33rd Annual Review of the Field of National Security Law Conference: CLE Material

Thursday, November 16, 2023

A Conversation with National Security General Counsels

• Caroline D. Krass, “Department of Defense Issues Update to DoD Law of War Manual on Presumption of Civilian Status and Feasible Precautions to Verify Military Objectives.” Just Security  (July 31, 2023)
• Oona A. Hathaway, National Security Lawyering in the Post-War Era: Can Law Constrain Power? 68 UCLA L. Rev. 2 (2021)

• Laura Dickenson, National Security Policymaking in the Shadow of International Law, Utah Law Review, Vol. 221 629 (2021)

• Robert Bauer, The National Security Lawyer In Crisis: When the "Best View" of the Law May Not be the Best View 31 Geo. J. Legal Ethics 175 (2018)

• Mary B. DeRosa, National Security Lawyering: The Best View of the Law as a Regulative Ideal, 31 Geo. J. Legal Ethics 277 (2018)

• Jack Goldsmith, Executive Branch Crisis Lawyering and the “Best View,” The Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics, (2018)

• Christopher Fonzone and Dana Remus, What About When the Best View Is The Best View?, The Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics, (2018)

• Preston, Stephen, Reflections of a Wartime General Counsel, Texas Tech Law Review (2015)

• Rebecca Ingber, Interpretation Catalysts and Executive Branch Legal Decisionmaking, 38 Yale Journal of International Law 359 (2013) 

• Preston, Stephen, CIA and the Rule of Law, 6 J. Nat’l Security L. & Pol’y 1 (2012)   

National Security and Transnational Repression:  Legal and Policy Challenges

• S.831 - Transnational Repression Policy Act (2023) 

• Jason P. Hipp, Emily Merrifield and Susanna D. Evarts, Transnational Repression Increasingly Reaches into the United States, Just Security (April 5, 2023) 

• Kate Weine, US Lawmakers Tackle Transnational Repression, Human Rights Watch, (March 24, 2023)

• Laura Dickinson et al, The Russia-Ukraine War and the Seeds of a New Liberal Plurilateral Order, GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2022-53, GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 2022-53 (September 20,2022)

• Dan E. Stigall, Ukraine Symposium Conternormativity and the International Order, Lieber Institute West Point, (May 3, 2023) 

• Don’t Be a Pawn of Repressive Foreign Governments, National Counterintelligence and Security Center  

• Transnational Repression, Federal Bureau of Investigation 

• Tools of Transnational Repression: How Autocrats Punish Dissent Overseas, House Hearing, 116th Congress, (Sept. 12, 2019)

• The Threat of Transnational Repression from China and the U.S. Response, Joint Hearing, 117th Congress,(June 15, 2022)

• Freedom House's most recent transnational repression update

• Freedom House's recent case study on China 

• Yana Gorokhovskaia, Still Not Safe: Transnational Repression in 2022, Freedom House

Teaching and Practicing Ethics: Are new internal or external rules needed?

• Hon. James E. Baker, In the Common Defense, Chapter 10 (2013)

• Pearlstein, Deborah N., Lawyering the Presidency, Georgetown Law Journal (March 19, 2021)

• Deborah Pearlstein, Why Are So Many of Trump’s Alleged Co-Conspirators Lawyers, N.Y. Times ( August 13, 2023)

• Deborah Pearlstein, What War Did to the Academy, What the Academy Did to War, 54 CASE W. RES. J. INT’L L. 171 (2022) 

• Robert H. Jackson, The Federal Prosecutor, Journal of the American Judicature Society 

• James E. Baker, Ukraine Lessons Learned - Chapter One: Does Law Matter?, Syracuse Law Review, Vol 73: 423 (2023)

• James E. Baker, The Importance of Building Fires:  Lessons Learned as a Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, 15 J. App. Prac. & Process 201 (Fall 2014/Released Spring 2015)

• James E. Baker, Process, Practice, and Principle: Teaching National Security Law and the Knowledge that Matters Most, Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics, Vol. 27, pp. 163-189, 2014
• Model Rules of Professional Conduct: ©1983 by the American Bar Association. Reprinted with permission. All rights reserved. This information or any portion thereof may not be copied or disseminated in any form or by any means or stored in an electronic database or retrieval system without the express written consent of the American Bar Association.

