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Strauss Center Director Adam Klein has been appointed to the congressional FISA Reform Commission by U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune. Klein brings to the Commission his experience as former Chairman of the United States Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, which oversees the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (FISA) and other national security authorities. The Commission is tasked by statute with proposing ongoing reforms to FISA, the core legal authority for much U.S. intelligence collection. Read more here.

The Strauss Center for International Security and Law is launching a new program to help University of Texas law students build careers in the federal government and Washington, DC. The Program on Federal Government and Washington, DC Lawyering, led by Professor Brian Pérez-Daple, will give students the mentorship, connections, and practical guidance they need to pursue opportunities with federal agencies, the U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Attorneys’ Offices, Congress, and leading Washington, DC law firms. For more information, view the press release.

The Strauss Center for International Security and Law congratulates Strauss Center Senior Fellow Brock Dahl on his nomination to be Legal Adviser of the Department of State. Brock is one of the nation’s foremost national security lawyers.

Strauss Center National Security Law Fellow Megan Ezekannagha published an article with Lieber Institute at West Point’s Articles of War on “Fighting at Machine Speed: AI and U.S. Army Counterfire Under the Law of War.” Part I is available here and Part II is available here. “Integrating AI into counterfire offers the Army a credible way to compress the sensor-to-shooter cycle against enemy artillery without departing from existing law of war requirements. Newly fielded and emerging AI systems do not change what the law demands; the guiding principles and governing rules remain intact.” Ezekannagha continues, “Properly employed, these systems can strengthen compliance by improving target validation, reducing uncertainty, and accelerating coordination in the precise places where modern counterfire tends to break down.”