National Security Law Today

This episode references

"Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is out of coma and responsive after suspected poisoning, hospital says" CBS News, September 8, 2020

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/alexei-navalny-russian-opposition-leader-out-of-coma-suspected-poisoning/

"Trolls, tracking and films: How Putin's Russia obsessively hounded opposition leader Navalny" Washington Post, August 29, 2020

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/navalny-russia-poison-kremlin/2020/08/28/03ad9c58-e6d2-11ea-bf44-0d31c85838a5_story.html

Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Report on Russian Active Measures Campaigns and Interference in the 2016 U.S. Election, Volumes 1-5

https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/publications/report-select-committee-intelligence-united-states-senate-russian-active-measures

Statement by NCSC Director William Evanina: Election Threat Update for the American Public, August 7, 2020

https://www.dni.gov/index.php/newsroom/press-releases/item/2139-statement-by-ncsc-director-william-evanina-election-threat-update-for-the-american-public

Robert Dannenberg is a former CIA officer who served as Chief of Operations for the Counter Terrorism Center, Chief of the Central Eurasia Division and Chief of the CIA’s Information Operations Center.

https://www.susandavis.com/robert-dannenberg/

Robert Dannenberg, who served in the CIA for 24 years, discusses Putin's history and worldview, how he views NATO and the United States, and why Russia launched interference campaigns against US elections.

This episode references

"Alexei Navalny: Russia opposition leader poisoned with Novichok - Germany" BBC, September 2, 2020

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-54002880

"Trolls, tracking and films: How Putin's Russia obsessively hounded opposition leader Navalny" Washington Post, August 29, 2020

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/navalny-russia-poison-kremlin/2020/08/28/03ad9c58-e6d2-11ea-bf44-0d31c85838a5_story.html

Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Report on Russian Active Measures Campaigns and Interference in the 2016 U.S. Election, Volumes 1-5

https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/publications/report-select-committee-intelligence-united-states-senate-russian-active-measures

Statement by NCSC Director William Evanina: Election Threat Update for the American Public, August 7, 2020

https://www.dni.gov/index.php/newsroom/press-releases/item/2139-statement-by-ncsc-director-william-evanina-election-threat-update-for-the-american-public

Robert Dannenberg is a former CIA officer who served as Chief of Operations for the Counter Terrorism Center, Chief of the Central Eurasia Division and Chief of the CIA’s Information Operations Center.

https://www.susandavis.com/robert-dannenberg/

Senior women in the intelligence community discuss national security legal issues, provide career advice, and answer audience questions.

Watch the full panel video

https://www.americanbar.org/groups/law_national_security/

The biographies of all speakers can be found below

https://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/administrative/law_national_security/speaker-bios-winsl-aug.pdf

In this episode Amb. Bonnie Jenkins discusses the value of education in policy work, her different experiences in government and think tanks, and her work advocating for women of color in national security.

This episode references:

The Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (9/11 Commission)

https://9-11commission.gov/report/

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's study on Radioactive Sources: Applications and Alternative Technologies

https://www.nationalacademies.org/our-work/radioactive-sources-applications-and-alternative-technologies

NSLT episode "Women in National Security Law LIVE" June 11, 2020

https://www.americanbar.org/groups/law_national_security/nslt/20200611-women-in-nat-sec-law/

Women of Color Advancing Peace, Security, and Conflict Transformation

https://www.wcaps.org/

Amb. Bonnie Jenkins is the Founder and Chair of Women of Color Advancing Peace and Security and a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institute

https://www.brookings.edu/experts/bonnie-jenkins/

This episode references:

The President’s Executive Order on Hong Kong Normalization, July 14, 2020

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/presidents-executive-order-hong-kong-normalization/

Executive Order on Addressing the Threat Posed by TikTok, August 6, 2020

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-addressing-threat-posed-tiktok/

Cybersecurity Law of the People’s Republic of China (Translated)

https://www.newamerica.org/cybersecurity-initiative/digichina/blog/translation-cybersecurity-law-peoples-republic-china/

National Security Law Today Episode "5G and National Security LIVE with Craig Silliman," December 12, 2019

https://www.americanbar.org/groups/law_national_security/nslt/20191212-5g-and-national-security/

