PROFESSOR GAUDION DISCUSSES NEED TO RETHINK OVERSIGHT FOR CYBER OPERATIONS AT THE BELMONT LAW REVIEW SYMPOSIUM
January 2021 — Professor Amy Gaudion spoke at the 2021 Belmont Law Review Symposium about the legal framework governing the U.S. government’s use of cyber space operations. The symposium, Contemporary Issues in Administrative Law, was hosted virtually by the Belmont University College of Law on January 15, 2021.
Professor Gaudion’s presentation described the recent expansion of the U.S. government’s cyber capabilities and examined gaps in the current reporting framework. Her presentation proposed a rethinking of the usual oversight mechanisms, including a more robust role for the office of inspector general, to effectively balance the need for these capabilities with appropriate limits on their use.
Professor Amy Gaudion is the associate dean for academic affairs and professor of lawyering skills at Penn State Dickinson Law. Her research and teaching interests focus on cybersecurity, national security law, and civilian-military relations. Her recent scholarship includes The Role of Satellites and Smart Devices: Data Surprises and Security, Privacy, and Regulatory Challenges, 123 Penn St. L. Rev. 591 (2019) (co-authored with Anne Toomey McKenna and Jenni L. Evans), as well as Defending Your Country . . . and Gender – Legal Challenges and Opportunities Confronting Women in the Military, a chapter in Women, Law and Culture: Conformity, Contradiction and Conflict (Jocelynne A. Scutt ed., 2016) (Palgrave Macmillan). Professor Gaudion leads the Law School’s national security and cybersecurity programs, and she established an annual cyberspace exercise in collaboration with the U.S. Army War College.