David Luban
David Luban is University Professor and Professor of Law and Philosophy at Georgetown. He has written on just war theory, torture, and the role of lawyers in the conflict with Al Qaeda. He is also an award-winning scholar of legal ethics. His most recent books are Legal Ethics and Human Dignity (Cambridge 2007) and International and Transnational Criminal Law (Aspen 2009) (with Julie O'Sullivan and David P. Stewart). Luban has been a fellow of the Woodrow Wilson Center and held a Guggenheim Fellowship. He has lectured widely in many countries. He received his BA from the University of Chicago and PhD in philosophy from Yale University.
Nadia AsancheyevNadia Asancheyev joined the Center from private practice in New York, where she was a litigator focusing on white collar criminal defense. Previously, Nadia was a law clerk to the Honorable Richard Owen, on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. She has extensive experience working on Guantanamo detainee issues, including work on Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, and on behalf of four Chinese Uighur detainees imprisoned at Guantanamo. Nadia holds a JD from Georgetown University Law Center, where she was the Articles Editor of the Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law, and a BA from Johns Hopkins University.
Larry Schwartztol
Larry Schwartztol is a visiting researcher at the Center for the Spring of 2010. Previously, Larry was a staff attorney in the American Civil Liberties Union's National Security Project, where he litigated cases involving foreign intelligence surveillance, ideological exclusion of foreign scholars, and the government's search authority at airports and the U.S. border. Before that, Larry litigated school equity cases as a Karpatkin Fellow in the ACLU's Racial Justice Program and worked on voting rights issues as a Liman Fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law. He served as a law clerk to Judge Harry T. Edwards of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Larry graduated from Yale Law School and received his BA from the University of Chicago.
Justin Florence
Justin Florence is an Associate at the Washington office of O'Melveny & Myers, LLP and a Non-Resident Fellow at the Center, where he served as a Fellow during the 2007-2008 academic year. Previously, Justin was a law clerk to the Honorable Diana Gribbon Motz, on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. He has experience working for the Department of Homeland Security, and Senator Jack Reed (D-RI). He graduated from Yale Law School, where he was Executive Editor of the Yale Law Journal. He also holds a Master's degree in American history from Harvard University, and a BA from Yale College.
Tim Bass
Tim Bass is a second-year law student at Georgetown. Prior to Georgetown, Tim worked at the EastWest Institute, a non-governmental organization that focuses on conflict prevention and international security. Tim graduated from Stanford University with a degree in history.
Bree Bernwanger
Bree Bernwanger is a third-year student at Georgetown Law. She holds
dual BAs in Plan II Honors and Government from the University of
Texas, where she wrote a senior thesis on presidential decision-making
during the Vietnam War. While at Georgetown, Bree has worked on legal
ethics development at a Peruvian NGO and successfully represented an
asylum seeker in immigration court through the CALS clinic.
Nicholas Smith, Security Law Brief Editor
Nicholas Smith is completing his studies at Georgetown Law after earning a concurrent master’s in Global Economic Law with the Paris Institute of Political Science and Paris I. Nicholas has an MA in international relations and economics from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. He worked for the Peace Corps in Côte d’Ivoire and Washington, as well as the Institute of International Economic Law, the Capital Area Immigrants’ Rights Coalition, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, and the international corporate section of Gide Loyrette Nouel.
Marc Sorel
Marc Sorel is a third-year student in the four-year JD-MSFS joint degree program for law and international relations at Georgetown University. Marc has worked for the United Nations and the Departments of State, Defense, and Homeland Security. Marc graduated from Yale University in 2004 with a BA in history.
Taylor Strickling
Taylor Strickling is a third-year law student at Georgetown. He recently completed a David L. Boren Graduate Fellowship in Morocco, where he studied Modern Standard Arabic and Islamic law. Taylor has also done work on treaty interpretation at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and assisted with Guantanamo detainee cases at Clifford Chance LLP. Taylor graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2003 with an S.B. in Political Science.
Sarah Wappett-Kendall
Sarah Wappett-Kendall is a third-year law student at Georgetown University Law Center, focusing on national security and government service. Sarah Wappett-Kendall majored in Government and minored in Italian and Biology at Georgetown University. She won a George Mitchell Scholarship and studied for her MA in International Security and Conflict Studies at Dublin City University.
Neal Katyal, Director 2007 - 2009
Before his appointment as Deputy Soliciter General on Jaunary 21, 2009, Katyal was a professor at Georgetown Law and the Director of the Center on National Security and the Law. In 2006, he prevailed in the US Supreme Court case of Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, challenging the policy of military trials at Guantanamo Bay Naval Station, Cuba. An expert in matters of constitutional law, particularly the role of the President and Congress in time of war and theories of constitutional interpretation, Katyal has embraced his theoretical work as the platform for practical consequences in the federal courts.
Matthew Gerke, Fellow 2007 - 2009
Matthew Gerke worked for three and a half years in the Pentagon and in Iraq, dealing with rule of law issues in the reconstruction of Iraq. Before that he was in private practice litigation with Arent Fox. He holds a BA from Princeton University, a JD from the University of Michigan Law School, and a Masters in international Public Policy from the University of Michigan.