  • Preamble

  • 1.1 Competence

  • 1.3 Diligence

  • 1.13 Organization as Client

  • 2.1 Advisor

  • 3.3 Candor Toward the Tribunal

  • 3.5 Impartiality and Decorum of the Tribunal

  • 3.6 Trial Publicity

  • 3.7 Lawyer as Witness

  • 3.8 Special Responsibilities of a Prosecutor

  • 8.1-8.5 Maintaining the Integrity of the Profession

    • Rule 8.1

    • Rule 8.2

    • Rule 8.3

    • Rule 8.4

    • Rule 8.5

   

Private Warriors – Emerging Technologies and The Democratization of Warfare

• Gary Corn et al., “Chinese Technology Platforms Operating In The United States”, Hoover Institution ( February 11, 2021)

• Gary Corn, Ukraine Symposium – The Law Of Crowdsourced War: Democratized Supply Chains – Part I, Lieber Institute West Point ( March 1, 2023) 

• Gary Corn, Ukraine Symposium – The Law Of Crowdsourced War: Democratized Supply Chains – Part II, Lieber Institute West Point (March 15, 2023) 

• Sean Watts et al., Beyond State-Centrism: International Law and Non-state Actors in Cyberspace, 21 J. Conflict & Security Law 2016

• Sean Watts, Collective Cyber Countermeasures?, 12 HARV. NAT’L SEC. J. 373 2021
• Eric Talbot Jensen & Sean Watts, Due Diligence and the U.S. Defend Forward Cyber Strategy (Hoover Working Grp. on Nat’l Sec., Tech., & L., Aegis Series Paper No. 2006, Oct. 20, 2020)
• Dr. Kubo Mačák, Will the centre hold? Countering the erosion of the principle of distinction on the digital battlefield, International Review of the Red Cross, Vol. 105, no. 923 (June 2023).

Secrecy, Classification, and the Law 

• Dakota Rudesill,  It’s Time to Come to Terms With Secret Law: Part I. Just Security (July 20, 2016)

• Dakota Rudesill, It’s Time to Come to Terms With Secret Law: Part II,  Just Security (July 22, 2016)  

• Dakota Rudesill, Coming to Terms with Secret Law, Harvard National Security Journal / Vol. 7 (2015)

• 2020 PIDB Report: A Vision for the Digital Age: Modernization of the U.S. National Security Classification and Declassification System

• 2022 PIDB Report: Declassification of Records Relating to Nuclear Weapons Testing and Cleanup Activities in the Marshall Islands, Feasibility Study 

• Sensible Classification Act of 2023

• Classification Reform Act of 2023 

• Press Release: Senators Introduce Bipartisan Legislation to Reform the Security Classification System

• Worksheet: Senators Introduce Bipartisan Legislation to Reform the Security Classification System
• Elizabeth Goitein, Statement [written testimony], Hearing on Modernizing the Government’s Classification System, U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs, March 23, 2023
• Dakota S. Rudesill, Why Trump’s Prosecution for Keeping Secret Documents is Lawful, Constitutional, Precedented, Nonpartisan and Merited, The Conversation, July 14, 2023
• Dakota S. Rudesill & Rolf Mowatt-Larssen, Good Governance Paper No. 22: Preventing Politicization of the Security Clearance System, Just Security, Nov. 2, 2020       
• Elizabeth Goitein, The Original Sin Is We Classify Too Much, Brennan Center for Justice (January 26, 2023)
• Elizabeth Goitein, Government Classification and the Mar-a-Lago Documents, Brennan Center for Justice (October 6, 2022)
• Elizabeth Goitein, How to Fix U.S. Surveillance Law, Brennan Center for Justice (July 18, 2023)

