JLIA Events and Symposia

Event Title

Preparedness, Response, Recovery, and Resilience in the Face of the Coming Cyber Storms: How the U.S. Government Can and Should Promote Cybersecurity—and How They Should Not

Presenter Information

Micheal Bahar

Location

Sutliff Auditorium, 118 Lewis Katz Building

Event Website

https://pennstatelaw.psu.edu/events/jlia-symposium-war-21st-century

Start Date

15-4-2016 1:00 PM

End Date

15-4-2016 2:00 PM

Speaker Bio

Michael Bahar is currently the minority staff director and general counsel for the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Bahar has been with the Committee since 2012. Between March 2010 and February 2012, he served in the White House as deputy legal adviser to the National Security Council Staff. He is currently in the U.S. Navy Reserves as a JAG supporting U.S. Special Operations Command, and while on active duty, Bahar deployed twice, once to Afghanistan as deputy staff judge advocate to a Special Operations Task Force, and a second time to the Arabian Gulf and Horn of Africa as the staff judge advocate to a naval strike group. While on active duty, Bahar also served as the aide to the deputy judge advocate general of the Navy, as deputy staff judge advocate to the vice chief of Naval Operations, as assistant staff judge advocate to Naval Special Warfare Development Group, and as a prosecutor. Prior to going on active duty, Bahar was a litigation associate in the New York offices of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP.

Bahar has a B.A. in Political Science from Yale University, an M.Phil in International Relations from Cambridge University, a J.D. from Harvard Law School, and an LL.M. in International/National Security Law from Columbia University. Bahar has also been an adjunct professor at New York University and at the University of North Florida, as well as the artistic director of a nonprofit theatrical production company.