000 DTSTAMP:20260813T092930 CREATED:20211015T223828Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240711T180628Z UID:10153-1634727600-1634731200@www.lawandsecurity.org SUMMARY:The War on Terror: Twenty More Years? DESCRIPTION:[youtube id=”ZrCqO9sz0jg” width=”600″ height=”350″ autoplay=”no” api_params=”” class=””] \n  \n \n  \nAs the debate over U.S. presidential war powers gains steam in Washington\, the Reiss Center co-sponsored a virtual panel discussion and Q&A\, jointly organized with Just Security and the International Crisis Group. In “The ‘War on Terror’: Twenty More Years?\,” a panel of experts in national security policy and law discussed the legal underpinnings of the “war on terror” and whether our current approach needs an overhaul. \nFor further background reading and expert analysis: \n\nInternational Crisis Group\, Overkill: Reforming the Legal Basis for the U.S. War on Terror (CLE reading)\nFrom How Perpetual War Has Changed Us: Reflections on the 20th Anniversary of 9/11:\n\n*Brian Finucane and Stephen Pomper\, Crossing Back Over: Time to Reform the Legal Culture and Legal Practice of the “War on Terror” (CLE reading)\n*Tess Bridgeman\, Paradigm Shift: The Consequences of Choosing a War Path\, and Leaving It (CLE reading)\n\n\nThe Reiss Center’s War Powers Resolution Reporting Project\n\nThis event was approved for one New York State CLE credit in the category of Areas of Professional Practice. The credit was both transitional and non-transitional; it was appropriate for both experienced and newly admitted attorneys. CLE readings marked in list above. \n  \nWednesday\, October 20\, 2021\n11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. EDT\nVirtual Event \nRegister to Attend\nSpeakers:\n\nTess Bridgeman\, Co-Editor-in-Chief of Just Security and Senior Fellow & Visiting Scholar at the Reiss Center on Law and Security (RCLS)\nLt. Col. John Cherry (USMC\, Ret.)\, ICB Attorney\, Defense Institute of International Legal Studies\nLoren DeJonge Schulman\, Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS)\nBrian Finucane\, Crisis Group U.S. Program Senior Adviser\n\nModerated by:\n\nMichael Hanna\, Crisis Group U.S. Program Director and RCLS Non-Resident Senior Fellow\n\nThis event was co-sponsored by the International Crisis Group and Just Security URL:https://www.lawandsecurity.org/calendar/the-war-on-terror-twenty-more-years/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.lawandsecurity.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/war-on-terror-20x21-v4.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211019T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211019T140000 DTSTAMP:20260813T092930 CREATED:20211001T150552Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251009T201637Z UID:10080-1634648400-1634652000@www.lawandsecurity.org SUMMARY:A Road Less Traveled: National Security Careers After Law School – Alex Abdo DESCRIPTION:  \nOn Tuesday\, October 19\, 2021\, the Reiss Center on Law and Security and the National Security Law Society welcomed our first speaker of the 2021-2022 season of a A Road Less Traveled: Alex Abdo\, Litigation Director of the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University. URL:https://www.lawandsecurity.org/calendar/a-road-less-traveled-national-security-careers-after-law-school-alex-abdo/ LOCATION:Vanderbilt Hall 202\, 40 Washington Square S\, New York\, NY\, 10012\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.lawandsecurity.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Alex-Abdo.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211001T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211001T141000 DTSTAMP:20260813T092930 CREATED:20210805T204954Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240711T181104Z UID:9522-1633089600-1633097400@www.lawandsecurity.org SUMMARY:Virtual AI Symposium\, Session 3 Protecting and Promoting AI Innovation: Patent Eligibility Reform as an Imperative for National Security and Innovation DESCRIPTION:Panel 1\n[youtube id=”biIvlZb2_3M” width=”600″ height=”350″ autoplay=”no” api_params=”” class=””] \nPanel 2\n[youtube id=”rkNBFmgrRJA” width=”600″ height=”350″ autoplay=”no” api_params=”” class=””] \n  \nThe legal symposium Security\, Privacy\, and Innovation: Reshaping Law for the AI Era convened experts to debate critical legal issues around AI. Co-hosted by the Reiss Center on Law and Security\, the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence\, the Berkman Klein Center\, and Just Security\, the symposium explored how the law must adapt to promote innovation while addressing serious questions around the development and use of AI in the United States and globally. \nThe third session of the symposium\, Protecting and Promoting AI Innovation: Patent Eligibility Reform as an Imperative for National Security and Innovation\, consisted of two one-hour panels with a 10 minute intermission in between. The first panel featured a debate between arguments for and against reform to the patent eligibility doctrine. \nThe second panel added further insight to these positions and discuss practical impacts on innovation in AI and other emerging technologies. The discussion covered national security implications\, capacity\, and comparative issues. \nVisit the full symposium page to see dates\, times\, and speaker lists for the entire symposium.   \nThis event was approved for two New York State CLE credit in the category of Areas of Professional Practice. The credit was both transitional and nontransitional; it was appropriate for both experienced and newly admitted attorneys. \nCLE Readings \n  \n            \n  \nFriday\, October 1 12:00 – 2:10 p.m. Virtual Event \n  \nPanel 1 Speakers:\n\n\n\nAndrei Iancu\, Former Director\, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office \nDavid Jones\, Executive Director\, High Tech Inventors Alliance \nPaul Michel\, Former Chief Judge of Federal Circuit \nModerated by:\nRuth L. Okediji\, Jeremiah Smith\, Jr. Professor of Law\, Harvard School of Law \n\n\n\nPanel 2 Speakers:\n\n\n\nRyan Abbott\, Professor of Law and Health Sciences\, University of Surrey School of Law; Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medicine\, David Geffen School of Medicine\, UCLA \nDrew Hirshfeld\, performing the functions and duties of the Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO \nLaura Sheridan\, Senior Patent Counsel and Head of Patent Policy at Google \nHans Sauer\, Deputy General Counsel\, VP for IP\, Biotechnology Industry Organization \nModerated by:\nKristen Jakobsen Osenga\, Austin E. Owen Research Scholar & Professor of Law\, University of Richmond School of Law \n  \n\nThis event was co-sponsored by the Reiss Center on Law and Security\, the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence\, the Berkman Klein Center\, and Just Security. \n  URL:https://www.lawandsecurity.org/calendar/ai-legal-symposium-session-3-protecting-and-promoting-ai-innovation-patent-eligibility-reform-as-an-imperative-for-national-security-and-innovation/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.lawandsecurity.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/AI-Symposium-Twitter-Card-5.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210924T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210924T131500 DTSTAMP:20260813T092930 CREATED:20210805T204909Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211005T155224Z UID:9511-1632484800-1632489300@www.lawandsecurity.org SUMMARY:Virtual AI Symposium\, Session 2 Constitutional Values and the Rule of Law in the AI Era: Confronting a Changing Threat Landscape DESCRIPTION:[youtube id=”31uYSLWX2tk” width=”600″ height=”350″ autoplay=”no” api_params=”” class=””] \n  \nThe legal symposium Security\, Privacy\, and Innovation: Reshaping Law for the AI Era convenes experts to debate critical legal issues around AI. Co-hosted by the Reiss Center on Law and Security\, the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence\, the Berkman Klein Center\, and Just Security\, the symposium explores how the law must adapt to promote innovation while addressing serious questions around the development and use of AI in the United States and globally. \nThe second session of the symposium\, Constitutional Values and the Rule of Law in the AI Era: Confronting a Changing Threat Landscape\, focused on how AI-enabled technologies are changing the threat landscape and considered safeguards needed to protect constitutional values and the rule of law more broadly. An expert legal panel considered issues such as the adequacy of the Fourth Amendment in the AI era; the unique equities and issues raised by government use of AI in the intelligence\, law enforcement\, and border security contexts; and growing concerns around algorithmic bias\, biometric technologies\, deep fakes\, malign information\, and other AI-enabled cyber activities\, and the need for regulation to address these challenges. \nVisit the full symposium page to see dates\, times\, and speaker lists for the entire symposium.   \nThis event was approved for one New York State CLE credit in the category of Areas of Professional Practice. The credit was both transitional and nontransitional; it was appropriate for both experienced and newly admitted attorneys. \nCLE Reading Materials. \n  \n            \n  \nFriday\, September 24 12:00 – 1:15 p.m. Virtual Event \n  \nSpeakers:\n\nGlenn Gerstell\, former NSA General Counsel; Senior Adviser\, Center for Strategic and International Studies  \nAziz Huq\, Frank and Bernice J. Greenberg Professor of Law\, University of Chicago Law School \nRiana Pfefferkorn\, Research Scholar\, Stanford Internet Observatory \n\nModerated by:\nJulie Owono\, Executive Director\, Internet Sans Frontières (Internet Without Borders); Member\, Facebook Oversight Board; Affiliate\, Berkman Klein Center on Internet & Society \n  \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Reiss Center on Law and Security\, the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence\, the Berkman Klein Center\, and Just Security. \n  URL:https://www.lawandsecurity.org/calendar/ai-legal-symposium-session-2-protecting-constitutional-values-and-the-rule-of-law-while-confronting-a-changing-threat-landscape-in-the-ai-era/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.lawandsecurity.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/AI-Symposium-Twitter-Card-5.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210917T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210917T131500 DTSTAMP:20260813T092930 CREATED:20210805T204805Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241002T185152Z UID:9502-1631880000-1631884500@www.lawandsecurity.org SUMMARY:Virtual AI Symposium\, Session 1 Responding to AI-Enabled Surveillance and Digital Authoritarianism DESCRIPTION:  \n[youtube id=”FRGgptekYf0″ width=”600″ height=”350″ autoplay=”no” api_params=”” class=””] \n  \nThe legal symposium Security\, Privacy\, and Innovation: Reshaping Law for the AI Era convenes experts to debate critical legal issues around AI. Co-hosted by the Reiss Center on Law and Security\, the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence\, the Berkman Klein Center\, and Just Security\, the symposium explores how the law must adapt to promote innovation while addressing serious questions around the development and use of AI in the United States and globally. \nThe first session of the symposium\, Responding to AI-Enabled Surveillance and Digital Authoritarianism\, will examine the potential uses of AI-enabled technologies to supercharge surveillance\, suppress dissent\, enable human rights violations\, collect personal data\, and impose social control around the world. The panel will convene legal and technological experts to address the role of international law\, technical standards bodies\, and organizations like the OECD to address this growing challenge and explore how democratic nations can use legal tools to promote responsible technology and counter malign uses of AI-enabled systems. \nVisit the full symposium page to see dates\, times\, and speaker lists for the entire symposium. \nThis event has been approved for one New York State CLE credit in the category of Areas of Professional Practice. The credit is both transitional and nontransitional; it is appropriate for both experienced and newly admitted attorneys.  \nCLE Reading Materials \n  \n            \n  \nFriday\, September 17\n12:00 – 1:15 p.m.\nVirtual Event \n\nSpeakers:\nOlufunmilayo Arewa\, Murray H. Shusterman Professor of Transactional and Business Law\, Beasley School of Law\, Temple University \nChinmayi Arun\, Resident Fellow\, Yale Law School; former Fellow at the Berkman Klein Center of Internet & Society \nRonald Deibert\, Director\, The Citizen Lab\, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy\, University of Toronto \nAmb. Eileen Donahoe\, Executive Director\, Global Digital Policy Incubator\, Stanford University’s Cyber Policy Center; Advisory Board member\, Just Security \nModerated by:\nJonathan Zittrain\, Faculty Director\, Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society\, Harvard Law School; Editor\,  Just Security  \n  \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Reiss Center on Law and Security\, the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence\, the Berkman Klein Center\, and Just Security. \n\n\n  URL:https://www.lawandsecurity.org/calendar/ai-legal-symposium-session-1-responding-to-ai-enabled-surveillance-and-digital-authoritarianism/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.lawandsecurity.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/AI-Symposium-Twitter-Card-5.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210609T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210609T133000 DTSTAMP:20260813T092930 CREATED:20210506T182238Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210615T132938Z UID:9104-1623241800-1623245400@www.lawandsecurity.org SUMMARY:Book Talk: Insanity Defense Congresswoman Jane Harman in Conversation with Andrew Weissmann DESCRIPTION:  \n[youtube id=”VWgU5C6ZHWE” width=”600″ height=”350″ autoplay=”no” api_params=”” class=””] \n  \n \n  \nWednesday\, June 9\, 2021\n12:30-1:30 p.m.\nVirtual Event \n  \nThe Reiss Center on Law and Security held a virtual lunchtime discussion with Congresswoman Jane Harman\, former CEO of the Wilson Center and former ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee\, in conversation with Andrew Weissmann\, Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Reiss Center and former Senior Prosecutor for Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III. They discussed Harman’s new book\, Insanity Defense: Why Our Failure to Confront Hard National Security Problems Makes Us Less Safe. This event is co-hosted by NYU Washington\, DC. \nBook Overview from St. Martin’s Press\nInsanity can be defined as doing the same thing over and over again but expecting a different result. As a nation\, America has cycled through the same defense and intelligence issues since the end of the Cold War. In Insanity Defense\, Congresswoman Jane Harman chronicles how four administrations have failed to confront some of the toughest national security policy issues and suggests achievable fixes that can move us toward a safer future. \nInsanity Defense shows why our policy inadequacies are varied and complex\, in some cases going back generations. American leaders didn’t realize soon enough that the institutions and habits formed during the Cold War were no longer effective in an increasingly multi-power world transformed by digital technology and riven by ethno-sectarian conflict. Nations freed from the fear of the Soviets no longer deferred to America as before. Yet the United States settled into a comfortable\, at times arrogant\, position as the lone superpower. At the same time our governing institutions\, which had stayed resilient\, however imperfectly\, through multiple crises\, began their own unraveling. \nCongresswoman Harman was there—as witness\, legislator\, exhorter\, enabler\, dissident and\, eventually\, outside advisor and commentator. Insanity Defense is an insider’s account of decades of American national security—of its failures and omissions—and a roadmap to making significant progress on solving these perennially difficult issues. \n  \nThis event was approved for 1.0 New York State CLE credit in the category of Areas of Professional Practice. The credit is both transitional and non-transitional; it is appropriate for both experienced and newly admitted attorneys. CLE Readings \nSpeaker Bios\nCongresswoman Jane Harman \n\n\n\n\nDuring her long public career\, ​Jane Harman served nine terms in Congress\, including four years after 9/11 as ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee\, and recently completed a decade at the nonpartisan Wilson Center as its first female president and CEO. Harman is recognized as a national expert at the nexus of security and public policy issues\, and has received numerous awards for distinguished service. She has served on advisory boards for the CIA\, Director of National Intelligence\, and the departments of Defense\, Homeland Security\, and State. Harman is currently a member of the Aspen Strategy Group and the advisory board of the Munich Security Conference and co-chairs the Homeland Security Experts Group with former Homeland Security secretary Michael Chertoff. \n  \nAndrew Weissmann \nAndrew Weissmann is a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Reiss Center on Law and Security and the Center on the Administration of Criminal Law and a Professor of Practice at NYU School of Law. He served as a lead prosecutor in Robert S. Mueller’s Special Counsel’s Office (2017-19) and as Chief of the Fraud Section in the Department of Justice (2015-2019). From 2011 to 2013\, Weissmann served as the General Counsel for the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He previously served as special counsel to then-Director Mueller in 2005\, after which he was a partner at Jenner & Block in New York City. He has taught criminal law and procedure at NYU School of Law\, Fordham Law School and Brooklyn Law School. He holds a Juris Doctor degree from Columbia Law School and was on the managing board of the Columbia Law Review. He has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Princeton University and attended the University of Geneva on a Fulbright Fellowship. URL:https://www.lawandsecurity.org/calendar/insanity-defense/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.lawandsecurity.