Friday, November 17, 2023

The Future of Section 702

• Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, Report on Section 702 (September 28, 2023) 

• President’s Intelligence Advisory Board (PIAB) and Intelligence Oversight Board (IOB), Review of FISA Section 702 and Recommendations for Reauthorization (July 2023) 

• Memorandum Opinion and Order [REDACTED], (Contreras, J.), pp. 7-8; 22-49, U.S Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court  

• Laura K. Donohue, The Common Law and First Amendment Qualified Right of Public Access to Foreign Intelligence Law, 112 Geo. L. J. (2023)

• Laura K. Donohue, Surveillance, State Secrets, and the Future of Constitutional Rights, Sup. Ct. Rev. (2023) 

• Alex Joel, Necessity, Proportionality, and Executive Order 14086, May 2023

• Anunay Kulshrestha and Jonathan Mayer, Estimating Incidental Collection in Foreign Intelligence Surveillance: Large-Scale Multiparty Private Set Intersection with Union and Sum, 31st USENIX Security Symposium (2022)

• Report on Matters Related to Intelligence Activities and Investigations Arising Out of the 2016 Presidential Campaigns, May 12, 2023 (Durham Report), pp. 7-19; 98-126; 299-306

• FISA and the Future of Section 702, Panel 1: Section 702 Current Operation and Challenges; Panel 2: Section 702: Proposed Reforms; Co-sponsored by the ABA Standing Committee on Law and National Security and Georgetown Law Center on National Security, (Apr. 26, 2023)

• 24th Semiannual Assessment of Compliance With Procedures and Guidelines Issued Pursuant to Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, Submitted by the Attorney General and the Director of National Intelligence (Dec. 2021) (reporting period: Dec. 1, 2019-May 31, 2020)

• Sharon Bradford Franklin, et al., Report – Legal Loopholes and Data for Dollars: How Law Enforcement and Intelligence Agencies Are Buying Your Data from Brokers, Center for Democracy & Technology, December 9, 2021

• Sharon Bradford Franklin, Congress Should Seize This Chance to Finally End Warrantless Searches of Americans’ Communications, Center for Democracy & Technology, July 30, 2021

• Sharon Bradford Franklin, Rethinking Surveillance on the 20th Anniversary of the Patriot Act, Just Security, October 26, 2021
• Jim Baker, Reflections on Renewing and Reforming FISA Section 702, Lawfare, September 27, 2023. 
• Jim Baker, Rethinking Encryption, Lawfare (October 22, 2019)
• Julian Sanchez, Fixing FISA after the Carter Page Report, Just Security (January 2020)
• Julian Sanchez, TikTok, Schrems II, and Cross‐​Border Data Flows, CATO Institute (July 2021)
• Julian Sanchez, Report Discloses Unlawful “Backdoor Searches” of FISA Database, CATO Institute (May 2020)
• Julian Sanchez, All About “About” Collection, Just Security (April 2017)

Arctic Security, Climate Change, and the Law of the Sea

• Mark P. Nevitt et al.,Polar Opposites: Assessing the State of Environmental Law in the World’s Polar Regions, Boston College Law Review (May 2018)

• Mark P. Nevitt, Climate Change, Arctic Security, & Why the U.S. Should Join the U.N. Convention on Law of the Sea, University of Pennsylvania, Center for Ethics and Rule of Law (September 18, 2020) 

• Thad W. Allen, Arctic Imperatives: Reinforcing U.S Strategy on America's Fourth Coast, Council on Foreign Relations (March 2017)

• Testimony of Rear Admiral Nathan A. Moore, Assistant Commandant for Engineering and Logistics, on Coast Guard Shore Infrastructure, House Coast Guard & Maritime Transportation Subcommittee (September 25, 2019)

• Online Press Briefing with U.S. Coast Guard Rear Admiral Nathan Moore, Deputy Atlantic Area Commander and U.S. Coast Guard Captain Michele Schallip, Commanding Officer, Coast Guard Cutter Healy,” Department of State (October 6, 2023)

