National security legal professionals, technology experts, professors and representatives from the National Security Institute, Center on Democracy and Technology, Heritage Foundation and the Council on Foreign Relations, will meet at the American Bar Association’s 35th Annual Review of the Field of National Security Law Conference, Nov. 13-14, in Washington, D.C. The theme is, "Technology, National Security and the Law: Keeping Pace with Innovation.”
On Thursday, Nov. 13, David Ignatius, Washington Post columnist, will give the keynote address at 12:45 p.m. on “Technology, Intelligence and a World in Turmoil.” There will be a fireside chat at 6 p.m. EST with Sandra Joyce, vice president, Google Threat Intelligence Group, Google Cloud. She will speak on “The Future of Cybersecurity.”
ABA President Michelle Behnke will give welcome remarks on Friday, Nov. 14, at 8:45 a.m. The keynote address will be delivered at 1 p.m. by Christian Brose, president and chief strategy officer, Anduril Industries on “Arms, AI and the Future of Defense.”
This year’s conference is dedicated to the memory of Judge William H. Webster (1924-2025), former director of the FBI and the Central Intelligence Agency and counselor to the ABA Standing Committee on Law and National Security (1991-2025). A tribute in Webster’s honor will be led by Harvey Rishikof, counselor, ABA Standing Committee on Law and National Security, on Friday at 3 p.m. EST.
Sponsored by the ABA Standing Committee on Law and National Security, conference highlights include:
• “Economic Statecraft: Industrial Policy as a Strategic Weapon”
• “Empowering Rapid Innovation in National Security: Venture Capital Startups and the Defense and Intelligence Communities”
• “National Security Law in Private Practice”
• “The Ethical Challenges of the National Security Lawyer in Public Ethics and Private Practice — A Roundtable Discussion”
• “The Rise of Autonomous Vehicles”
• “The AI Arms Race and National Security Law”
• “Technology, Over the Horizon Operations and the Power to Make War”
• “Spies and Shields: Current Developments in Surveillance, Encryption and Privacy”
To register for the conference, visit www.americanbar.org/groups/law_national_security/?login.
On Thursday, Nov. 13, David Ignatius, Washington Post columnist, will give the keynote address at 12:45 p.m. on “Technology, Intelligence and a World in Turmoil.” There will be a fireside chat at 6 p.m. EST with Sandra Joyce, vice president, Google Threat Intelligence Group, Google Cloud. She will speak on “The Future of Cybersecurity.”
ABA President Michelle Behnke will give welcome remarks on Friday, Nov. 14, at 8:45 a.m. The keynote address will be delivered at 1 p.m. by Christian Brose, president and chief strategy officer, Anduril Industries on “Arms, AI and the Future of Defense.”
This year’s conference is dedicated to the memory of Judge William H. Webster (1924-2025), former director of the FBI and the Central Intelligence Agency and counselor to the ABA Standing Committee on Law and National Security (1991-2025). A tribute in Webster’s honor will be led by Harvey Rishikof, counselor, ABA Standing Committee on Law and National Security, on Friday at 3 p.m. EST.
Sponsored by the ABA Standing Committee on Law and National Security, conference highlights include:
• “Economic Statecraft: Industrial Policy as a Strategic Weapon”
• “Empowering Rapid Innovation in National Security: Venture Capital Startups and the Defense and Intelligence Communities”
• “National Security Law in Private Practice”
• “The Ethical Challenges of the National Security Lawyer in Public Ethics and Private Practice — A Roundtable Discussion”
• “The Rise of Autonomous Vehicles”
• “The AI Arms Race and National Security Law”
• “Technology, Over the Horizon Operations and the Power to Make War”
• “Spies and Shields: Current Developments in Surveillance, Encryption and Privacy”
To register for the conference, visit www.americanbar.org/groups/law_national_security/?login.