ABA/NPEC Space Law and Policy Workshops and Reports

https://www.americanbar.org/groups/law_national_security/resources/

United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea

https://www.un.org/depts/los/convention_agreements/convention_overview_convention.htm

English translation of the Law of the People's Republic of China on Safeguarding National Security in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Xinhua, July 1, 2020

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2020-07/01/c_139178753.htm

Hong Kong issues arrest warrant for U.S. citizen under new national security law, NBC News, August 1, 2020

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/hong-kong-issues-arrest-warrant-u-s-citizen-under-new-n1235574

Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002

https://www.soxlaw.com/ 

Dean Cheng is a Senior Research Fellow in the Asian Studies Center at the Heritage Foundation Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy

https://www.heritage.org/staff/dean-cheng

Global Health Security Agenda

https://www.cdc.gov/globalhealth/security/index.htm

Open Skies Treaty

https://www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/openskies

DOD Statement on Open Skies Treaty Withdrawal on May 21, 2020

https://www.defense.gov/Newsroom/Releases/Release/Article/2195239/dod-statement-on-open-skies-treaty-withdrawal/

State Department Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation

https://www.state.gov/bureaus-offices/under-secretary-for-arms-control-and-international-security-affairs/bureau-of-international-security-and-nonproliferation/

Women in Intelligence Law Webinar August 12

https://americanbar.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_vnNdrgeUR8mb36DV3L5f8A

Bonnie Jenkins is the Founder and Chair of Women of Color Advancing Peace and Security

https://www.brookings.edu/experts/bonnie-jenkins/

This episode references:

Full "Hacking Democracy: Elections and Beyond" recording, sign in required

https://beacon360.content.online/xbcs/S1251/catalog/resources.xhtml?pSref=2020ANNW1OLC

Supplemental reading materials for "Hacking Democracy: Elections and Beyond"

https://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/administrative/law_national_security/hacking-democracy-toc.pdf

This episode references:

UN Security Council Resolution 1325, Adopted October 31, 2000https://documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N00/720/18/PDF/N0072018.pdf?OpenElement

Women, Peace, and Security Act of 2017https://www.congress.gov/115/plaws/publ68/PLAW-115publ68.pdf

United States Strategy on Women, Peace, and Securityhttps://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/WPS-Strategy-FINAL-PDF-6.11.19.pdf

Implementation of the Strategy from the Department of Statehttps://www.state.gov/the-department-of-states-plan-to-implement-the-u-s-strategy-on-women-peace-and-security/

Implementation of the Strategy from USAID

https://www.usaid.gov/women-peace-and-security/

Implementation of the Strategy from the Department of Homeland Security

https://www.dhs.gov/publication/dhs-implementation-plan-us-strategy-women-peace-and-security

Implementation of the Strategy from the Department of Defense

https://media.defense.gov/2020/Jun/11/2002314428/-1/-1/1/WOMEN_PEACE_SECURITY_STRATEGIC_FRAMEWORK_IMPLEMENTATION_PLAN.PDF

Congressional Hearing on Empowering Women and Girls and Promoting International Securityhttps://oversight.house.gov/legislation/hearings/empowering-women-and-girls-and-promoting-international-security-0

Understanding Gender Equality in Foreign Policy: What the United States Can Do

https://www.cfr.org/report/understanding-gender-equality-foreign-policy

Jamille Bigio "UN peacekeeping recognizes that women are key to lasting peace amid COVID-19" The Hill, June 1, 2020https://thehill.com/opinion/international/500518-un-peacekeeping-recognizes-that-women-are-key-to-lasting-peace-amid

Interactive: Women's Participation in the Peace Processhttps://www.cfr.org/womens-participation-in-peace-processes/

Council on Foreign Relations Women and Foreign Policy Programhttps://www.cfr.org/programs/women-and-foreign-policy-program

Jamille Bigio is a Senior Fellow for Women and Foreign Policy and the Council on Foreign Relationshttps://www.cfr.org/expert/jamille-bigio

This episode references:

The Rome Statute

https://www.icc-cpi.int/resource-library/documents/rs-eng.pdf

Executive Order on Blocking Property Of Certain Persons Associated With The International Criminal Court

