Professor Amy Gaudion serves as co-organizer of Early Works in National Security Law Workshop

PROFESSOR AMY GAUDION SERVES AS CO-ORGANIZER OF EARLY WORKS IN NATIONAL SECURITY LAW WORKSHOP

May 2024 — In her role as co-chair of the AALS Section on National Security Law, Professor Amy C. Gaudion helped to organize the Early Works in National Security Law Workshop which was held in April 26, 2024. Professor Gaudion worked with Professor Brenner Fissell of Villanova University’s Charles Widger School of Law and Professor Rachel VanLandingham of Southwestern Law School to put together this inaugural program. One of the Section’s objectives for the year is to broaden the reach of the Section to welcome and support new members, particularly from groups that have been historically underrepresented in the field of national security law. This objective is reflected in a series of programs to be held during the year leading up to the 2025 Annual Meeting, including this early works-in-progress workshop for emerging and established scholars in the fields of national security law and related disciplines. The Early Works program was designed to provide an informal structure and the opportunity for constructive and supportive feedback on projects in the early iteration and origination stages.

The program featured the following authors and their works-in-progress, and discussants:

• Stephen Cody, Autocratic Legalism at Sea (discussant: Milena Sterio)
• Cody Corliss, Does the Crime of Terror Matter? (discussant: Rachel VanLandingham)
• Nahal Kazemi, Starving the Beast: A New Vetting Model to Prevent Corruption in Security Sector Assistance (discussant: Kibrom Teweldebirhan)
• Daniel Maurer, The Generals’ Constitution: Civil Rights, Civilian Control, and a National Security Commitment “Most Severely Tested” (discussant: Brenner Fissell)
• Alex Sinha, Speaking Security Into Being: Governmental Speech Acts and National Security (discussant: Asaf Lubin)

Discussants briefly outlined the author’s work and provided constructive feedback, and then led discussion among all attendees and with the author. The Section hopes to use this inaugural program as a model to improve upon and build similar programs in the future.

Amy C. Gaudion is an associate professor of law at Penn State Dickinson Law as well as the founder of Dickinson Law’s annual cyberspace simulation with the U.S. Army War College. Her scholarship focuses on national security law, cyberspace, and civilian-military relations, and she leads Dickinson Law’s national security and cyberspace programs.