• Sherri Goodman, Changing Climates For Arctic Security, the Wilson Quarterly (2017)
• The Coast Guard’s Looming Challenges, Professor Cary Coglianese, Penn Law

Generative Ethics:The Model Rules and the Practice of National Security Law in the Age of AI

• James E.  Baker, Laurie Hobart et al,. AI for Judges: A Framework, Center for Security and Emerging Technology (December 2021)

• James E. Baker, Laurie Hobart et al,. An Introduction to Artificial Intelligence for Federal Judges, Federal Judicial Center (February 13, 2023)

• James E. Baker, Ethics and Artificial Intelligence: A Policymaker’s Guide, Center for Security and Emerging Technology (April 2021)

• Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights, The White House ( October 2022)

• James E. Baker, A DPA for the 21st Century, Center for Security and Emerging Technology (April 2021) 

• James E. Baker, Laurie Hobart, Lala Qadir, National Security Law and the Coming AI Revolution: Observations from a Symposium, Syracuse University Institute for Security Policy and Law, Georgetown Center for Security and Emerging Technology (October 29, 2020)

• James E. Baker, Artificial intelligence and national security law: A dangerous nonchalance, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (May 25, 2018)
• Lala Qadir and Lee Tiedrich, 10 Steps To Creating Trustworthy AI Applications, Law360 (April 2020)

• Model Rules of Professional Conduct: ©1983 by the American Bar Association. Reprinted with permission. All rights reserved. This information or any portion thereof may not be copied or disseminated in any form or by any means or stored in an electronic database or retrieval system without the express written consent of the American Bar Association.

  • Preamble

  • 1.1 Competence

  • 1.3 Diligence

  • 1.13 Organization as Client

  • 2.1 Advisor

  • 3.3 Candor Toward the Tribunal

The National Security Implications of Artificial Intelligence

• Ashley Deeks, National Security AI and the Hurdles to International Regulation, Lawfare (2023)

• Ashley Deeks, Regulating National Security AI Like Covert Action?, Lawfare (2023)

• Margaret Hu, Biometric Cyberintelligence and the Posse Comitatus Act, William & Mary School Scholarship Repository (2027)

• Margaret Hu, Biometric Data and Midnight Regulations | The Regulatory Review (theregreview.org), The Regulatory Review (2021)

• DOD News: AI Security Center to Open at National Security Agency (September 28, 2023)

• Fact Sheet: Biden-Harris Administration Secures Voluntary Commitments from Leading Artificial Intelligence Companies to Manage the Risks Posed by AI | The White House (July 2023)

U.S.-China Technology Competition:  National Security Innovation, Regulation, IP Theft, and Industrial Policy

• Jamil N. Jaffer, Addressing the National Security Threat of Chinese Technological Innovation, NSI 

• Andy Keiser, NSI Policy Brief: Restricting U.S Outbound Investment to Targeted Chinese Sectors, NSI (May 2023) 

• Little Giants, Single Champions: China’s Blueprint for Asymmetric Industrial Advantage, Force Distance Times (March 2023) 

• Made in China 2025” Industrial Policies: Issues for Congress, Congressional Research Service (March 10, 2023)

• CFIUS Reform Under FIRRMA, Congressional Research Service (February 21, 2020)

• Chinese Talent Plans Encourage Trade Secret Theft, Economic Espionage, FBI

• Jamil Jaffer, We Need to Protect American Innovation in the Competition with China, Newsweek (Oct. 11, 2021)  

• Sameera Fazili, Making Sure There Is a Future, Urban Institute (May 2017) 

• Sameera Fazili, A Role for the Feds? The Opportunities and Challenges in a Federal Government Role in Measuring and Defining Social Impact in the Impact Investing Field, Community Development Innovation Review, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. 2010. 

• Andy Keiser, The Race to 5G: Securing the Win, National Security Institute, March 2020

• Andy Keiser, Chinese Telecommunications Companies Huawei and ZTE: Countering a Hostile Foreign Threat,National Security Institute (January 24, 2019)