Jeremy Rabkin, "Rewriting the Rules for War? Cyber, Robotic, and Space Weapons in the 21st Century"

With commentary by Dr. Charles Lipson

Jeremy A. Rabkin is a professor at George Mason Law School in Arlington, Virginia, specializing in international law and constitutional history. Rabkin received a bachelor's degree from Cornell (1974) and earned a doctorate in political science at Harvard University. He taught in the Department of Government at Cornell University from 1980 until the spring of 2007. Professor Rabkin serves on the Board of Directors of the U.S. Institute of Peace (originally appointed by President George W. Bush in 2007, then appointed for a second term by President Barack Obama and reconfirmed by the Senate in 2011).  He serves on the board of academic advisors of the American Enterprise Institute, on the advisory board of the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, and the board of directors of the Center for Individual Rights (a public interest law firm in Washington, D.C.).  Rabkin’s recent writing has focused on the history and continuing significance of national sovereignty, as in, Law Without Nations (Princeton University Press, 2005).  His most recent book, co-authored with John Yoo, is entitled Striking Power: How Cyber, Robots, and Space Weapons Change the Rules for War.

Dr. Charles Lipson teaches international relations at the University of Chicago, where he is the Peter B. Ritzma Professor in Political Science and the College and is the founding director of PIPES, the Program on International Politics, Economics, and Security. He was als a 2011 recipient of the University of Chicago’s prestigious Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. Dr. Lipson’s research deals with international cooperation and conflict and with political aspects of the world economy. He has also written extensively and spoken extensively about education and academic integrity, and frequently contributes op-eds to the Chicago Tribune and RealClearPolitics. A native of Marks, Mississippi, Dr. Lipson graduated from Yale College and received his M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University.

Presented by the Federalist Society on November 6, 2017.