Jeffrey Rosen is a professor at the George Washington University Law School and the legal-affairs editor of The New Republic. He is one of the leading speakers and writers on the issue of privacy and security in post-9/11 America, and a strong advocate of using well-designed laws and technologies to strike an effective and reasonable balance between liberty, privacy and security. During his presentation he offered a penetrating account of why some are reluctant to adopt the appropriate laws and technologies necessary to accomplish these goals.