McDevitt Professor of Jurisprudence; Director, Center on National Security and the Law; Coordinator, Program on Law, Ethics, and International Security
Mitt Regan, Jr.
B.A., University of Houston; M.A., University of California Los Angeles; J.D., Georgetown
Areas of Expertise:
- Human Rights Law
- International Law
- Legal Profession and Professional Ethics
- National Security, Military, War and Peace
- Psychology, Behavioral Economics and Cognitive Science
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Mitt Regan is McDevitt Professor of Jurisprudence, Director of the Center on Ethics and the Legal Profession, and Coordinator of the Program on Law, Ethics, and International Security Georgetown University Law Center. His work focuses on international law, national security, international human rights, legal ethics the legal profession and the rule of law, and ethical issues relating to artificial intelligence. His Center on Ethics and the Legal Profession conducts an annual Law Firm General Counsel Workshop in partnership with Legal Management Resources that focuses on the wide range of issues that today’s inside counsel for law firms must address.
Professor Regan has been a participant in major interdisciplinary international projects on national security that include Cumulative Civilian Harm in War: Addressing the Hidden Human Toll of the Law’s Blind Spot; Intelligence and National Security: Ethics, Efficacy, and Accountability; Global Terrorism and Collective Responsibility: Redesigning Police, Military, and Intelligence Agencies in Liberal Democracies; and a US interdisciplinary project on Split-Second Morality: Understanding Ethical Decision-Making in Combat.
Professor Regan’s books on national security include Drone Strike: Analyzing the Impacts of Targeted Killing (Palgrave Macmillan 2022), Hybrid Threats and Grey Zone Conflict: The Challenge for Liberal Democracies (Mitt Regan & Aurel Sari, eds., oxford University Press 2024); Between Crime and War: Alternative Legal Frameworks for Asymmetric Conflict (Claire Finkelstein, Christopher Fuller, Jens David Ohlin & Mitt Regan eds., Oxford University Press 2022), and National Security Intelligence and Ethics (Seumas Miller, Mitt Regan & Patrick F. Walsh eds., Routledge 2022).
Professor Regan’s books on legal ethics include BigLaw: Money and Meaning in the Modern Law Firm (Chicago: University of Chicago Press 2021)(Mitt Regan & Lisa H. Rohrer); Eat What You Kill: The Fall of a Wall Street Lawyer; Confidence Games: Lawyers, Accountants, and the Tax Shelter Industry (Tanina Rostain & Mitt Regan); and casebooks Professional Responsibility: Problems and Materials (14th ed.)(Thomas D. Morgan, John S. Dzienkowski, & Mitt Regan, Foundation Press 2023); Professional Responsibility: Representing Business Organizations ( John K. Villa & Mitt Regan, West Academic Publishing 2016); and Legal Ethics and Corporate Practice (Jeffrey D. Bauman & Mitt Regan, Thomson/West 2005).
Scholarship
Mitt Regan & Seumas Miller, Counterterrorism and Use of Force in Liberal Democracies (forthcoming).
Mitt Regan, Drone Strike–Analyzing the Impacts of Targeted Killing (Cham, Switz.: Palgrave Pivot 2022).
[BOOK]Mitt Regan, The Ethics of Acting Covertly, Int’l J. Intel. & Counterintelligence (Online First), Nov. 04, 2024, at 1-20.
Mitt Regan & Kevin Mullaney, Emotion, Ethics, and Military Virtues, 22 J. Mil. Ethics 256-273 (2024).
Mitt Regan, International Law and the Humanization of Warfare, 37 Ethics & Int’l Aff. 375-390 (2023). [WWW]
Todd Huntley & Mitt Regan, From Armed Conflict to Countering Threat Networks: Counterterrorism and Social Network Analysis, in Between Crime and War: Hybrid Legal Frameworks for Asymmetric Conflict 437-470 (Claire Finkelstein, Christopher J. Fuller, Jens David Ohlin & Mitt Regan eds., New York: Oxford University Press 2023). [BOOK]
Mary B. DeRosa & Mitt Regan, Accountability for Targeted Killing, in Counter-Terrorism: The Ethical Issues 61-76 (Seumas Miller, Adam Henschke & Jonas Feltes ed., Northampton, Mass.: Edward Elgar 2021).
Mitt Regan & Alexandra White, Preventive Criminal Law: Terrorist Crimes and Liberal Democratic Values, in Counter-Terrorism: The Ethical Issues 10-23 (Seumas Miller, Adam Henschke & Jonas Feltes ed., Northampton, Mass.: Edward Elgar 2021).
Mitt Regan & Michele Poole, Accountability for Covert Action in the United States and the United Kingdom, in National Security Intelligence and Ethics 242-248 (Seumas Miller, Mitt Regan & Patrick Walsh eds., New York: Routledge 2022).
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In The News
"Ethics and impact of drone strikes — "Intelligence Matters"," coverage on CBS News, October 12, 2022, featuring Professor Mitt Regan.
"The Ethics of Military Artificial Intelligence – Conference at the U.S. Naval Academy," coverage in Prio, April 26,2022, featuring Professor Mitt Regan.
"GU Law Center Celebrates Life, Legacy of Late Justice Ginsburg With Virtual Vigil," coverage in The Hoya, September 25, 2020, featuring Adjunct Professor Dori K. Bernstein, Adjunct Professor Mary Hartnett, Distinguished Visitor from the Judiciary Nina Pillard, Professor Mitt Regan, Dean William M. Treanor, Professor Emerita Wendy Webster Williams, and Judge M. Margaret McKeown (LAW ’75).
“Baker & Hostetler Weighs Giving All Partners Stake in the Firm,” coverage by Wall Street Journal Law Blog, August 10, 2015, quoting Professor Milton Regan.