TheInstitute for Law, Science and Global Security[1] in the Department of Government atGeorgetown University was established to promote teaching and research in the area of intersection betweeninternational law andinternational relations. The Institute sponsors undergraduate and graduate courses and runs a Master's Program in International Law and Global Security.[2] The Institute seeks to inform the public policy debate about the nature, role and importance of international law as it connected to issues of science and global security. To this end, it sponsors a series of specific programs including the Program on Non-Proliferation Law and Policy,[3] which is jointly run with the James Martin Center of theMonterey Institute of International Studies.
Most recently, the Institute has begun a special initiative in the area of cyber security.[4][5] Among the participants in this initiative have been former Director of theCentral Intelligence AgencyGeneral Michael Hayden,[6] Siobhan Gorman, national security correspondent ofThe Wall Street Journal, andSuzanne Spaulding, former General Counsel for theSenate Select Committee on Intelligence. Since its creation, the Institute has also sponsored events with a variety of other speakers, includingPaul D. Clement, formerSolicitor General of the United States,Bill Richardson, the Governor of New Mexico,Neal Katyal, Deputy Solicitor General of the United States and legal counsel to former detaineeSalim Hamdan, andDavid H. Remes, a former partner atCovington & Burling and currently representing detainees in theGuantanamo Bay detention camps.
The Institute was founded by ProfessorsChristopher C. Joyner andAnthony Clark Arend, and was initially calledThe Institute for International Law and Politics. It is currently directed by Professor Joyner, and ProfessorCatherine Lotrionte serves as the Associate Director of the Institute.Amit Yoran, former Chief of the National Cyber Security Division at theDepartment of Homeland Security and Phillip A. Karber serve on the Board of Advisers of the Institute. From 2007 to 2009, Brendan P. Geary—previously an Associate Attorney at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP and currently an Attorney in the Department of Justice's National Security Division—served as the Institute's William V. O'Brien Fellow.
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