Professor of Law; Director of the Tech, Law, Security Program
Area of Expertise:
National Security Law; Criminal Law and Procedure; Constitutional Law;
International Humanitarian Law;
Privacy Law; Technology Law
Additional Information:
Jennifer Daskal is a Professor and Faculty Director of the Tech, Law, Security Program at 小蓝视频 Washington College of Law, where she teaches and writes in the fields of cyber, national security, criminal and constitutional law. Prior to joining DOJ, Daskal was senior counterterrorism counsel at Human Rights Watch, worked as a staff attorney for the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia, and clerked for the Honorable Jed S. Rakoff. She also spent two years as a national security law fellow and adjunct professor at Georgetown Law Center. From 2016-2017, she was an Open Society Institute Fellow working on issues related to privacy and law enforcement access to data across borders. She is currently a Scholar-in-Residence at New America.
Daskal鈥檚 scholarship has appeared in the Yale Law Journal, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Vanderbilt Law Review, Stanford Law Review Online, and Harvard Journal of National Security Law, among other places. She published numerous op-eds, including in the New York Times, Washington Post, and The Atlantic and appeared has appeared on BBC, C-Span, MSNBC, and NPR, among other media outlets. She is an Executive Editor of the Just Security blog.