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/INSANITY-DEFENSE-cover-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210405T124500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210405T140000 DTSTAMP:20260813T092930 CREATED:20210326T185144Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251009T201718Z UID:8216-1617626700-1617631200@www.lawandsecurity.org SUMMARY:A Road Less Traveled: National Security Careers After Law School – Maher Bitar DESCRIPTION:  \nOn Monday\, April 5\, the Reiss Center on Law and Security and the National Security Law Society welcomed our second speaker of the 2020-2021 season of a A Road Less Traveled\, our career series featuring national security law and policy practitioners. We were excited to host Maher Bitar\, Senior Director for Intelligence Programs at the National Security Council. URL:https://www.lawandsecurity.org/calendar/a-road-less-traveled-national-security-careers-after-law-school-maher-bitar/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.lawandsecurity.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Maher-Bitar-2.0-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210324T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210324T140000 DTSTAMP:20260813T092930 CREATED:20210310T215807Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240711T181552Z UID:8960-1616590800-1616594400@www.lawandsecurity.org SUMMARY:The SolarWinds Breach: What Happened and Where Do We Go From Here? DESCRIPTION:  \n[youtube id=”scElLnIwPRE” width=”600″ height=”350″ autoplay=”no” api_params=”” class=””] \n  \nIn early 2020\, the company SolarWinds suffered a massive cybersecurity breach of its software that went undetected for many months and had the effect of compromising a number of U.S. government agencies in addition to many private sector companies. Our understanding of the scale and scope of the attack is still unfolding\, and the breach will constitute an early challenge for the Biden Administration. As more information comes out about the breadth of the hack—widely suspected to be the product of a foreign espionage campaign—and its impact on both the U.S. government and the private sector\, our panelists will address what happened\, who has responsibility\, what is the legal landscape\, and what can be done to address the breach. \nThis event was approved for 1.0 New York State CLE credit in the category of Areas of Professional Practice. The credit is both transitional and non-transitional; it is appropriate for both experienced and newly admitted attorneys. CLE Readings \n  \nWednesday\, March 24\n1:00 – 2:00 p.m.\nVirtual Event \nSpeakers:\nEdward Amoroso\, Research Professor\, NYU Center for Cybersecurity; CEO\, TAG Cyber LLC \nKristen Eichensehr\, Professor of Law and Director\, National Security Law Center\, University of Virginia School of Law \nJudith Germano\, Senior Fellow\, Reiss Center on Law and Security; Distinguished Fellow\, NYU Center for Cybersecurity; Adjunct Professor of Law\, NYU School of Law \nAaron Hughes\, Group Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer\, Albertsons Companies; Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Cyber Policy\, US Department of Defense\, 2015-2017 \nModerated by:\nRandy Milch\, Co-Chair\, NYU Center for Cybersecurity; Distinguished Fellow\, Reiss Center on Law and Security; and Professor of Practice at NYU School of Law \nIf you would like to submit a question for the panelists\, you may do so on the registration page. Note on accessibility: This virtual event requires an internet connection and a computer or smartphone. If you need any accommodations\, or for any questions\, please contact Ian Anderson at ian.anderson@nyu.edu. \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Reiss Center on Law and Security and the NYU Center for Cybersecurity URL:https://www.lawandsecurity.org/calendar/the-solarwinds-breach-what-happened-and-where-do-we-go-from-here/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.lawandsecurity.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/cropped-forum-image-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210301T124500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210301T140000 DTSTAMP:20260813T092930 CREATED:20210107T224507Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251009T201916Z UID:8698-1614602700-1614607200@www.lawandsecurity.org SUMMARY:A Road Less Traveled: National Security Careers After Law School – Alissa Starzak DESCRIPTION:  \nOn March 1\, 2021\, the Reiss Center on Law and Security and the National Security Law Society welcomed Alissa Starzak\, Head of Public Policy at Cloudflare\, our fourth speaker of the 2020-2021 season of A Road Less Traveled. \n  URL:https://www.lawandsecurity.org/calendar/a-road-less-traveled-national-security-careers-after-law-school-alissa-starzak/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.lawandsecurity.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Alissa-Starzak-2-scaled-e1610060758155.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210208T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210208T191500 DTSTAMP:20260813T092930 CREATED:20210203T200241Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210219T155441Z UID:8835-1612807200-1612811700@www.lawandsecurity.org SUMMARY:Impeachment: Threats and the Constitutional Challenge DESCRIPTION:[youtube id=”Vj7zFFcAY_w” width=”600″ height=”350″ autoplay=”no” api_params=”” class=””] \n  \n \nOn the eve of the impeachment trial of Donald J. Trump\, just weeks after the violence at the Capitol\, the Reiss Center and Just Security held a discussion on the constitutional and national security issues surrounding the proceedings against the former president. Moderated by Dean Trevor Morrison\, this panel of leading scholars and former government lawyers delved into the case against President Trump—including the legal questions surrounding the trial and the broader context and purpose of impeachment in our democracy. \n1.0 credit of New York State CLE in the Areas of Professional Practice category was available for this event. This event is appropriate for both experienced and newly admitted attorneys. Available credit was both transitional and non-transitional. CLE Readings \n  \nMonday\, February 8\n6:00 – 7:15 p.m.\nVirtual Event \nSpeakers:\nBob Bauer\, Professor of Practice and Distinguished Scholar in Residence\, NYU School of Law; Distinguished Senior Fellow\, Reiss Center on Law and Security \nRyan Goodman\, Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Professor of Law\, NYU School of Law; Faculty Co-Director\, Reiss Center on Law and Security; Founding Co-Editor-in-Chief\, Just Security \nGillian Metzger\, Harlan Fiske Stone Professor of Constitutional Law\, Columbia Law School; Co-Director\, Center for Constitutional Governance \nMelissa Murray\, Frederick I. and Grace Stokes Professor of Law\, NYU School of Law; Faculty Director\, Birnbaum Women’s Leadership Network \nModerated by:\nTrevor Morrison\, Dean; Eric M. and Laurie B. Roth Professor of Law\, NYU School of Law; Faculty Co-Director\, Reiss Center on Law and Security \n  \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Reiss Center on Law and Security and Just Security. URL:https://www.lawandsecurity.org/calendar/impeachment-threats-and-the-constitutional-challenge/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.lawandsecurity.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/DASMRCLS21.1-RCLS-Constitutionality-of-Impeachment-RELEASE.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210201T124500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210201T140000 DTSTAMP:20260813T092930 CREATED:20210107T221759Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251009T202042Z UID:8693-1612183500-1612188000@www.lawandsecurity.org SUMMARY:A Road Less Traveled: National Security Careers After Law School – Ronald Newman DESCRIPTION:  \nOn February 1\, 2021\, Reiss Center on Law and Security and the National Security Law Society will resume our 2020-2021 season of A Road Less Traveled by welcoming our third speaker\, Ronnie Newman\, National Political Director of the ACLU. URL:https://www.lawandsecurity.org/calendar/a-road-less-traveled-national-security-careers-after-law-school-ronald-newman/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.lawandsecurity.