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Standing Committee on Law and National Security

 

 

19th Annual Review of the Field of National Security Law

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

 

Thursday, November 12  
7:30 a.m. Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:15 a.m.

Welcome
Harvey Rishikof
Chair
ABA Standing Committee on Law and National Security

Opening Remarks
Carolyn B. Lamm
President
American Bar Association

8:30 - 10:30 a.m.

Panel I – Executive Update on Developments in National Security Law
Moderator
Harvey Rishikof

Discussants   
The Honorable Robert Litt
General Counsel
Office of the Director of National Intelligence

The Honorable Stephen W. Preston
General Counsel
Central Intelligence Agency

The Honorable David Kris
Assistant Attorney General for National Security
U.S. Department of Justice

The Honorable Ivan Fong
General Counsel
U.S. Department of Homeland Security

The Honorable Jeh Johnson
General Counsel
U.S. Department of Defense

10:30 a.m. Break
10:45a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Panel II – Legislative Update on Developments in National Security Law
Moderator 
Suzanne Spaulding
Principla, Bingham Consulting Group
Of Counsel, Bingham McCutchen
LLP

Discussants     
Chris Donesa
Republican Chief Counsel
House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence

Perry Apelbaum
Staff Director and Chief Counsel
House Committee on the Judiciary

Brandon Milhorn
Republican Staff Director and Chief Counsel
Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee

Rick DeBobes*
Staff Director
Senate Committee on Armed Services

12:30 p.m.

Keynote Address
The Honorable James B. Steinberg
Deputy Secretary of State

1:00 2:15 p.m. Luncheon
2:30 - 4:15 p.m.

Panel III – Emerging Issues in National Security Law: Narco-Violence Along the Border
Moderator 
Robert Chesney

Professor of Law
University of Texas

Discussants     
Eric L. Olson
Senior Advisor, Security Initiative
Mexico Institute, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

Luz Nagle
Professor of Law
Stetson University School of Law

Tracey A. Bardof
Special Advisor to the Assistant Secretary
Immigration and Customs Enforcement
U.S. Department of Homeland Security

Orde F. Kittrie
Professor of Law
Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law
Arizona State University

5:30 p.m. Reception
6:00 p.m. Dinner - Penn Quarter Room
Keynote Address: The State of National Security
Jamie S. Gorelick

Parnter, WilmerHale
Friday, November 13
8:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast

Welcome and Opening Remarks
John Norton Moore

Director, Center for National Security Law
Professor, University of Virginia School of Law

8:30 - 10:15 a.m.

Panel IV – Modern Piracy: Legal and Policy Options
Moderator
Jane Dalton
(RDML, USN ret.)
Professorial Lecturer, George Washington University
Elliott School of International Affairs

Discussants
Rear Admiral William D. Baumgartner, USCG
The Judge Advocate General and Chief Counsel
U.S. Coast Guard

CDR James Kraska, USN JAG
Professor of International Law
U.S. Naval War College

Gordan Van Hook
Senior Director
Innovation and Concept Development
Maersk Line, Ltd.

Martin Murphy
Senior Fellow
Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments
Visiting Fellow
Corbett Centre for Maritime Policy Studies at King’s College, London

John Norton Moore
Director, Center for National Security Law
University of Virginia School of Law

10:15 a.m. Break
10:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.

Panel V – Revised Military Commissions:  Lingering Questions
Moderator
Scott L. Silliman

Professor of the Practice and Law
Executive Director, Center on Law, Ethics and National Security
Duke University Law School

Discussants
Deborah Pearlstein
Visiting Scholar
Program in Law and Public Affairs
Princeton University

Jonathan Hafetz
Attorney, National Security Project
American Civil Liberties Union

Colonel Mary V. Perry, USAF
Director, Operations and International Law Division
Office of the Judge Advocate General
U.S. Air Force

Robin Jacobsohn
Deputy General Counsel
Office of the General Counsel
U.S. Department of Defense

12:15 a.m. Break
12:30 - 2:15 p.m.

Keynote Address
The Honorable Janet Napolitano
Secretary
U.S. Department of Homeland Security

2:30 - 4:15 p.m.

Panel VI – Cyber Security and Cyber Warfare
Moderator
Spike Bowman
Distinguished Fellow
Center for National Security Law
University of Virginia School of Law

Discussants
Bradford Bleier
Supervisory Special Agent
Cyber Division
Federal Bureau of Investigation

Philip Reitinger
Deputy Undersecretary of National Protection and
Programs Directorate
U.S. Department of Homeland Security 

Chris Painter
Acting Senior Director for Cybersecurity  
National Security Council

Kim Taipale
Founder and Executive Director
Center for Advanced Studies in Science and Technology Policy

4:14 - 5:30 p.m.

Panel VII – Ethics Challenges for National Security Lawyers In and Out of Government
Moderator 
Al Harvey

Chair, Advisory Committee
Standing Committee on Law and National Security

Discussants
Thomas D. Morgan
Oppenheim Professor of Antitrust and Trade Regulation Law, George Washington School of Law

The Honorable James E. Baker
Judge
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces

Stewart A. Baker
Partner
Steptoe & Johnson

This program will focus on ethics problems developing in two areas of practice, each involving client confidentiality and loyalty.  First, a panel of experts will discuss the evolving issues which arise when there are breaches in the law firm's, law department's, or agency's computer system.  What obligations are created by Model Rule of Professional Conduct 1.6, Confidentiality of Information, when the security of the computer system has or may have been breached by persons known or unknown.  Second, the panel will discuss the procedure required by Model Rule of Professional Conduct 1.13, Organization as Client, when the lawyer for a government agency or a lawyer representing a corporation believes that the organization has acted, or is about to act, contrary to law or regulation which could result in harm to national security or public safety.  

* Invited

 

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