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Strauss Deputy Director Klein Discusses the Latest FISA Transparency Data 

Adam Klein, the Strauss Center’s Deputy Director, appeared on the Lawfare Podcast to discuss the decline in FISA applications and other data in the intelligence community’s latest transparency report. Listen to the full interview here.

UT Law Professor Discusses Humanitarian Law, Enforcement, and the War in Ukraine

Strauss Center Distinguished Scholar and UT Law Professor Derek Jinks recently gave a talk on the War on the Rocks podcast regarding the development of Humanitarian Law from World War II to the current conflict in Ukraine. War on the Rocks is a podcast by the Texas National Security Review, which is co-sponsored by the…

Jah Named MLK Visiting Professor at MIT

Dr. Moriba Jah, Associate Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at UT Austin and the lead of the Strauss Center’s Space Security, Safety, and Sustainability Program, has been named an MLK Visiting Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This program honors the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by increasing the…

Wendy Nather Discusses Protections for Remote Workers from Cyberattacks

May 26, 2022 |

Wendy Nather, a Senior Cybersecurity Fellow at the Strauss Center, recently participated in a panel hosted by Business Insider on workplace security during the work from home era. Titled “Cybersecurity Trends: Prepare for a More Secure Future,” the panel addressed the challenges of employees working remotely while many corporate policies were not ready to handle it. Given…

Klein and Inboden Analyze Ukrainian War and Argue for Securing of U.S.’ Semiconductor Supply Chain

May 24, 2022 |

Deputy Director of the Strauss Center, Adam Klein, published an op-ed on The Hill with Clements Center Executive Director Will Inboden discussing the lessons to be learned in the invasion of Ukraine. Most urgently, they argue we need to secure our own semiconductor supply train for national defense. To read more, please see the op-ed…

Schmitt Analyzes the Implications of the U.S. Providing Intelligence to Ukraine 

May 19, 2022 |

Professor Michael Schmitt recently authored an article titled “Ukraine Symposium – Are We at War?” Given the reports of the U.S. and several other NATO nations providing intelligence to Ukraine, Professor Schmitt addresses the question of when does intelligence sharing trigger an international armed conflict (IAC) between the State providing it and the State against which…

Strauss Director Appointed Dean of UT’s School of Law

May 11, 2022 |

The Strauss Center is so proud to announce that our Director, Bobby Chesney, has been appointed as the next Dean of UT’s School of Law. Professor Chesney also currently holds the James A. Baker III Chair in the Rule of Law and World Affairs and has served as the school’s Associate Dean for Academic Affairs…

Jah Publishes Paper on Space Environmentalism

Dr. Moriba Jah, Associate Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at UT Austin and the lead of the Strauss Center’s Space Security, Safety, and Sustainability Program, was a contributor to an academic paper titled “The case for space environmentalism” that was published at Nature Astronomy. The paper began by describing the increase of man-made…

May 2022 CAMPI Metering Report Published

May 2, 2022 |

The Strauss Center’s Central America and Mexico Policy Initiative (CAMPI), led by CAMPI Director Stephanie Leutert and CAMPI Fellow Caitlyn Yates, have released the quarterly Metering Update for May 2022. This report provides an update on waitlists, asylum seekers, and migrant shelters along the U.S.-Mexico border. It documents 27,135 individuals on waitlists in eight Mexican border cities. This is an approximately…

Prof. Inboden Explains What Trans-Siberian Pipeline Teaches us About Competing with China

April 28, 2022 |

Strauss Center Distinguished Scholar and Director of the Clements Center, Dr. Will Inboden, and UT alumnus Nick Romanow, published a commentary on War on the Rocks on the lessons learned from the Trans-Siberian Pipeline in the early 1980s under the Reagan Administration. In examining the relationship between China and the U.S. over the years, they discuss…

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