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Ronnie-Newman-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210115T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210115T143000 DTSTAMP:20260813T092930 CREATED:20210112T191047Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210119T164648Z UID:8742-1610715600-1610721000@www.lawandsecurity.org SUMMARY:Crisis in Washington DESCRIPTION:  \n[youtube id=”ylY-HPQTlc4″ width=”600″ height=”350″ autoplay=”no” api_params=”” class=””] \n  \n \nDean Trevor Morrison moderated a discussion on the urgent concerns raised by recent and ongoing events in Washington\, featuring Reiss Center and other NYU Law experts in constitutional law\, criminal law and national security. \n  \nFriday\, January 15\n1:00 – 2:30 pm\nVirtual Event \n\nSpeakers\nRachel Barkow\, Vice Dean; Charles Seligson Professor of Law; Faculty Director\, Center on the Administration of Criminal Law \nPreet Bharara\, Distinguished Scholar in Residence; Adjunct Professor of Law; Host\, Stay Tuned with Preet \nRyan Goodman\, Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Professor of Law; Faculty Co-Director\, Reiss Center on Law and Security; Founding Co-Editor-in-Chief\, Just Security \nMelissa Murray\, Frederick I. and Grace Stokes Professor of Law; Faculty Director\, Birnbaum Women’s Leadership Network \nAndrew Weissmann\, Distinguished Senior Fellow\, Reiss Center on Law and Security; Adjunct Professor of Law; Partner\, Jenner & Block; Author\, Where Law Ends: Inside the Mueller Investigation; Senior Prosecutor\, Office of Special Counsel Robert Mueller (2017-2019) \nModerated by\nTrevor Morrison\, Dean; Eric M. and Laurie B. Roth Professor of Law; Faculty Co-Director\, Reiss Center on Law and Security \n  \nThis Forum was co-sponsored by the Birnbaum Women’s Leadership Network and the Reiss Center on Law and Security. URL:https://www.lawandsecurity.org/calendar/crisis-in-washington/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.lawandsecurity.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/LSSMFORM21.1-2-Crisis-in-Washington_13.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201106T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201106T120000 DTSTAMP:20260813T092930 CREATED:20201102T233727Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220721T161137Z UID:8494-1604660400-1604664000@www.lawandsecurity.org SUMMARY:The 2020 Elections and National Security: What We Learned\, What Comes Next DESCRIPTION:[youtube id=”406l8JJLEIY” width=”600″ height=”350″ autoplay=”no” api_params=”” class=””] \n  \n \nThe Reiss Center on Law and Security and Just Security at the NYU School of Law convened a virtual conversation on the 2020 elections with an expert panel. \nThe panelists discussed the national security dimensions of the Election Day process\, and the implications the election has for how the Executive Branch and Congress confront national security challenges moving forward\, including disinformation\, white supremacist groups and the rule of law. \nSpeakers\nMary McCord\, Legal Director\, Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection\, Georgetown University Law Center\nLaura Rosenberger\, Director\, Alliance for Securing Democracy\, German Marshall Fund of the United States\nKate Shaw\, Professor of Law\, Cardozo School of Law; Co-Director\, Floersheimer Center for Constitutional Democracy \nModerated by\nJoshua A. Geltzer\, Executive Director\, Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection; Executive Editor\, Just Security \n  \nFriday\, November 6\n11:00 am – 12:00 pm\nVirtual Panel Discussion \n\nSpeaker Bios\nMary McCord\n \nMary McCord serves as Legal Director at the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection (ICAP) and Visiting Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center. McCord was the Acting Assistant Attorney General for National Security at the U.S. Department of Justice from 2016 to 2017 and Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the National Security Division from 2014 to 2017. \nPreviously\, McCord was an Assistant U.S. Attorney for nearly 20 years at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia. Among other positions\, she served as a Deputy Chief in the Appellate Division\, overseeing and arguing hundreds of cases in the U.S. and District of Columbia Courts of Appeals\, and the Chief of the Criminal Division\, where she oversaw all criminal prosecutions in federal district court. \nLaura Rosenberger \nLaura Rosenberger is director of the Alliance for Securing Democracy and a senior fellow at The German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF). Before she joined GMF\, she was foreign policy advisor for Hillary for America\, where she coordinated development of the campaign’s national security policies\, messaging\, and strategy.  Prior to that\, she served in a range of positions at the State Department and the White House’s National Security Council (NSC). As chief of staff to Deputy Secretary of State Tony Blinken and later as then-Deputy National Security Advisor Blinken’s senior advisor\, she counseled on the full range of national security policy. In her role at the NSC\, she also managed the interagency Deputies Committee\, the U.S. government’s senior-level interagency decision-making forum on our country’s most pressing national security issues. \nShe received her master’s degree in international peace and conflict resolution from American University’s School of International Service\, and received her bachelors’ degrees with honors from Penn State University’s Schreyer Honors College in sociology\, psychology\, and women’s studies. She is originally from Pittsburgh\, PA\, and is an avid Steelers fan. \nKate Shaw\n \nKate Shaw is a Professor of Law and the Co-Director of the Floersheimer Center for Constitutional Democracy at Cardozo Law School. Before joining Cardozo\, Professor Shaw worked in the White House Counsel’s Office and clerked for Justice John Paul Stevens and Judge Richard Posner. \nHer scholarly work has appeared\, among other places\, in the Northwestern University Law Review\, the Columbia Law Review\, the Cornell Law Review\, the Texas Law Review\, and the Georgetown Law Journal\, and her popular writing has appeared in the New York Times\, Slate\, the Atlantic\, and the Washington Post. She also serves as a contributor with ABC News and co-hosts the Supreme Court podcast Strict Scrutiny. \nModerated by \nJoshua A. Geltzer\n \nJoshua Geltzer serves as the founding Executive Director of the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection as well as Visiting Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center.  He is also an International Security Program Fellow at New America and an Executive Editor at Just Security. Geltzer served from 2015 to 2017 as Senior Director for Counterterrorism at the National Security Council staff\, having served previously as Deputy Legal Advisor to the National Security Council and as Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General for National Security at the U.S. Department of Justice.  He also served as a law clerk to Justice Stephen Breyer of the U.S. Supreme Court and\, before that\, as a law clerk to Chief Judge Alex Kozinski of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. URL:https://www.lawandsecurity.org/calendar/the-2020-elections-national-security-what-we-learned-what-comes-next/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.lawandsecurity.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Josh-New-Title-The-2020-Elections-and-National-Security-e-sign-draft-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201026T134500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201026T144500 DTSTAMP:20260813T092930 CREATED:20200928T172636Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251009T202402Z UID:8136-1603719900-1603723500@www.lawandsecurity.org SUMMARY:A Road Less Traveled: National Security Careers After Law School – Nabiha Syed DESCRIPTION:  \nOn Monday\, October 26\, the Reiss Center on Law and Security and the National Security Law Society welcomed our second speaker of the 2020-2021 season of a A Road Less Traveled\, our career series featuring national security law and policy practitioners. We were excited to welcome Nabiha Syed\, President of The Markup. \n  URL:https://www.lawandsecurity.org/calendar/a-road-less-traveled-national-security-careers-after-law-school-nabiha-syed/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.lawandsecurity.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Nabiha-Syed-headshot-e1569002130274.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201001T121000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201001T131000 DTSTAMP:20260813T092930 CREATED:20200924T135730Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240711T182003Z UID:8056-1601554200-1601557800@www.lawandsecurity.org SUMMARY:Racing National Security DESCRIPTION:In recent months\, amidst a historic uprising in the United States\, the online forum Just Security published a twelve-part series\, Racing National Security\, aimed at rendering race visible in national security to shift the dominant paradigm toward addressing issues of racial justice. \nJoin Just Security\, the Yale National Security Law Group and the Reiss Center on Law and Security for a thought-provoking and enriching virtual conversation on Thursday\, October 1\, from 12:10 – 1:10 p.m.\, with some of the symposium’s contributors. \nThe event will spark and revitalize debates beyond the confines of the series and will be moderated by the symposium editor: \n\n\nMatiangai Sirleaf\, Nathan Patz Professor of Law at the University of Maryland School of Law\n\n\nSpeakers: \n\n\nAslı Bâli\, Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law\nMonica Bell\, Associate Professor of Law at Yale School of Law and Associate Professor of Sociology at Yale University\nNoura Erakat\, Assistant Professor at Rutgers University\, New Brunswick Department of Africana Studies\n\n\nPlease RSVP to join us \nLogin details will be provided with RSVP URL:https://www.lawandsecurity.org/calendar/racing-national-security/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.lawandsecurity.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Racing-National-Security1-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200928T133500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200928T143000 DTSTAMP:20260813T092930 CREATED:20200922T154158Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251009T202428Z UID:8054-1601300100-1601303400@www.lawandsecurity.org SUMMARY:A Road Less Traveled: National Security Careers After Law School – Camille Stewart DESCRIPTION:On Monday\, September 28\, the Reiss Center on Law and Security and the National Security Law Society welcomed our first speaker of the 2020-2021 season of a A Road Less Traveled\, our career series featuring national security law and policy practitioners. We were excited to welcome Camille Stewart\, Head of Security Policy for Google Play and Android at Google and former senior policy advisor at DHS in the Obama Administration. URL:https://www.lawandsecurity.org/calendar/a-road-less-traveled-national-security-careers-after-law-school-camille-stewart/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.lawandsecurity.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Screen-Shot-2020-09-22-at-11.28.31-AM-3.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200309T124500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200309T140000 DTSTAMP:20260813T092930 CREATED:20200117T210141Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251009T202613Z UID:6015-1583757900-1583762400@www.lawandsecurity.org SUMMARY:A Road Less Traveled: National Security Careers After Law School – Vance Serchuk DESCRIPTION:On Monday\, March 9\, the Reiss Center on Law and Security and the National Security Law Society welcomed our fourth speaker in A Road Less Traveled\, our career series featuring national security law and policy practitioners. We heard from Vance Serchuk\, Executive Director of the KKR Global Institute\, about his wide-ranging national security career\, including his time on Capitol Hill. \n\nView the full speaker lineup for the 2019-2020 series URL:https://www.lawandsecurity.org/calendar/a-road-less-traveled-national-security-careers-after-law-school-vance-serchuk/ LOCATION:Furman Hall\, Room 318\, 245 Sullivan Street\, New York\, NY\, 10012\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.lawandsecurity.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Vance_Serchuk_square.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200219T124500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200219T140000 DTSTAMP:20260813T092930 CREATED:20200214T040635Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240711T182228Z UID:6109-1582116300-1582120800@www.lawandsecurity.org SUMMARY:Law\, Policy\, and Public Health: The Case of Coronavirus DESCRIPTION:[youtube id=”FW6EZVBjGDg” width=”600″ height=”350″ autoplay=”no” api_params=”” class=””] \n  \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \nAs the coronavirus threat continues to grow\, China\, the United States\, and the rest of the world are grappling with the global health\, economic\, and political stakes of the WHO-declared public health emergency. At this Latham & Watkins Forum\, a diverse panel of experts assessed unfolding efforts to contain coronavirus and discuss the legal and policy issues faced by individual countries and the international community in dealing with the threat posed by epidemics and pandemics. \nWednesday\, February 19\, 2020\n12:45-2:00 p.m. \nVanderbilt Hall\, Greenberg Lounge\n40 Washington Square South \nSpeakers: \n\nHoward Zucker\, Commissioner of Health for New York State; former U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Health and former Assistant Director-General of the World Health Organization\nShitong Qiao\, Jerome A. Cohen Visiting Professor of Law\, NYU School of Law (Spring 2020)\nAlexandra Phelan\, Member\, Center for Global Health Science and Security; Faculty Research Instructor\, Department of Microbiology and Immunology; and Adjunct Professor of Law\, Georgetown University\nLaurie Garrett\, Former Senior Fellow for Global Health\, Council on Foreign Relations; Science writer and Pulitzer Prize winner for coverage of Ebola outbreak in Zaire\nLisa Monaco (moderator)\, Distinguished Senior Fellow\, Reiss Center on Law and Security and Adjunct Professor of Law\, NYU School of Law; former Homeland Security Advisor to President Obama URL:https://www.lawandsecurity.org/calendar/law-policy-public-health-coronavirus/ LOCATION:Greenberg Lounge\, 40 Washington Square South\, New York\, NY\, 10012\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.lawandsecurity.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Latham-Watkins-Forum-E-Sign_Coronavirus.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200218T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200218T124500 DTSTAMP:20260813T092930 CREATED:20200214T213804Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200925T205739Z UID:6125-1582025400-1582029900@www.lawandsecurity.org SUMMARY:Crisis at the Justice Department: Perspectives on Prosecutorial Independence and Political Interference DESCRIPTION:  \n[youtube id=”6qI9QqL_6N0″ width=”600″ height=”350″ autoplay=”no” api_params=”” class=””] \n  \n \n  \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \nIn recent days\, we have seen evidence of turmoil at the Department of Justice\, including the highly unusual withdrawal of four prosecutors from the Roger Stone case following an intervention by DOJ leadership to reverse the government’s recommended sentence\, the decision by Attorney General William Barr to open an outside review into the Michael Flynn case\, and direct commentary on Twitter by President Donald Trump about ongoing cases. \nThe Reiss Center on Law and Security and Just Security hosted a conversation with NYU Law faculty who previously served as senior DOJ and Executive Branch lawyers. The panel provided insight into the Stone case and others\, and evaluated the relative significance of these events. Panelists also addressed the role of various actors—including the Attorney General and the White House—in DOJ prosecutorial decisions\, and the challenges to DOJ independence from political forces. \nTuesday\, February 18\n11:30 a.m. – 12:45 p.m.\nFurman Hall\, Lester Pollack Colloquium (9th floor)\n245 Sullivan Street\nNew York\, NY 10012 \nSpeakers:\n\nBob Bauer\, Distinguished Senior Fellow\, Reiss Center on Law and Security; former White House Counsel to President Obama\nLisa Monaco\, Distinguished Senior Fellow\, Reiss Center on Law and Security; former AAG for National Security and former Homeland Security Advisor to President Obama\nAndrew Weissmann\, Distinguished Senior Fellow\, Reiss Center on Law and Security; former General Counsel\, FBI and former Senior Special Counsel for Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III\nRyan Goodman (moderator)\, Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Professor of Law\, NYU School of Law; Faculty Co-director\, Reiss Center on Law and Security; Co-editor-in-chief\, Just Security URL:https://www.lawandsecurity.org/calendar/crisis-at-the-justice-department/ LOCATION:Lester Pollack Colloquium\, Furman Hall\, 245 Sullivan Street\, New York\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.lawandsecurity.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/2.18.20-DOJ-Event-Twitter.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200211T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200211T121500 DTSTAMP:20260813T092930 CREATED:20200117T204420Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251009T202648Z UID:6008-1581418800-1581423300@www.lawandsecurity.org SUMMARY:A Road Less Traveled: National Security Careers After Law School - Anna Makanju DESCRIPTION:On Tuesday\, February 11 at 11:00 a.m. in Furman Hall\, Room 318\, the Reiss Center on Law and Security and the National Security Law Society welcomed our third speaker in A Road Less Traveled\, our career series featuring national security law and policy practitioners. We heard from Anna Makanju\, Public Policy Manager for Global Elections at Facebook\, about her wide-ranging national security career\, including her time in the executive branch. \n\nView the full speaker lineup for the 2019-2020 series  URL:https://www.lawandsecurity.org/calendar/a-road-less-traveled-national-security-careers-after-law-school-anna-makanju/ LOCATION:Furman Hall\, Room 318\, 245 Sullivan Street\, New York\, NY\, 10012\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.lawandsecurity.