Bankrupting Our National Security: Stopping Technology Theft Through Our Courts

Friday, February 21, 2020

Reading Materials

 

Lecture 1: National Security Landscape | 9:00 – 10:00 AM
Speaker: Jamil N. Jaffer, NSI Founder and Executive Director

Cory Bennett & Bryan Bender, How China Acquires ‘the Crown Jewels’ of U.S. Technology, Politico, May 22, 2018.  (Available here).

Michael Brown & Pavneet Singh, Def. Innovation Unit Experimental, China’s Technology Transfer Strategy: How Chinese Investments in Emerging Technology Enable A Strategic Competitor to Access the Crown Jewels of U.S. Innovation (2018) (pgs. 2-4; 11-24; 39-43).  (Available here).

Worldwide Threats: Hearing Before S. Select Comm. on Intelligence, 116th Cong. 75 (2019) (statement of Daniel R. Coats, Dir. of Nat’l Intelligence) (pgs. 4-7; 13-16).  (Available here).

 

Lecture 2: Foreign Investment Legal Regime | 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Speaker: David Hanke, Partner, Arent Fox; NSI Visiting Fellow

CFIUS Reform: Examining the Essential Elements: Hearing Before S. Comm. on Banking, Hous., and Urban Affairs, 115th Cong. (2018) (statement of James Mulvenon, General Manager, SOS International).  (Available here).

Cong. Research Serv., R41916, The U.S. Export Control System and the Export Control Reform Initiative (Jan. 28, 2020) (pgs. 1-6). (Available here).

Heather Somerville, China Investors Keep Making Deals in Silicon Valley Amid Washington Pushback, Wall Street Journal, Oct. 28, 2019.  (Available here).

Office of Public Affairs, U.S. Dep’t of Treas., Fact Sheet: Final CFIUS Regulations Implementing FIRRMA (2020).  (Available here).

U.S. Dep’t of Treas., Summary of the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act of 2018 (2018).  (Available here).

Optional:

Confronting Threats from China: Assessing Controls on Technology and Investment, and Measures to Combat Opioid Trafficking: Hearing Before S. Comm. on Banking, Hous., and Urban Affairs, 116th Cong. (2019) (statement of Kevin J. Wolf, Former Assistant Sec’y of Commerce for Exp. Admin., Dep’t of Commerce).  (Available here).

 

Interactive Workshops | 1:45 – 3:15 PM
Speakers: Giovanna M. Cinelli, Partner, Morgan Lewis; NSI Visiting Fellow and Camille Stewart, Project Lead, Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation, Foundation for Defense of Democracies

Camille A. Stewart, Full Court Press: Preventing Foreign Adversaries from Exfiltrating National Security Technologies Through Bankruptcy Proceedings, 10 Nat’l Security L. & Pol’y.  (Available here).

In re Global Crossing Ltd., 295 B.R. 720 (Bankr. S.D.N.Y 2003). (Available here).

Melvin v. United States, 14 Cl. Ct. 236 (1988).  (Available here).

Ross-Hime Designs, Inc. v. United States, 109 Fed. Cl. 725 (2013).  (Available here).

Optional:

Camille Stewart & Giovanna M. Cinelli, Found. for Def. of Democracies, Comments Related to U.S. Bankruptcy Court Rules and Their Impact on U.S. National Security (2020).  (Available here).

Ponzio v. 3M Co., No. 216CV3521JFWKSX, 2016 WL 6407376 (C.D. Cal. Oct. 28, 2016).  (Available here).

United States v. Sixing Liu, No. 11-208 (SRC), (D.N.J. Sept. 4 2012).  (Available here).