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-blocking-property-certain-persons-associated-international-criminal-court/

NSLT Episode "Will the Dollar be Disarmed? with Brian Egan." September 19, 2019

https://www.americanbar.org/groups/law_national_security/nslt/20190919-will-the-dollar-be-disarmed/

International Emergency Economic Powers Act 50 USC 1701

https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/Documents/ieepa.pdf

Preliminary ICC Investigation into alleged war crimes in Afghanistan

https://www.icc-cpi.int/afghanistan

National Emergencies Act

https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/prelim@title50/chapter34&edition=prelim

ABA President Judy Perry Martinez statement Re: U.S. sanctions of International Criminal Court personnel

https://www.americanbar.org/news/abanews/aba-news-archives/2020/06/aba-president-judy-perry-martinez-statement-re--u-s--sanctions-o/

Washington Post "Lawyers urge Trump to rescind sanctions, travel bans for International Criminal Court" June 29, 2020

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/lawyers-urge-trump-to-rescind-sanctions-and-travel-bans-for-international-criminal-court/2020/06/29/0ef0c476-ba15-11ea-86d5-3b9b3863273b_story.html

Philadelphia Bar Association Resolution Supporting Independence of International Criminal Court

http://www.philadelphiabar.org/page/ResJune20_2?appNum=2

Just Security "The Self Defeating Executive Order Against the International Criminal Court." June 12, 2020

https://www.justsecurity.org/70742/the-self-defeating-executive-order-against-the-international-criminal-court/

Brian Egan is a Partner at Steptoe & Johnson

https://www.steptoe.com/en/lawyers/brian-egan.html

This episode references:

Social Media and National Security Part II with Peter Singer and Rachel Levinson-Waldman

https://www.americanbar.org/groups/law_national_security/nslt/20190131-social-media-and-national-security-part2/

Executive Order on Preventing Online Censorship

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-preventing-online-censorship/

Section 230 — Nurturing Innovation or Fostering Unaccountability? Key Takeaways and Discussions

https://www.justice.gov/file/1286331/download

"The Justice Department’s Thoughtful Proposals for Section 230 Reform" Lawfare, June 19, 2020.

https://www.lawfareblog.com/justice-departments-thoughtful-proposals-section-230-reform

"How hoax information on social media about COVID-19 might be worsening the pandemic." LSE US Centre, April 24, 2020

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/2020/04/24/how-hoax-information-on-social-media-about-covid-19-might-be-worsening-the-pandemic/

"Militias flocked to Gettysburg to foil a supposed antifa flag burning, an apparent hoax created on social media" Washington Post, July 4, 2020

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/hundreds-of-armed-men-went-to-gettysburg-to-defend-it-from-a-phantom-antifa-flag-burner-created-on-social-media/2020/07/04/206ee4da-bb05-11ea-86d5-3b9b3863273b_story.html

Panel IX – Social Media: 2020 at the 28th Annual Review of the Field of National Security Law Conference

https://bcove.video/2DJ50Vj 

LikeWar by Peter Singer

https://www.amazon.com/LikeWar-Weaponization-P-W-Singer/dp/1328695743 

Trump-Russia Investigations: A Guide by Rachel Levinson-Waldman

https://www.brennancenter.org/sites/default/files/publications/Trump-Russia%20Investigations_0.pdf 

The Islamophobic Administration by Rachel Levinson-Waldman

https://www.brennancenter.org/sites/default/files/publications/BCJ_Islamophobic_Administration.pdf

Report on foreign influence in the 2016 election to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence “The Tactics and Tropes of the Internet Research Agency”

https://www.newknowledge.com/disinforeport 

Packingham v. North Carolina (2017)

https://www.oyez.org/cases/2016/15-1194 

Manhattan Community Access Corp v Halleck (2019) including the amici curiae briefs

https://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/manhattan-community-access-corp-v-halleck/ 

Peter Singer is Strategist and Senior Fellow at New America

https://www.newamerica.org/our-people/peter-warren-singer/ 

Rachel Levinson-Waldman is Senior Counsel at the Brennan Center’s Liberty and National Security Program

https://www.brennancenter.org/expert/rachel-levinson-waldman