• The SolarWinds Breach: What Happened and Where Do We Go From Here?

      [youtube id="scElLnIwPRE" width="600" height="350" autoplay="no" api_params="" class=""]   In 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

  • A Road Less Traveled: National Security Careers After Law School – Maher Bitar

      On 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

  • Book Talk: Insanity Defense
    Congresswoman Jane Harman in Conversation with Andrew Weissmann

      [youtube id="VWgU5C6ZHWE" width="600" height="350" autoplay="no" api_params="" class=""]     Wednesday, June 9, 2021 12:30-1:30 p.m. Virtual Event   The 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

  • Virtual AI Symposium, Session 1
    Responding to AI-Enabled Surveillance and Digital Authoritarianism

      [youtube id="FRGgptekYf0" width="600" height="350" autoplay="no" api_params="" class=""]   The 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

  • Virtual AI Symposium, Session 2
    Constitutional Values and the Rule of Law in the AI Era: Confronting a Changing Threat Landscape

    [youtube id="31uYSLWX2tk" width="600" height="350" autoplay="no" api_params="" class=""]   The 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

  • Virtual AI Symposium, Session 3
    Protecting and Promoting AI Innovation: Patent Eligibility Reform as an Imperative for National Security and Innovation

    Panel 1 [youtube id="biIvlZb2_3M" width="600" height="350" autoplay="no" api_params="" class=""] Panel 2 [youtube id="rkNBFmgrRJA" width="600" height="350" autoplay="no" api_params="" class=""]   The 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

  • A Road Less Traveled: National Security Careers After Law School – Alex Abdo

    Vanderbilt Hall 202 40 Washington Square S, New York, NY, United States

      On 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.

  • The War on Terror: Twenty More Years?

    [youtube id="ZrCqO9sz0jg" width="600" height="350" autoplay="no" api_params="" class=""]     As 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

  • A Road Less Traveled: National Security Careers After Law School – Akunna Cook

      On 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.