JLIA Events and Symposia

Event Title

The Internet vs. Cyberspace: How the U.S. Government Should Stop Focusing on the Internet and Start Focusing on Cyberspace

Presenter Information

Col. Gary Brown

Location

Sutliff Auditorium, 118 Lewis Katz Building

Event Website

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

Start Date

15-4-2016 11:15 AM

End Date

15-4-2016 12:15 PM

Speaker Bio

Retired Air Force Col. Gary Brown is currently a professor of cyber security at the Marine Corps University in Quantico, Virginia. Brown previously served as head of communications and congressional affairs for the Washington Delegation, International Committee of the Red Cross. Brown served 24 years as a judge advocate with the Air Force. His Air Force career included two deployments to the Middle East, one of which was a year at the Combined Air Operations Center, Southwest Asia, as the senior lawyer advising on combat air operations in Afghanistan and Iraq. In his final military assignment, he was the first senior legal counsel for U.S. Cyber Command, Fort Meade, Maryland, where he served for three years.

Brown frequently speaks on cyber operations law and policy, and has authored several articles related to cyber warfare, including “Easier Said Than Done: Legal Reviews of Cyber Weapons,” “Why Iran Didn’t Admit Stuxnet Was an Attack,” and “On the Specturm of Cyberspace Operations.” Brown was the official U.S. observer to the drafting of the Tallinn Manual on the International Law Applicable to Cyber Warfare, and is a member of the International Group of Experts drafting the second edition of the Tallinn Manual. Brown has a law degree from the University of Nebraska and an LL.M. in International Law from Cambridge University.