SLS Hosts Symposium on Post-9/11 Law of Intelligence

SLS Hosts Symposium on Post-9/11 Law of Intelligence

Domestic spying took center stage last February at the law school’s first symposium on post- 9/11 intelligence, “Spies, Secrets and Security: The New Law of Intelligence,” jointly hosted by the Stanford Law & Policy Review, the Center for Internet and Society, and the Stanford National Security Law Society. Discussion at the symposium, moderated by Professor Pamela S. Karlan, Kenneth and Harle Montgomery Professor of Public Interest Law, centered on statutory and constitutional issues raised by domestic eavesdropping and surveillance as authorized by the executive branch. The event brought together a panel of expert voices on domestic spying including Oregon senator and member of the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Ron Wyden (BA ’71); Kris Kobach, law professor at University of Missouri Kansas City School of Law and former personal counsel to Attorney General John Ashcroft; and Stanford Law School Senior Lecturer Alan B. Morrison.