The Institute sponsors undergraduate and graduate courses and runs a Master's Program in International Law and Global Security.
[2] The Institute seeks to inform the public policy debate about the nature, role and importance of international law as it connected to issues of science and global security.
Most recently, the Institute has begun a special initiative in the area of cyber security.
[4][5] Among the participants in this initiative have been former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency General Michael Hayden,[6] Siobhan Gorman, national security correspondent of The Wall Street Journal, and Suzanne Spaulding, former General Counsel for the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
Since its creation, the Institute has also sponsored events with a variety of other speakers, including Paul D. Clement, former Solicitor General of the United States, Bill Richardson, the Governor of New Mexico, Neal Katyal, Deputy Solicitor General of the United States and legal counsel to former detainee Salim Hamdan, and David H. Remes, a former partner at Covington & Burling and currently representing detainees in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps.