INSCT
The Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism (INSCT) is dedicated to interdisciplinary and innovative research, teaching, and public service. Drawing upon the expertise of affiliated faculty, INSCT’s work addresses key national and international challenges pertaining to security, terrorism and counterterrorism, post-conflict reconstruction, and community resilience. INSCT’s faculty and research fellows strive to deliver cutting-edge scholarship and a first-class educational experience for students and professionals.
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The Standing Committee on Law and National Security conducts studies, sponsors programs and conferences and coordinates working groups on law and national security-related issues, including the legal responses to terrorism, the restructuring of the intelligence community and its role in law enforcement, and operational international law in the conduct of the military. The Standing Committee is part of the ABA’s Division for Public Services, an ABA department dedicated to applying the knowledge and experience of the legal profession to promotion of the public good.
Link to the Standing Committee on Law and National Security website
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“Imagine a group of experts and statesman meeting off the record, temporarily suspending their desire to predict, blog, or be on television, and spending a day or two intensely debating alternative scenarios that might emerge from a U.S. decision to bomb or not bomb Iran. . . . The benefits of exercises where pundits and policymakers acknowledge that perfect intelligence is unattainable and where the advantages of both admitting and forgiving honest mistakes about an unknowable, uncertain future are recognized, would be enormous.
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