National Security and U.S. Foreign Relations Law; National Security and Cybersecurity Law THE NATIONAL SECURITY LAW PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS GW LAW’S unique strengths: an expert faculty, a comprehensive curriculum, and access to the extensive Washington, D.C., national security law community. The dozens of research centers and think tanks that conduct research in foreign relations and national security law include GW’s on-campus National Security Archive, which provides a trove of declassified documents pertaining to national security for advanced research. Easy access to Capitol Hill allows students the opportunity to observe the work of House and Senate subcommittees firsthand.
The two separate but integrated degree programs offered by GW Law—the LLM in National Security and U.S. Foreign Relations Law and the LLM in National Security and Cybersecurity Law—prepare graduates to enter or move forward in growing practice areas that they address. The breadth of courses in this practice area allows students to explore laws on the use of securing the critical cyber infrastructure, cyber breaches, armed forces and intelligence operations abroad, counterterrorism, homeland security, disaster relief and crisis management, congressional investigations and oversight, classified information, origins of the federal government’s foreign relations powers, electronic surveillance and privacy, cybersecurity, immigration, criminal immigration enforcement, nonproliferation, treatment of detainees, the law of war, and related topics. GW Law’s national security and cybersecurity curriculum is robust. While several U.S. law schools offer one or two courses in this field, few others approach the number of courses available at GW Law. Our full-time faculty members
GW Law welcomed Lt. Col. Shane Reeves and Maj. Ronald Alcala, JD ’04, both from the U.S. Military Academy, for a recent discussion on law, business, and national security.
have written leading casebooks in the field, and the adjunct faculty include the U.S. Department of Justice’s domestic terrorism expert; the former general counsel of FEMA; leading experts on cyber law issues and on privacy and surveillance; a draftsman of the Military Rules of Evidence; the head of appellate litigation for the military commission’s prosecution team; and a U.S. Department of Justice attorney who litigates leading national security law cases. GW Law’s location in the nation’s capital, the heart of the evolving field of national security and cybersecurity law, offers students access to the extensive foreign relations, cybersecurity, intelligence, and national security law community that surrounds us. We are across the street from the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank; two blocks from internationally known law firms on K Street; three blocks from the U.S. Department of State; and a subway ride away from the U.S. Department of Defense, the Transportation Security Administration, the Supreme Court, and a host of nongovernmental and policy agencies. Through GW Law’s Field Placement Program, our students routinely undertake externships for academic credit at these institutions.
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