National Security Law Journal

NSLJ will be hosting its final information session tomorrow at noon. Please consider stopping by if you couldn't make the previous sessions and are curious about our journal. Chick-fil-A will be provided!

CALLING ALL 1LS, 2LS, and 3ES:

NSLJ would like to invite you to attend our information session tonight at 5pm! This session will be recorded if you cannot attend and can be accessed through the zoom link below. If you are interested in NSLJ or journals in general, this is a great opportunity to learn more about the experience and incoming editorial board. Hope to see you there!

ZOOM LINK:

https://lnkd.in/dnGBZ3DX
Meeting ID: 995 3605 4946
Passcode: 924639

CALLING AUTHORS: NSLJ is excited to announce that we are now accepting submissions for Volume 12.1 (Fall/Winter 2024)!

To submit your manuscript: https://nslj.scholasticahq.com/for-authors
To learn more: https://www.nslj.org/submissions/

National Security Law Journal is excited to announce the student comments that have been selected for our upcoming publication in Volume 12:

Brittney DePoto – Can RICO be Used Extraterritorially to Combat the Illicit Fentanyl Crisis?

Francesca Romaniello –The Rio Grande is Crying: How Treaties can Calm the Tears

Camryn Runyan – Censorship by the State: How Jawboning Became an Unconstitutional Tool of the Government in the Digital Age

Riley Schulz – Balancing Human Rights Protections and Judicial Restraint in Foreign Affairs: A Call for a New Approach to Claims Brought under the Alien Tort Statute

NSLJ is pleased to announce our 2024–2025 Editorial Board! We are excited to see all that they accomplish in the coming year.

Editor-in-Chief: Brittney DePoto
Executive Editor: Joseph Szczesny
Managing Editor: Danielle Saman
Senior Articles Editor: Laurelyn Ostrowidzki
Articles Editor: Michael Billotto
Senior Notes Editor: Francesca Romaniello
Notes Editor: Brendan O'Keefe

Additionally, congratulations to all our new full members:
Julia Donnelly
Jared Forbes
Samantha Hargis
Kate KcKain
Mercedes McPhee
Natalie Nachman
Camryn Runyan
Riley Schulz
Nathaniel Taube

NSLJ is pleased to announce the 2022-2023 Editorial Board:

Editor in Chief: Cassandra Hanlon
Executive Editor: Marissa Kelberman
Managing Editor: Hanna-Elizabeth Montgomery
Senior Notes Editor: Bianca Hancock-Siggers
Senior Articles Editor: Annette Yospe
Senior Research Editor: M. Erica Crouse

Each of these applicants impressed us with their applications, interviews, and actions as Candidate Members. We know NSLJ will be in excellent hands during the 2022-2023 school year.

These Candidate Members accomplished all CM responsibilities and attained “Full Membership Status” on NSLJ for the 2022-2023 academic year:

Allison Reilly
Bailey Morris
Megan Ledig
Rebecca Fitzgerald
Yousef Ahmed

Additionally, we would like to announce the following articles and student authors who have been selected for publication in our upcoming issues:

Allison Reilly: “Advancement in Nuclear Technology: A Global Endeavor That Requires Updated Legislation”

Annette Yospe: “The Classified Information Procedures Act: Effects on the Entrapment Defense at the Expense of Defendants”

M. Erica Crouse: “Critical ‘Loupe’ Holes: Conflict Diamonds and security threats arising from Kimberley Process Weaknesses”

Megan Huppee: “Executive Privilege and Inspectors General—The Middle-Man”

Michael Adkisson: “Justice Jackson and Footnote Seventeen: Was Truman’s Seizure in Youngstown Distinguishable from Roosevelt’s Seizure of North American Aviation?”

Michael Castrovilla: “The Inherently Political Nature of the Foreign Agents Registration Act: A Statute in Need of Improvement”

Congratulations!

Join us for NSLJ's 10th Anniversary Symposium Series! Zoom links to follow.

The current Board is putting together a newsletter for our alumni! If you have not received a message on LinkedIn regarding this newsletter and would like to receive it, please message this account with an updated email address. Thank you!

Current cryptocurrency regulations focus on transactions through cryptocurrency exchanges or other hosted wallet transactions. The lack of coverage over unhosted wallets poses a grave national security concern. In her article, “Time to Validate Validators: Determining the Legal Duty of Cryptocurrency Validators Under the Bank Secrecy Act,” Alexis Tellerd asserts the importance of establishing regulations focused on the integral and necessary validation process instead of the forum where such cryptocurrency transactions occur. Her piece is available here:

Volume 8, Issue 2 – Fall 2021 ARTICLE Laura B. West, Beyond Fighting Words: Reconceptualizing Information Warfare and its Legal Barriers, 8 Nat’l Sec. L.J. 162 (2021) Released November 29, 2021. Find on: Westlaw…

What is information warfare? How has it evolved and what drives it in today’s information environment? Dig deeper on information warfare – Check out Laura West’s article: Beyond Fighting Words: Reconceptualizing Information Warfare and its Legal Barriers: https://bit.ly/3xACQWe. Laura West argues for a common U.S. national definition of information warfare. It’s a piece commenting on information platform power, data practices, and speech norms, offering us critical insights into how U.S. laws must be reconceptualized to help the fight against information harms.

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In her piece, “Revamping the Vulnerabilities Equities Process,” Sarah-Johanna Willcockson provides an in-depth analysis of the cyber vulnerabilities discovered by the United States Government. Willcockson analyzes the history of the Vulnerabilities Equities Process and asserts the necessity of establishing a legal framework to address the changing landscape within cyber vulnerability detection. Willcockson’s article is available here:

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