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Makanju-e1579293940737.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200116T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200116T133000 DTSTAMP:20260813T092930 CREATED:20191223T160825Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200807T045416Z UID:5957-1579176000-1579181400@www.lawandsecurity.org SUMMARY:Reforming the FISA Process:Proposals for the Future DESCRIPTION:[youtube id=”uRLuDvHiuVc” width=”600″ height=”350″ autoplay=”no” api_params=”” class=””]\n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \nA recent report by the Department of Justice’s Office of the Inspector General made waves for its detailed criticism of the warrants obtained in the Carter Page case. In the wake of that report\, a diverse range of advocates\, thinkers and lawmakers have renewed calls to reform the surveillance authorization process under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). Yet even with a growing consensus around the need for change\, forging agreement on the nature and scope of the problem and the proper substance of FISA reforms remains challenging. \nNYU School of Law’s Reiss Center on Law and Security and Just Security convened a public conversation featuring an expert panel to diagnose the problems and foster ideas for solutions. \nSpeakers\nLiza Goitein\, Director\, Liberty & National Security Program\, Brennan Center for Justice\nAndrew McCabe\, Legal Analyst\, CNN; former Acting Director and Deputy Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)\nJulian Sanchez\, Senior Fellow\, Cato Institute; Founding Editor\, Just Security\nAndrew Weissmann\, Distinguished Senior Fellow\, Reiss Center on Law and Security\, NYU School of Law; former General Counsel\, FBI and Senior Special Counsel for Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III \nModerated by\nAdam Serwer\, Staff Writer\, The Atlantic \n  \nThursday\, January 16\n12:00 – 1:30 pm\nLipton Hall\n108 W. 3rd Street\nNew York\, NY \n1.5 credits of New York State CLE in the Areas of Professional Practice category were available. This event was appropriate for both newly admitted and experienced attorneys. \nSpeaker Bios\nLiza Goitein \nElizabeth (Liza) Goitein co-directs the Brennan Center for Justice’s Liberty and National Security Program\, which seeks to advance effective national security policies that respect constitutional values and the rule of law. Before coming to the Brennan Center\, Ms. Goitein served as counsel to Senator Feingold\, Chairman of the Constitution Subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee. As counsel to Senator Feingold\, Ms. Goitein handled a variety of liberty and national security matters\, with a particular focus on government secrecy and privacy rights. She also worked on matters involving immigration\, juvenile justice\, sentencing\, prisoner re-entry\, and First Amendment issues. Previously\, Ms. Goitein was a trial attorney in the Federal Programs Branch of the Civil Division of the Department of Justice. \nAndrew McCabe \nAndrew G. McCabe\, author of the New York Times bestselling book\, The Threat: How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump\, spent 21 years in the FBI. On May 9\, 2017 he became acting director of the FBI after the firing of FBI Director James Comey. Prior to this role\, he served as the deputy director where he oversaw all of the FBI’s operations and intelligence collection activities. Mr. McCabe also previously served as associate deputy director\, responsible for the management of all FBI personnel\, budget\, administration\, technology and infrastructure. \nMr. McCabe began his career as a special agent with the FBI in 1996\, assigned to the New York Field Office\, investigating and supervising Russian organized crime cases. In 2006\, Mr. McCabe shifted his focus to national security when he was promoted to FBI Headquarters in the Counterterrorism Division. In 2008\, Mr. McCabe was promoted to assistant special agent in charge of the Washington Field Office’s Counterterrorism Division where he received the FBI Director’s Award for his work on the 56th Presidential Inauguration. \nMr. McCabe returned to FBI Headquarters in 2009 to build and oversee the High Value Detainee Interrogation Group (HIG)\, which was President Obama’s effort to transform the government’s interrogation of terrorists. In 2012\, Mr. McCabe became the assistant director in charge of the FBI’s Counterterrorism Division. \nIn 2013\, Mr. McCabe was appointed as executive assistant director of the National Security Branch where he ensured the FBI successfully executed its mission to defend the United States from all national security threats. In that role\, Mr. McCabe oversaw the FBI’s work in the Counterterrorism\, Counterintelligence\, Intelligence\, and Weapons of Mass Destruction divisions\, as well as the Terrorism Screening Center and the HIG. In September 2014\, he was named assistant director in charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office where he was responsible for all programs in the nation’s second largest FBI field division \nBefore entering the FBI\, Mr. McCabe worked as a lawyer in private practice. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Duke University in 1990 and Juris Doctor from Washington University School of Law in 1993. In 2010\, Mr. McCabe was certified by the Director of National Intelligence as a senior intelligence officer\, and in December 2014\, Mr. McCabe was awarded the Presidential Rank Award for Meritorious Service. Mr. McCabe is married\, has two children\, and lives in northern Virginia. \nJulian Sanchez \nJulian Sanchez is a senior fellow at Cato and focuses primarily on issues at the busy intersection of technology\, privacy\, civil liberties\, and new media — but also writes more broadly about political philosophy and social psychology. Before joining Cato\, Sanchez served as the Washington Editor for the technology news site Ars Technica\, where he covered surveillance\, intellectual property\, and telecom policy. Prior to that\, he was an assistant editor for Reason magazine\, where he remains a contributing editor. Sanchez’s writing has appeared in The Los Angeles Times\, The American Prospect\, Reason\, The Guardian\, Techdirt\, The American Spectator\, and Hispanic\, among others\, and he blogs regularly for The Economist’s Democracy in America. Sanchez studied philosophy and political science at New York University. \nAndrew Weissmann \nAndrew Weissmann is a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Reiss Center on Law and Security and the Center on the Administration of Criminal Law. He served as a lead prosecutor in Robert S. Mueller’s Special Counsel’s Office (2017-19) and as Chief of the Fraud Section in the Department of Justice (2015-2019). \nDuring his previous tenure at NYU Law (2013-2015)\, Weissmann was a Senior Fellow at both the Reiss Center on Law and Security and the Center for the Administration of Criminal Law. He taught courses in national security and criminal procedure. \nFrom 2011 to 2013\, Weissmann served as the General Counsel for the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He previously served as special counsel to then-Director Mueller in 2005\, after which he was a partner at Jenner & Block in New York City. From 2002-2005\, he served as the Deputy and then the Director of the Enron Task Force in Washington\, D.C.