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David Golove on the Law of War

While the Center on Law and Security was formed in reaction to 9/11, David Golove takes a much longer view. In a paper in-progress, “The Case...

Stephen Holmes on the Rule of Law

A distinguished political theorist, Stephen Holmes, Walter E. Meyer Professor of Law, has spent decades thinking about the paradoxes of democracy and liberalism. In his 1995...

Richard Pildes on Rights in Times of Crisis

In his Law and Security scholarship, Richard Pildes, Sudler Family Professor of Constitutional Law, searches for alternatives to constitutional extremes. Consider his 2004 article, “Between Civil...

Samuel Rascoff on Regulating Terrorism

In the wake of 9/11, New York City built an unprecedented counterterrorism force of its own: 1,000 committed officers, an Intelligence Bureau, and 10 officers dispatched...

Margaret Satterthwaite on Extraordinary Rendition

With the inauguration of Barack Obama, Associate Professor of Clinical Law Margaret Satterthwaite held hope that her influential scholarship and activism against extraordinary rendition would cease...

Stephen Schulhofer on Law Enforcement

After 9/11, Stephen Schulhofer, Robert B. McKay Professor of Law, wondered how rules for international electronic surveillance differed from those governing domestic investigations and how the...

Policy Incubator: Student work in Law and Security

For some NYU Law students, the post-9/11 interest in national security has aligned perfectly with their passions. Take Daniel Freifeld ’08. A seasoned globetrotter who speaks...

The “Doyenne of Counterterrorism”

One part intellectual salon for counterterrorism issues and one part clearinghouse for hard-to-procure documents and analysis, the Center on Law and Security arose from the unique...

A Plan to Make the World Safer: Ronald Noble

In 2000, Ronald Noble took a leave of absence from the NYU School of Law to assume the leadership of INTERPOL. As secretary general of an...

Beyond the Academy: The fellows of the Center on Law and Security

The Center on Law and Security funds some of the research of an impressive roster of journalists, scholars, and practitioners. Peter Bergen Credentials: Fellow, New America...

Feats in Two Koreas

To fully understand China, Cohen believes it is necessary to study neighboring countries that share China’s Confucian-Buddhist heritage. So only months after visiting China for the...

A Force in Taiwan

Nowhere has Cohen’s influence been felt more acutely than in Taiwan. Taiwan’s current president, Ma Ying-jeou (LL.M. ’76), and the country’s former vice president Annette Lu...