The Week That Will Be

Event Announcements

Monday, May 9, 2022 at 8:00 p.m. ET: The Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University will host an event to examine the new landscape of economic security and the U.S.-Japan alliance. The event will feature a panel discussion on what roles the U.S.-Japan alliance should play in building resilient economic frameworks that would mitigate the economic damages of geopolitical disruptions. Panelists include: Kazuto Suzuki, professor of science and technology policy at the Graduate School of Public Policy at the University of Tokyo, Japan; Mireya Solísm, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution; and Kiyoteru Tsutsui, senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. 

Tuesday, May 10, 2022 at 10:00 a.m. ET: The Brookings Institution will host an event entitled American governance: The way forward. The event will feature discussion about a new book by Brookings Senior Fellow Norman Eisen entitled “Overcoming Trumpery: How to Restore Ethics, Rule of Law, and Democracy.” The event will feature opening remarks by Sen. Raphael Warnock and two panel discussions with Eisen and seven of his co-authors. 

Tuesday, May 10, 2022 at 4:00 p.m. ET:  The Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies will host an event to review current challenges and tensions in Israel’s national security. Maj. Gen. (ret.) Amos Yaldin, senior fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center, will discuss key challenges facing Israel in the near term—such as the Iranian Nuclear Program and Iranian establishment in Syria—and will present the main dilemmas in formulating policy in the face of each challenge. 

Wednesday, May 11, 2022 at 10:00 a.m. ET: The House Science, Space and Technology Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight and Subcommittee on Research and Technology will hold a hearing on open-source software cybersecurity. The subcommittees will hear testimony from Brian Behlendorf, general manager at Open Source Security Foundation; and Andrew Lohn, senior fellow at the Center for Security and Emerging Technology at Georgetown University. 

Wednesday, May 11, 2022 at 2:00 p.m. ET: The House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Europe, Energy, the Environment and Cyber will hold a hearing on accountability and justice for war crimes committed in Ukraine by the Russian Federation. The subcommittee will hear testimony from Michael R. Carpenter, permanent representative of the United States of America to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. 

Thursday, May 12, 2022 at 10:00 a.m. ET: The House Foreign Affairs Committee will hold a hearing on forest conservation in the fight against climate change. The committee will hear testimony Rep. Steny Hoyer; M. Sanjayan, chief executive office of Conservation International; and Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, president of the Association for Indigenous Women and Peoples of Chad. 

Thursday, May 12, 2022 at 2:00 p.m. ET: The House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific, Central Asia and Nonproliferation will hold a hearing on the way forward on U.S. North Korea policy. The subcommittee will hear testimony from John S. Park, director of the Korea Project at the Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs; and Sue Mi Terry, director of the Asia Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. 

Friday, May 13, 2022 at 9:00 a.m. ET: The House Financial Services Committee Task Force on Artificial Intelligence will hold a hearing on using artificial intelligence for effective regtech. 

Employment Announcements (More details on the Job Board)

Lawfare Fellowship, Emerging Tech Policy Leaders Program

Associate Editor, Lawfare

Postdoc Research Position in Cybersecurity Policy, Tufts University

Program Assistant, National Security Institute, Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University

Program Associate, National Security Institute, Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University

Visiting Associate Professor of Law and National Security, Cybersecurity, and Foreign Relations 

Operations Manager, Reiss Center on Law and Security

Summer Research Assistant, National Security Institute

Call for Papers, American Journal of International Law

Call for Papers, Cybersecurity Law and Policy Scholars Conference 2022

Special Assistant to PILPG President, The Public International Law & Policy Group

Fellow, Finance, Insurance and Trade Policy, R Street Institute

Deputy Director, Security & Surveillance Project, Center for Democracy and Technology

Senior Associate, Center on Privacy & Technology at Georgetown Law

Program Coordinator, Asia Program, The German Marshall Fund 

External Affairs Officer, Digital Innovation Democracy Initiative, The German Marshall Fund

Request for Resumes, Department of Defense Office of the General Counsel