Maeve Dion, Legal Research Associate

703-993-4737
mdion@gmu.edu

Maeve holds a J.D. cum laude from George Mason University School of Law, and an honors B.A. in political science from Eckerd College.  As Legal Research Associate at the CIP Program, Maeve focuses on legal, economic, and policy issues relating to critical infrastructure protection.  Although her primary focus is on technology and information infrastructure, Maeve has worked on a variety of projects since joining the CIP Program in early 2004.  Some current and past projects include:

• Author of a series of articles on the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), providing an historical perspective as well as an update on the revised CFIUS laws/regs, as well as analysis of the effectiveness of CFIUS in the overall scheme of CIP. Forthcoming 2008.
• Co-author of an article on SCADA security. Forthcoming 2008.
• Author of a chapter for a textbook on homeland security; proposed chapter title: Critical Infrastructure Protection: Securing & Sharing Sensitive Information. Forthcoming.
• Co-author, Critical Assessment: Cyberpower and Critical Infrastructure Protection, chapter in book on Cyber Power, from the National Defense University Press.  Forthcoming.
• Co-author of a whitepaper commissioned by the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD), Investment Committee, Project on Freedom of Investment, National Security and "Strategic" Industries. Public version of paper, titled Protection of "Critical Infrastructure" and Role of Investment Policies Relating to National Security (May 2008), is available from the OECD website.
• Invited participant in a two-day education and training strategy session entitled "Preparing the Agile Cyber Defender," hosted by the Air Force Cyber Command (Provisional), HQ USAF, and Carnegie Mellon University's Software Engineering Institute. May 28-29, 2008.
• Author of two essays regarding limitations on public access to State critical infrastructure information, with a special focus on non-release / non-access provisions passed since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Published in Selected Essays on State Open Government Law and Practice in a Post-9/11 World (Jeffrey Addicott & Ema Garcia, eds., 2008). Sponsored by the Center for Terrorism Law at St. Mary's University School of Law under a grant from the U.S. Congress.  Related conference at the National Press Club, Washington, D.C., November 15 - 16, 2007.
• Invited speaker on a panel entitled "Cyber Terrorism and the Law" at  a symposium on Cyberterrorism: Policy, Legal & Operational Responses in San Antonio, TX. March 5-6, 2008
• Supporting researcher for a member of the Committee for Assessment of the Bureau of Reclamation's Security Program (a National Academies committee), focusing on dam security, intelligence, and law enforcement.  February - May 2007.
• Participant, Homeland Defense and Security Education Summit, Fairfax, Virginia, February 27 - 28, 2007.
• Invited observer, Cyber Tempest, a regional cyber tabletop exercise organized by the New York State Office of Cyber Security and Critical Infrastructure Coordination (CSCIC), the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC), and the Department of Homeland Security's National Cyber Security Division (NCSD).  December 2006.
• Author of an article on the EU-US passenger name record (PNR) agreements.  December 2006.
• Supporting organizational assistant (responsible for CIP Program's invitation to host), and attendee, Cyber Conflict Studies Association's annual symposium, Homeland Security -- Homeland Defense, George Mason University School of Law, Arlington, Virginia, November 3, 2006.
• Author of legal and policy analysis (requested from a state governor's office) regarding certain provisions in the 2007 Defense Authorization Act, specifically looking at the use and control (federal versus state) of the National Guard for disaster response and critical infrastructure protection. September 2006.
• Invited participant in a legal workshop organized by the Cyber Conflict Studies Association, to explore the legal issues related to cyber conflict and to develop a research agenda and networking base for students in law, public policy, and information technology. Harvard Faculty Club, Cambridge, MA.,  July 25 - 26, 2006.
• Co-author, whitepaper on critical information infrastructure protection, presented (by the Director of the CIP Program) at an international conference  hosted by the Critical Information Infrastructure Research Co-ordination Project (CI2RCO), a Co-ordination Action co-funded under the Information Society Technologies Priority of the 6th Framework Programme by the European Commission. Rome, Italy, March 2006.
• Co-author, chapter on "Posse Comitatus and the Military's Role in Disaster Relief" in the Hurricane Katrina Task Force Subcommittee Report for the ABA Standing Committee on Law and National Security.  February 2006.  Excerpted in Daniel A. Farber & Jim Chen, Disasters and the Law: Katrina and Beyond 50-52 (2006).
• Author of Identity Theft and the Information Security Breaches of 2005: What Have We Learned?  February 2006.
• Supporting researcher and assistant, CIP Program's assessment of foreign direct investment in CIP [relating to the activities of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the US (CFIUS)].  2005 - 2006.
• Co-author, conference working paper on balancing homeland security and civil liberties in critical infrastructure protection post-9/11.  Conference of the New America Foundation: Terrorism, Security and America's Purpose: Towards a More Comprehensive Strategy, Washington, D.C., September 6 - 7, 2005.
• Author of op-ed on security and privacy in the technological age.  September 2005.
• Co-author, article on open-source software licensing issues.  2004.