CASES - Key Persons

Adam I. Klein

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Director of the Robert Strauss Center for International Security
Director, Robert Strauss Center for International Security and Law / Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Texas at Austin

Adam I. Klein is director of the Robert Strauss Center for International Security and Law at the University of Texas at Austin. He previously chaired the federal government's Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, which oversees the FBI and other intelligence agencies.

Alan Charles Raul

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Privacy and Cybersecurity Partner

Raul is a Privacy and Cybersecurity partner in Sidley Austin LLP's Washington, DC and New York offices. He previously served as Vice Chairman of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, General Counsel of the Office of Management and Budget, and Associate Counsel to President Reagan, among other government positions. He also serves as a Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School where he teaches a course on "Digital Governance: Privacy and Technology Trade-offs" and Senior Counsel at Sidley Austin LLP.

Alan Z. Rozenshtein

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Associate Professor of Law, University of Minnesota Law School

Amichai Cohen

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Professor of Law, Ono Academic College

Amichai Cohen teaches international law and national security law at the Ono Academic College, Israel, where he previously served as the dean of the Faculty of Law. He is also a senior fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute. Cohen received his LL.B. degree from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and his LL.M. and J.S.D. degrees from Yale Law School.

Andrew Keane Woods

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Associate Professor of Law, University of Arizona

Ashley Deeks

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Professor of Law, University of Virginia Law School
Professor of Scholarly Research

Ashley Deeks is the Class of 1948 Professor of Scholarly Research in Law at the University of Virginia Law School and a Faculty Senior Fellow at the Miller Center. She serves on the State Department's Advisory Committee on International Law. In 2021-22 she worked as the Deputy Legal Advisor at the National Security Council. She graduated from the University of Chicago Law School and clerked on the Third Circuit.

Benjamin Wittes

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Editor in Chief of Lawfare
Senior Fellow in Governance Studies

Benjamin Wittes is editor in chief of Lawfare and a Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution. He is the author of several books.

Bob Bauer

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Professor of Practice and Distinguished Scholar in Residence

Brandon L. Van Grack

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Partner, Morrison & Foerster LLP / Former Chief of FARA Unit and Senior Assistant Special Counsel, Department of Justice

Bruce Schneier

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Fellow and Lecturer, Harvard Kennedy School / Chief of Security Technology, Inrupt Inc

Carrie Cordero

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Senior Fellow at the Center

Carrie Cordero is a Senior Fellow at the Center for a New American Security. She is also an adjunct professor at Georgetown Law, where she previously served as Director of National Security Studies. She spent the first part of her career in public service, including as Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General for National Security; Senior Associate General Counsel at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence; Attorney Advisor at the Department of Justice, where she practiced before the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court; and Special Assistant United States Attorney.

Charles I. Francis

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Professor in Law

Daniel Byman

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Professor at Georgetown University, Lawfare
Senior Fellow, Transnational Threats Project

Daniel Byman is a professor at Georgetown University, Lawfare's Foreign Policy Essay editor, and a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic & International Studies.

Daryl Levinson

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Professor

Daryl Levinson is a professor at NYU School of Law.

David Priess

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Director of Intelligence at Bedrock Learning, Inc

David Priess is Director of Intelligence at Bedrock Learning, Inc. and a Senior Fellow at the Michael V. Hayden Center for Intelligence, Policy, and International Security. He served during the Clinton and Bush 43 administrations as a CIA officer and has written two books: "The President's Book of Secrets," about the top-secret President's Daily Brief, and "How To Get Rid of a President," describing the ways American presidents have left office.

Dorothy H. Lewis Rosenstiel

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Professor of Law, University of Arizona

Dr. Herb Lin

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Senior Research

Dr. Herb Lin is senior research scholar for cyber policy and security at the Center for International Security and Cooperation and Hank J. Holland Fellow in Cyber Policy and Security at the Hoover Institution, both at Stanford University. His research interests relate broadly to policy-related dimensions of cybersecurity and cyberspace, and he is particularly interested in and knowledgeable about the use of offensive operations in cyberspace, especially as instruments of national policy. In addition to his positions at Stanford University, he is Chief Scientist, Emeritus for the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, National Research Council (NRC) of the National Academies, where he served from 1990 through 2014 as study director of major projects on public policy and information technology, and Adjunct Senior Research Scholar and Senior Fellow in Cybersecurity (not in residence) at the Saltzman Institute for War and Peace Studies in the School for International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. Prior to his NRC service, he was a professional staff member and staff scientist for the House Armed Services Committee (1986-1990), where his portfolio included defense policy and arms control issues. He received his doctorate in physics from MIT.

