Brett Raffish is a second-year student at Harvard Law School. He has previously worked at the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, and currently serves as a Senior Editor for the H...

Lyle J. Goldstein, Ph.D., is research professor at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island. He was the founder of the China Maritime Studies Institute there and is also an affiliate of the co...

Canyon Brimhall works with the Technology & Innovation and Cybersecurity & Emerging Threats teams to promote pragmatic, free-market policy solutions to complex technological issues. Canyon got his start ...

Sonja Swanbeck is a J.D. student at Georgetown University Law Center. She previously served as an analyst at the National Counterterrorism Center and holds degrees from the University of Michigan and Wel...

Karman Lucero is currently a Fellow at the Paul Tsai China Center at Yale Law School where he works on issues related to the intersections of technology, law, and US-China relations and other issues. Bef...

Dr. Mary Anne Franks is a Professor of Law and Dean’s Distinguished Scholar at the University of Miami School of Law, where she teaches First Amendment law, law and technology, and criminal law and proce...

Joe McReynolds is the Chinese Security Studies Fellow at the Jamestown Foundation and co-founder of the China Cyber and Intelligence Studies Institute (CCISI). His research interests center primarily on ...

Elsa B. Kania is an adjunct senior fellow with the Technology and National Security Program at the Center for a New American Security. Her research focuses on U.S.-China relations, China’s military strat...

Alexandra B. Klass is a Distinguished McKnight University Professor at the University of Minnesota Law School. She teaches and writes in the areas of energy law, natural resources law, environmental law,...

Faiza Patel serves as co-director of the Brennan Center’s Liberty and National Security Program, which seeks to ensure that our counterterrorism laws and policies respect constitutional values and promot...

Harsha Panduranga is counsel in the Brennan Center’s Liberty & National Security Program. His work has been featured in press outlets including the Atlantic, Slate, Daily Beast, and Just Security. Pandur...

Noha K. Moustafa is an associate in the Washington, D.C. office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP & Affiliates. Prior to joining Skadden, she worked at the Department of Justice and Department ...

Jessie K. Liu is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP & Affiliates. She served as the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia from 2017 to 2020. Prior t...

Zia M. Faruqui is a U.S. Magistrate Judge in the District Court for the District of Columbia. He previously served as an assistant U.S. attorney for 12 years, during which time his work focused on the in...

Michael Garcia is the Senior Policy Advisor for Third Way’s National Security Program, a 2021 Shawn Brimley Next Generation National Security Fellow at the Center for a New American Security, and a Trans...

Matthew Kahn is a third-year law student at Harvard Law School and a contributor at Lawfare. Prior to law school, he worked for two years as an associate editor of Lawfare and as a junior researcher at t...

William W. Burke-White is a professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.

Jon Temin is the director of the Africa program at Freedom House. He was previously a member of the U.S. Department of State’s Policy Planning Staff and director of the U.S. Institute of Peace’s Africa P...