Advisory Committee Members
Chair: Al Harvey, Major General, USMC (ret.) private practice, Memphis, TN and former Board of Governors’ liaison to Standing Committee and former President, Tennessee Bar Association. Member, ABA House of Delegates.
William Banks, Professor, of Law and Director, Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism. He is an international expert on constitutional and national security law and counterterrorism and author of the leading text National Security Law, now in its third edition.
John Bellinger, Partner, National and Homeland Security Practice Group, Arnold & Porter and former Legal Adviser to the Department of State and Legal Adviser to the National Security Council.
Laurie Blank, Professor, Emory University School of Law, and Director of their International Humanitarian Law Clinic and former program officer in the Rule of Law Program at the U.S. Institute of Peace.
Joel F. Brenner, served as the National Counterintelligence Executive and Mission Manager for Counterintelligence within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. Prior, he served as the Inspector General for the National Security Agency.
Angeline G. Chen, Associate General Counsel, Lockheed Martin Corporation, Adjunct Professor, George Mason University Law School and former Assistant General Counsel, National Security Agency.
Robert M. Chesney, Professor of Law, The University of Texas at Austin and served on the Detainee Policy Task Force through the U.S. Department of Justice. He is a senior editor for the Journal of National Security Law & Policy, an associate member of the Intelligence Science Board, a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a member of the American Law Institute.
Mary DeRosa, Deputy Counsel to the President for National Security Affairs and Legal Adviser to the National Security Council, and former Chief Counsel for National Security, Senate Committee on the Judiciary.
Laura Donohue, Professor of Law, and Acting Director of Georgetown’s Center on National Security and the Law. Former Clerk for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and life member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Charles Dunlap, Professor of the Practice of Law and Executive Director, Center on Law, Ethics and National Security, . Retired deputy judge advocate general of the U.S. Air Force, having attained the rank of major general during a 34-year career in the Judge Advocate Corps.
Michael Greenberger, Professor of Law, University of Maryland and Director, Center for Health & Homeland Security.
Amos Guiora, Professor of Law, S.J. Quinney College of Law, University of Utah and teaches Criminal Law, Global Perspectives on Counter-terrorism and Religion and Terrorism. He is also a Research Fellow at the International Institute on Counter-Terrorism, The Interdisciplinary Center, Herzeliya, Israel and served for 19 years in the Israel Defense Forces Judge Advocate General’s Corps. (Lt. Col. Ret.)
George Jameson, spent 33 years as a lawyer at the Central Intelligence Agency in many senior positions including analysis, operation and community affairs. He is currently a consultant on issues relating to intelligence and other national security matters and co-founded the Council on Intelligence Issues, a non-profit educational and service organization established to help provide legal and other assistance to CIA and other intelligence personnel.
M. Tia Johnson, Colonel, Judge Advocate US Army, and Special Assistant for Legal and International Security Affairs, Office of the Secretary of Defense, Office of Legislative Affairs and former Legal Advisor, NATO Joint Forces Command, in Naples.
James E. McPherson, Executive Director, National Association of Attorneys General and Rear Admiral, U.S. Navy (ret.) and former General Counsel, Counterintelligence Field Activity and former Judge Advocate General, U.S. Navy.
Ben Powell, Partner, WilmerHale and former General Counsel of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) and previously served as Special Assistant to the President and Associate White House Counsel.
Paul Rosenzweig, private practice with Red Branch Law & Consulting PLLC. Former Acting Assistant Secretary for International Affairs and later Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. He also serves as a Senior Editor of the Journal of National Security Law and is a coauthor of the book, "Winning the Long War: Lessons from the Cold War for Defeating Terrorism and Preserving Freedom.”
Mark Sessions, partner, Strasburger & Price LLP, in and former General Counsel of a privately held long distance telecommunication company.
John H. Shenefield, Counsel, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, and former Associate Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice.
Corin R. Stone, Deputy General Counsel, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and former attorney-adviser in the Office of the Legal Adviser at the U.S. Department of State.
John Tunheim, , District Court in . Former Minnesota Chief Deputy Attorney General and former Chair of the U.S. Assassination Records Review Board.
Clark Walton, Assistant Attorney General, State of .
Special Advisors: John D. Altenburg Jr., USA (ret.), Counsel, Greenburg Traurig LLP and former Appointing Authority for Military Commissions, Office of the Secretary of Defense.
Stewart A. Baker, currently in private practice and former Assistant Secretary for Policy, U.S. Department of Homeland Security and former General Counsel to the Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction. Previously served as General Counsel, National Security Agency.
Spike Bowman, Visiting Scholar, University of Virginia School of Law and former Deputy Director, Office of National Counterintelligence Executive and former Deputy General Counsel, National Security, FBI and Chief, Intelligence Issues Group, National Security Branch.
Scott Silliman, Director Emeritus, Center on Law, Ethics and National Security and Professor of the Practice of Law Duke University School of Law, former Air Force Judge Advocate.
