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Strauss Center Launches Newest Project on Surveillance and the Rule of Law

The Strauss Center is pleased to announce our project “Safe and Free: National Security Surveillance and the Rule of Law Across Democratic States” which aims to foster genuine comparative study on surveillance laws and oversight structures. Safe and Free contributors include think-tankers, academics, former government officials, and journalists. Many have worked in, advised, or overseen…

Suri and Greitens Discuss Classification and Democracy

January 4, 2024 |

Professor Jeremi Suri, Mack Brown Distinguished Chair for Leadership in Global Affairs and Distinguished Scholar at the Strauss Center for International Security and Law, and Sheena Greitens, Director of the Asia Policy Program, joined other scholars to discuss classification and scholarship on the “Horns of a Dilemma” podcast. Horns of a Dilemna is a co-sponsored…

Call for Applications: 2024-25 Brumley Next Generation Graduate Fellows and Undergraduate Scholars

January 3, 2024 |

The Strauss Center is pleased to announce the call for applications for the 2024-25 Brumley Next Generation Graduate Fellows and Undergraduate Scholars programs. These unique opportunities provide research training, mentorships, and networking to exceptional students from varied disciplines across the Forty Acres. For Graduate Students: The Brumley Next Generation Fellows Program The mission of the…

Moriba Jah Discusses the Space Industry’s Climate Impact

Moriba Jah, lead for the Space Security, Safety, and Sustainability Program at the Strauss Center for International Security and Law, recently commented in Payload, “The Space Industry’s Climate Impact: Part 1.” The growing frequency of rocket launches and satellite reentries in the space industry is raising environmental concerns regarding emissions and pollutants, prompting calls for…

Chinmayi Sharma Discusses AI Safety and its Role in Reconciling Agile Development

Chinmayi Sharma, Cybersecurity and Technology Fellow at the Strauss Center, recently coauthored an article in Tech Policy Press entitled, “Reconciling Agile Development With AI Safety” which focused on how implementing responsible artificial intelligence (AI) development faces a challenge in reconciling government frameworks’ principles with the fast-paced Agile processes of tech companies. Per Sharma, “For AI…

Adam Klein Examines National-Security Surveillance and Safeguards in Lawfare

Adam Klein, Director of the Strauss Center for International Security and Law, recently wrote an article on Lawfare, “Safe and Free: National-Security Surveillance and Safeguards Across Rule-of-Law States.” The decade since Edward Snowden’s NSA leaks has been characterized by global debates on intelligence agencies respecting civil liberties and privacy, with major reforms enacted in rule-of-law…

Strauss Center Brumley Fellow Bailey Crane Awarded Westin Scholar Award

The Strauss Center for International Security and Law in collaboration with the Center for Identity at the University of Texas at Austin are excited to announce that Bailey Crane has been selected as the university’s International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) Westin Scholar Award recipient for the 2023-2024 award round. Bailey Crane is a second-year graduate student,…

Professor Kuperman Examines U.S. Military Technology

December 21, 2023 |

Alan Kuperman, Strauss Distinguished Scholar and coordinator of the Nuclear Proliferation Prevention Project, appeared in News Network’s article “US research on bomb-grade uranium alternative in Navy vessels advances” regarding technological advancements in the U.S. military to lower uranium and nuclear proliferation risks. “The program is vital to preventing the spread of nuclear weapons, is making…

Sharma Writes on Artificial Intelligence

Chinmayi Sharma, Cybersecurity and Technology Fellow at the Strauss Center for International Security and Law, wrote an article in Lawfare about how organizations should use Artificial Intelligence responsibly. The article, entitled “Setting a Higher Bar: Professionalizing AI Engineering,” outlines opportunities and threats of growing artificial intelligence usage. “A big year for artificial intelligence (AI) is…

Klein Publishes Lawfare Article on Strauss’ New Surveillance Paper Series

Strauss Center Director Adam Klein recently published an article in Lawfare on “Safe and Free: National-Security Surveillance and Safeguards Across Rule-of-Law States.” This article offers a brief overview of the new project launched by the Strauss Center called “Safe and Free: National Security Surveillance and the Rule of Law Across Democratic States.” This paper series…

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