Elena Chachko

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Fellow

Eric Ciaramella

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Lawfare Contributing Editor
Senior Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program

Eric Ciaramella, a Lawfare contributing editor, is also a senior fellow in the Russia and Eurasia program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he specializes in Ukraine and post-Soviet affairs. He previously served in the U.S. government as an intelligence analyst and policy official, including at the CIA, National Intelligence Council, and National Security Council.

Erin Sikorsky

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Director, Center for Climate & Security

Eugenia Lostri

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Legal Fellow

George Bemis

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Professor of International Law, Harvard Law School

Hersch Lauterpacht

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Chairman in Public International Law, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Ingrid (Wuerth) Brunk

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Professor, Vanderbilt Law School

J. Dana Stuster

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Deputy Foreign Policy Editor

J.Z. Liang

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Chairman, School of Cybersecurity & Privacy, Georgia Institute of Technology

Jack Goldsmith

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Professor

Jaime Lopez

Jaime Luis Lopez is a J.D. Candidate at Georgetown University Law Center, where he focuses primarily on international and national security law. He has worked for the Dept. of Defense on Guantanamo Bay issues and is a member of the Georgetown Journal of International Law. Originally from Miami, FL, he received his undergraduate degrees in International Affairs and Economics from Florida State University.

Jane Bambauer

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Professor of Law at the University of Arizona

Jane Bambauer is a professor of law at the University of Arizona, where she teaches and researches about free speech, privacy and technology policy.

Jeff Kosseff

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Professor of Cybersecurity Law, United States Naval Academy

Jen Patja

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Editor and Producer of the Lawfare Podcast

Jen Patja is the editor and producer of The Lawfare Podcast and Rational Security. She currently serves as the Co-Executive Director of Virginia Civics, a nonprofit organization that empowers the next generation of leaders in Virginia by promoting constitutional literacy, critical thinking, and civic engagement. She is the former Deputy Director of the Robert H. Smith Center for the Constitution at James Madison's Montpelier and has been a freelance editor for over 20 years.

Jim Baker

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Contributing Editor

Jim Baker is a contributing editor to Lawfare. He is a former Deputy General Counsel of Twitter, the former General Counsel of the FBI, and the former Counsel for Intelligence Policy at the U.S. Department of Justice. In that latter role, from 2001-2007, he was responsible for all matters presented to the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. The views expressed do not necessarily reflect those of any current or former employer.

Jim Dempsey

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Lecturer
Senior Advisor, Stanford Cyber Policy Center

Jim Dempsey is a lecturer at the UC Berkeley Law School and a senior policy advisor at the Stanford Cyber Policy Center. From 2012-2017, he served as a part-time member of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board. He is the author of Cybersecurity Law Fundamentals (IAPP, 2021).

John B. Bellinger III

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Partner, Arnold & Porter LLP / Adjunct Senior Fellow in International and National Security Law

John B. Bellinger III is a partner in the international and national security law practices at Arnold & Porter in Washington, DC. He is also Adjunct Senior Fellow in International and National Security Law at the Council on Foreign Relations. He served as The Legal Adviser for the Department of State from 2005-2009, as Senior Associate Counsel to the President and Legal Adviser to the National Security Council at the White House from 2001-2005, and as Counsel for National Security Matters in the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice from 1997-2001.

Jonathan G. Cedarbaum

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Professor of Practice, George Washington University Law School

Jonathan Shaub

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Contributing Editor
Assistant Professor of Law

Jonathan Shaub is a contributing editor to Lawfare and an assistant professor of Law at the University of Kentucky J. David Rosenberg College of Law. He formerly served in the U.S. Department of Justice as an attorney-adviser in the Office of Legal Counsel and as a Bristow Fellow in the Solicitor General's Office.

Joseph M. McLaughlin

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Chairman, Fordham University School of Law

Justin Sherman

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Senior Fellow, Duke University Sanford School of Public Policy

Katherine Pompilio

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Research Fellow

Kenneth Propp

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Senior Fellow at the Europe Center
Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council Europe Center / Adjunct Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center

Kenneth Propp is senior fellow at the Europe Center of the Atlantic Council, senior fellow at the Cross-Border Data Forum, and adjunct professor of European Law at Georgetown Law. From 2011-2015 he served as Legal Counselor at the U.S. Mission to the European Union in Brussels, Belgium.