\, where he supervised the prosecution of more than 30 individuals in connection with the company’s collapse. Weissmann was a federal prosecutor for 15 years in the Eastern District of New York\, where he served as the Chief of the Criminal Division. He prosecuted numerous members of the Colombo\, Gambino\, and Genovese families\, including the bosses of the Colombo and Genovese families. Weissmann has extensive experience in private practice. Weissmann won the largest Financial Industry Regulatory Authority arbitration award in history. He has taught criminal law and procedure at Fordham Law School and Brooklyn Law School. He holds a Juris Doctor degree from Columbia Law School and was on the managing board of the Columbia Law Review. He has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Princeton University and attended the University of Geneva on a Fulbright Fellowship. \nModerated by \nAdam Serwer \nAdam is a Staff Writer at The Atlantic. He has received awards from the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ)\, The Root\, and the Society of Professional Journalists. He was named a spring 2019 Shorenstein Center fellow and received a 2019 Hillman Prize for Opinion & Analysis Journalism. Serwer has a B.A. from Vassar College and a master’s degree from Columbia University’s School of Journalism. Following graduate school\, he was a writing fellow at The American Prospect. He later worked at Mother Jones\, MSNBC\, the Washington Post\, and BuzzFeed News as the national editor. Serwer joined The Atlantic in 2016. His work there has focused on white supremacy\, race in America\, and the Trump administration. He has won attention for influential essays like “White Nationalism’s Deep American Roots” and “The Cruelty Is the Point.” \nCLE Reading Material\n\nOffice of the Inspector General\, US Department of Justice\, Review of Four FISA Applications and Other Aspects of the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane Investigation\, Executive Summary\, pp. i-xix. (PDF)\nJulian Sanchez\, The Crossfire Hurricane Report’s Inconvenient Findings\, Just Security. (link)\nStatement of Elizabeth Goitein before the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary\, Hearing on The FISA Amendments Act: Reauthorizing America’s Vital National Security Authority and Protecting Privacy and Civil Liberties\, June 27\, 2017. (PDF) URL:https://www.lawandsecurity.org/calendar/reforming-the-fisa-process/ LOCATION:Lipton Hall\, 108 West 3rd Street\, New York\, New York ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.lawandsecurity.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/RCLS-JS-FISA-e-sign.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191212T131500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191212T170000 DTSTAMP:20260813T092930 CREATED:20191114T171021Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200807T044201Z UID:5782-1576156500-1576170000@www.lawandsecurity.org SUMMARY:Sidley Austin Forum - Washington\, DC DESCRIPTION:  \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\nSidley Austin LLP\, NYU School of Law and the Reiss Center on Law and Security presented the 4th annual Sidley Austin Forum \n\nConstitutional Questions and Political Struggle:\nCongress’ Role in Oversight and National Security\n\n\nFeaturing remarks and discussion with leading lawmakers and former executive branch officials: \n\n\nRepresentative Raja Krishnamoorthi of Illinois\, member of the House Intelligence and Oversight Committees\, on domestic oversight\nSenator Mike Lee of Utah\, member of the Senate Judiciary Committee\, on war powers and national security\nFormer White House Counsels Don McGahn and Kathy Ruemmler\, in conversation with Bob Bauer\, on the view from the executive branch\n\n\nAt a moment of acute contest between the branches\, the program probed the views of leading policymakers on Congress’ powers\, limitations and responsibilities in our constitutional system. \n\n\n\nThursday\, December 12\, 2019\n1:15 – 5:00 p.m.\nNYU Global Academic Center\n1307 L Street NW\nWashington\, DC 20005\n\n1.5 credits of New York State CLE in the Areas of Professional Practice category were available for those attending the White House Counsels panel. The panel was appropriate for both newly admitted and experienced attorneys. Attorneys seeking credit for states other than New York should contact RCLS.law@nyu.edu. \nThe Sidley Austin Forum\, co-hosted by Sidley Austin LLP\, NYU School of Law’s Legislative and Regulatory Process Clinic and the Reiss Center on Law and Security\, explores topics critical to American democracy. \nAgenda\n1:15 p.m. – REGISTRATION AND LUNCH \n1:50 p.m. – WELCOME \nSally Katzen\, Professor of Practice and Distinguished Scholar in Residence; Co-Director of the Legislative and Regulatory Process Clinic\, NYU School of Law\nPeter Roskam\, Partner\, Sidley Austin LLP; former US Representative for Illinois \n2:00-3:15 p.m. – PANEL CONVERSATION: THE VIEW FROM THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH \nModerator:\nBob Bauer\, Professor of Practice and Distinguished Scholar in Residence; Co-Director of the Legislative and Regulatory Process Clinic\, and Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Reiss Center on Law and Security\, NYU School of Law; former White House Counsel to President Barack Obama \nParticipants:\nDon McGahn\, Practice Leader Government Regulation\, Jones Day; former White House Counsel to President Donald Trump \nKathy Ruemmler\, Partner\, Latham & Watkins; former White House Counsel to President Barack Obama \n3:15-4:15 p.m. – KEYNOTE: WAR POWERS AND NATIONAL SECURITY \nMike Lee\, Senator for Utah\, member of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary \n4:15-4:30 p.m. – BREAK \n4:30-5:00 p.m. – KEYNOTE: DOMESTIC OVERSIGHT \nRaja Krishnamoorthi\, Congressman for Illinois\, member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and the House Committee on Oversight and Reform \n5:00 p.m. – CLOSING REMARKS \nSally Katzen and Bob Bauer \n5:00-5:45 p.m. – CLOSING RECEPTION \nCLE Reading Materials\n\nCommittee on the Judiciary\, U.S. House of Representatives v. Miers\, Memorandum Opinion (D.D.C. 2008)\nConstitutional Conflict and Congressional Oversight (Andrew McCanse Wright\, 2014)\nTrump v. Mazars USA\, LLP (D.C. Cir. 2019)\n“Introduction: The War Powers Resolution” (Tess Bridgeman and Stephen Pomper for “The War Powers Resolution\,” Policy Roundtable\, Texas National Security Review\, November 14\, 2019)\n\nSpeaker Bios\nRep. Raja Krishnamoorthi\nCongressman Raja Krishnamoorthi was elected in November 2016 to represent the 8th District of Illinois\, which includes the west and northwest suburbs of Chicago. Raja serves on the Oversight Committee\, for which he is also the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy\, as well as on the House Intelligence Committee. In addition to this committee work\, Raja was selected as an Assistant Whip and serves on the Steering and Policy Committee. \nRaja’s policy platform focuses on growing and strengthening the middle class by supporting small businesses\, rebuilding our infrastructure\, and protecting Social Security and Medicare.  Raja knows our economy works best when it works for all of us\, and that’s why he’s fighting to make college more affordable\, expand access to paid sick and parental leave\, and guarantee equal pay for equal work. \nRaja is the child of immigrants and was reared in Peoria\, Illinois.  He attended public schools in Peoria and was a valedictorian of his high school class.  Scholarships and student loans allowed Raja to graduate summa cum laude from Princeton University with a degree in mechanical engineering and a certificate from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public Policy.  He then graduated with honors from Harvard Law School and clerked for a federal judge before practicing law in Chicago. \nRaja pursued public service while practicing law and was appointed by Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan as a Special Assistant Attorney General to help start the state’s Public Integrity Unit created to root out corruption in Illinois.  As a member of the Illinois Housing Development Authority\, Raja chaired its Audit Committee\, helping to provide thousands of low and moderate-income families across the state with affordable housing.  Raja also served as Illinois Deputy Treasurer.  There\, he oversaw the state’s technology venture capital fund and helped revamp programs such as the state’s unclaimed property program to become leaner and more efficient. \nAfter his time in the Illinois Treasurer’s Office\, Raja returned to the private sector\, serving as president of research-oriented small businesses developing technology in the national security and renewable energy industries.  