Babak Siavoshy, Visiting Researcher Fall 2009
Babak Siavoshy served as a law clerk to the Honorable John T. Noonan, Jr., on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco from 2008 - 2009. He graduated from Berkeley Law, where he was Associate Editor of the Berkeley Journal of International Law and worked on the Berkeley Technology Law Journal. He also holds a BA in Philosophy and English Literature from U.C. Berkeley, where he served as a Graduate Student Instructor, teaching courses in the Department of Philosophy and the Department of Cognitive Science.
David Cole
After graduating from Yale Law School, Professor Cole served as a law clerk to Judge Arlin M. Adams of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Professor Cole then became a staff attorney for the Center for Constitutional Rights where he litigated a number of major First Amendment cases, including Texas v. Johnson, 491 U.S. 397 (1989), United States v. Eichman, 496 U.S. 928 (1990), which established that the First Amendment protects flag burning, and National Endowment for the Arts v. Finley, which challenged the constitutionality of content restrictions on federal art funding. He continues to litigate First Amendment and other constitutional issues as a volunteer staff attorney at the Center. He has published in a variety of areas, including civil rights, criminal justice, constitutional law and law and literature. He is the legal affairs correspondent for The Nation, a commentator on National Public Radio: All Things Considered, and the author of three books: Enemy Aliens: Double Standards and Constitutional Freedoms in the War on Terrorism (New Press, 2d ed. 2005); Terrorism and the Constitution: Sacrificing Civil Liberties for National Security (New Press, 3d ed. 2005) (with James X. Dempsey); and No Equal Justice: Race and Class in the American Criminal Justice System (New Press, 1999).
Viet Dinh
Viet D. Dinh A.B., J.D., Harvard. After law school, where he was a Class Marshal and an Olin Research Fellow in Law and Economics, Professor Dinh served as a law clerk to Judge Laurence H. Silberman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. He was Associate Special Counsel to the U.S. Senate Banking Committee for the Whitewater investigation and Special Counsel to U.S. Senator Pete V. Domenici for the impeachment trial of President Clinton. He also serves as counsel to the Special Master mediating a number of lawsuits by Holocaust victims against German and Austrian financial institutions. His representative writings include "Codetermination and Corporate Governance in a Multinational Business Enterprise" in the Journal of Corporation Law, "What is the Law in Law and Development?" in The Green Bag, and "Financial Sector Reform and Economic Development in Vietnam" in Law and Policy in International Business.
Laura Donohue
Laura Donohue recently completed a clerkship with Senior Judge John T. Noonan of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. She received an A.B. in philosophy with honors from Dartmouth College, an M.A. with distinction in peace studies from the University of Ulster, Northern Ireland, a Ph.D. in history from the University of Cambridge and a J.D. with distinction from Stanford Law School. Donohue served as a Fellow at Stanford Law School’s Constitutional Law Center, and at Stanford’s Center for International Security and Cooperation. Prior to this, she was a Fellow at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. She is the author of The Cost of Counterterrorism: Power, Politics, and Liberty (Cambridge University Press, 2008) and Emergency Powers and Counter-Terrorist Law in the United Kingdom 1922-2000 (Irish Academic Press, 2000).
David A. Koplow
After graduating from Yale Law School in 1978, Professor Koplow served first as an attorney-advisor, then as special assistant to the Director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. He has also served as secretary of the Lawyers Alliance for World Security and as a member of the Policy Board of Legal Counsel for the Elderly and the steering committee of Section 2 of the D.C. Bar. He has been at GULC since 1981. From 1997-99, while on leave from the Law Center, he served as Deputy General Counsel (International Affairs) at the Department of Defense. Professor Koplow teaches International Law I, and a seminar in the area of national security, arms control and non-proliferation. He also directs a clinic, the Center for Applied Legal Studies, which practices in the field of political asylum. He has written in the areas of international law, U.S. foreign affairs law, and arms control, especially regarding verification of compliance with arms control treaties.
Jane Stromseth
Professor Stromseth is Faculty Director of the Human Rights Institute. She teaches and writes in the fields of international law and constitutional law and is the co-author of Can Might Make Rights? Building the Rule of Law After Military Interventions (2006). Professor Stromseth has written widely on international law and the use of force, humanitarian intervention, accountability for human rights atrocities, and constitutional war powers. She edited and contributed to Accountability for Atrocities: National and International Responses (2003), and she is the author of a book on the NATO alliance entitled The Origins of Flexible Response: The Debate Over NATO Strategy in the 1960s (1988). Professor Stromseth has served in government as Director for Multilateral and Humanitarian Affairs at the National Security Council and as an Attorney-Adviser in the Office of the Legal Adviser at the U.S. Department of State. Prior to joining the Law Center faculty in 1991, Professor Stromseth served as a law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and to Judge Louis F. Oberdorfer of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and serves on the editorial board of the American Journal of International Law. She received her doctorate in International Relations at Oxford, where she was a Rhodes Scholar, and her law degree at Yale, where she was a student director of the Lowenstein Human Rights Project.
Carlos Manuel Vázquez
After graduating from law school, where he was Articles and Book Reviews Editor of the Columbia Law Review, Professor Vazquez served as a law clerk to the Honorable Stephen Reinhardt of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He then practiced law with Covington and Burling in Washington, DC, before joining the law school faculty as a visiting professor of law in 1990, and then as an associate professor in 1991. From 2000 to 2003, he was the United States member of the Inter-American Juridical Committee, the organ of the Organization of American States responsible for juridical matters and for promoting the progressive development and codification of international law in the Americas. Professor Vazquez has written and taught primarily in the areas of international law, constitutional law, and federal courts.
