• Crisis at the Justice Department: Perspectives on Prosecutorial Independence and Political Interference

    Lester Pollack Colloquium Furman Hall, 245 Sullivan Street, New York, United States

      [youtube id="6qI9QqL_6N0" width="600" height="350" autoplay="no" api_params="" class=""]     In 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

  • Law, Policy, and Public Health:
    The Case of Coronavirus

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

    [youtube id="FW6EZVBjGDg" width="600" height="350" autoplay="no" api_params="" class=""]   As 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

  • A Road Less Traveled: National Security Careers After Law School – Vance Serchuk

    Furman Hall, Room 318 245 Sullivan Street, New York, NY, United States

    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

  • A Road Less Traveled: National Security Careers After Law School – Camille Stewart

    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

  • Racing National Security

    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. Join Just Security, the Yale National Security Law Group and the Reiss Center on Law

  • A Road Less Traveled: National Security Careers After Law School – Nabiha Syed

      On 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.  

  • The 2020 Elections and National Security: What We Learned, What Comes Next

    [youtube id="406l8JJLEIY" width="600" height="350" autoplay="no" api_params="" class=""]   The 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. The panelists discussed the national security dimensions of the Election Day process, and the implications the election has for

  • Crisis in Washington

      [youtube id="ylY-HPQTlc4" width="600" height="350" autoplay="no" api_params="" class=""]   Dean 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.   Friday, January 15 1:00 – 2:30 pm Virtual Event Speakers Rachel

  • Impeachment: Threats and the Constitutional Challenge

    [youtube id="Vj7zFFcAY_w" width="600" height="350" autoplay="no" api_params="" class=""]   On 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