Raja also served as the Vice-Chair of the Illinois Innovation Council and co-founded InSPIRE\, a non-profit that provides inner-city students and veterans with training in solar technology. \nRaja and his wife\, Priya\, a physician\, live in Schaumburg with their two sons and baby daughter. \nSen. Mike Lee\nElected in 2010 as Utah’s 16th Senator\, Mike Lee has spent his career defending the basic liberties of Americans and Utahns as a tireless advocate for our founding constitutional principles. \nSenator Lee acquired a deep respect for the Constitution early on. His father\, Rex Lee\, who served as the Solicitor General under President Ronald Reagan\, would often discuss varied aspects of judicial and constitutional doctrine around the kitchen table\, from Due Process to the uses of Executive Plenary Power. He attended most of his father’s arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court\, giving him a unique\, hands-on experience and understanding of government up close. \nLee graduated from Brigham Young University with a Bachelor of Science in Political Science\, and served as BYU’s Student Body President in his senior year. He graduated from BYU’s Law School in 1997 and went on to serve as law clerk to Judge Dee Benson of the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah\, and then with future Supreme Court Justice Judge Samuel A. Alito\, Jr. on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. \nLee spent several years as an attorney with the law firm Sidley & Austin specializing in appellate and Supreme Court litigation\, and then served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Salt Lake City arguing cases before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. \nLee served the state of Utah as Governor Jon Huntsman’s General Counsel and was later honored to reunite with Justice Alito\, now on the Supreme Court\, for a one-year clerkship. He returned to private practice in 2007. \nThroughout his career\, Lee earned a reputation as an outstanding practitioner of the law based on his sound judgment\, abilities in the courtroom\, and thorough understanding of the Constitution. \nToday\, Lee fights to preserve America’s proud founding document in the United States Senate. He advocates efforts to support constitutionally limited government\, fiscal responsibility\, individual liberty\, and economic prosperity. \nLee is a member of the Judiciary Committee\, and serves as Chairman of the Antitrust\, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights Subcommittee protecting business competition and personal freedom. \nHe also oversees issues critical to Utah as the Chairman of the Water and Power Subcommittee of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee and serves on the Commerce Committee as well. \nIn 2019\, Lee became the Chairman of the Joint Economic Committee where he is overseeing the Social Capital Project. \nDon McGahn\nDon McGahn represents clients before government agencies\, in enforcement matters\, and in court disputes arising from government regulation or action. He handles litigation\, crisis management\, regulatory compliance\, and political issues. \nPrior to rejoining Jones Day in 2019\, Don served as Counsel to the President of the United States\, advising Donald J. Trump on all legal issues concerning the President and his administration\, including constitutional and statutory authority\, executive orders\, international agreements\, tariffs\, trade\, administrative law\, and national security. Don also managed the judicial selection process for the President. During Don’s tenure\, a historic number of judges were appointed to the federal bench\, including two Supreme Court justices. In addition\, he spearheaded President Trump’s deregulation efforts\, which resulted in deregulation at record rates. Following Don’s departure from the White House\, the President appointed him to the Council of the Administrative Conference of the United States\, a nonpartisan\, independent agency dedicated to promoting improvement to administrative agency processes. \nDon’s accomplishments have been recognized at the highest levels of government. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell stated that Don concluded his tenure “not only as the best White House Counsel I’ve seen on the job\, but more broadly\, as one of the most successful and consequential aides to any President in recent memory.” \nDon was nominated by President George W. Bush in 2008\, and confirmed in the Senate by unanimous consent\, to serve as a member of the Federal Election Commission. He also served as outside Counsel to the Committee on House Administration during the 113th and 114th Congresses and as general counsel to the National Republican Congressional Committee. \nKathy Ruemmler\nKathryn Ruemmler is the Global Chair of the White Collar Defense & Investigations Practice and a partner in the Litigation & Trial Department. \nMs. Ruemmler has broad experience advising individual executives and boards of directors in a wide range of matters\, with a particular emphasis on government enforcement and regulatory matters and corporate governance. She has built a reputation as a formidable litigator with an unusual breadth of experience in crisis management\, policy development\, and regulatory and enforcement matters. She focuses on white collar criminal defense\, SEC and other agency enforcement matters\, and congressional and internal investigations. She is also an experienced first-chair trial lawyer. Known for her skilled representation of clients in both criminal and civil jury trials\, clients in Chambers USA 2018 say Ms. Ruemmler is “a great strategic thinker” and “a real rare talent” and praise her as “a terrific advocate\,” adding that “she has the judgment\, legal skills and client management skills to represent her clients effectively.” Ms. Ruemmler rejoined the firm in 2014 after serving for almost six years in the Obama Administration\, first in the Department of Justice (DOJ) and later as Counsel to the President. As President Obama’s chief lawyer\, she was one of his most senior advisors\, providing advice on all legal matters implicating domestic and foreign policy and national security. She advised on all significant litigation matters\, including the most consequential cases heard by the United States Supreme Court. Ms. Ruemmler also managed the Administration’s response to congressional and other investigations and was responsible for the selection and nomination process of federal judges. President Obama has described her as having “an uncanny ability to see around the corners that no one else anticipates.” \nPrior to her White House service\, Ms. Ruemmler served as the Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General at the DOJ\, joining on the first day of the Obama Administration as its highest-ranking political appointee. In that role\, she was the Deputy Attorney General’s primary advisor on a range of criminal policy\, law enforcement\, national security\, and civil litigation matters. She worked closely with the Attorney General and the Deputy Attorney General in the overall management and supervision of the DOJ’s components\, including the United States Attorney’s Offices. \nMs. Ruemmler has significant jury trial experience and has tried more than 20 cases to verdict both inside the government and in private practice. She worked for six years as a federal prosecutor\, first as an Assistant United States Attorney in Washington\, D.C. and later as the Deputy Director of the Enron Task Force. Ms. Ruemmler was one of the lead prosecutors in the successful securities fraud prosecution of former Enron CEO’s Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling. She delivered the closing argument in that case and received the Attorney General’s Award for Exceptional Service\, the DOJ’s highest award\, for her performance. \nEarlier in her career\, Ms. Ruemmler served as Associate Counsel to President Bill Clinton where she defended the White House and the Office of the President in independent counsel and congressional investigations. She began her career as a law clerk to Judge Timothy K. Lewis of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. \nBob Bauer\nBob Bauer is a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Reiss Center on Law and Security at NYU School of Law\, where he is also a Professor of Practice\, Distinguished Scholar in Residence\, and Co-Director of NYU’s Legislative and Regulatory Process Clinic. \nBauer served as White House Counsel to President Obama beginning in December 2009 and returned to private practice in June 2011. In 2013\, the President named Bauer to be Co-Chair of the Presidential Commission on Election Administration\, which submitted its Report in January 2014. Bauer served as counsel to the Democratic Leader in the impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton (1999). \nIn private practice\, Bauer has represented clients on matters involving regulation of political activity before the courts and administrative agencies of national party committees\, candidates\, political committees\, individuals\, federal officeholders\, corporations and trade associations\, and tax-exempt groups. \nBauer is the author of several books on campaign finance law and articles on various topics for legal periodicals and journals\, most recently in the October 2018 issue of the New York University Law Review on the role of debates in the presidential nominating process and in the spring 2018 issue of the Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics on the role of lawyers in a national security crisis. Bauer is a Contributing Editor of Lawfare and has also written for Just Security. He has published opinion pieces on constitutional and political law issues in The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, and The Atlantic. In 2000\, he received the “Burton Award for Legal Achievement” for his legal writing. \nRSVP URL:https://www.lawandsecurity.org/calendar/sidley-austin-forum-2019/ LOCATION:NYU Global Academic Center\, 1307 L Street NW\, Washington\, DC\, 20005 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.lawandsecurity.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Sidley-Forum-1-e1573755642557.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR