Advisory Board

NSJ is a student-run journal advised by a group of distinguished academics and practitioners in the field of national security law and policy. We are grateful to the following advisors for their time and expertise:

• Gabriella Blum, Harvard Law School
• Robert Chesney, University of Texas School of Law
• Jack Goldsmith, Harvard Law School
• Philip Heymann, Harvard Law School
• Harvey Rishikoff, National War College
• Jessica Stern, Harvard Kennedy School
• Alex Whiting, Harvard Law School
• Benjamin Wittes, Brookings Institution

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Gabriella Blum, Harvard Law School

Gabriella Blum is an Assistant Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. She also serves as a strategic advisor to the Israeli National Security Council. Blum earned an LL.B. in 1995 and a B.A. in Economics in 1996 from Tel-Aviv University. She received an L.L.M in 2001 and a S.J.D. in 2003 from Harvard Law School. Blum is also a former graduate research fellow at the Program on Negotiation. Previously she worked as a lawyer for the Israel Defense Forces, serving in the International Law Department of the Military Advocate General’s Corps.

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Robert Chesney, University of Texas School of Law

Bobby Chesney is a national security law specialist, with a particular interest in problems associated with terrorism. Professor Chesney currently is serving in the Justice Department in connection with the Detainee Policy Task Force created by Executive Order 13493. He is a member of the Advisory Committee of the American Bar Association’s Standing Committee on Law and National Security, 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. He holds a TS/SCI clearance. Professor Chesney has published extensively on topics ranging from detention and prosecution in the counterterrorism context to the states secrets privilege (testifying in Congress last year regarding the latter topic). He has served previously as chair of the Section on National Security Law of the Association of American Law Schools and as editor of the National Security Law Report (published by the American Bar Association’s Standing Committee on Law and National Security). His upcoming projects include a book (under contract with Oxford University Press) concerning the evolving judicial role in national security affairs.

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Jack Goldsmith, Harvard Law School

Jack Goldsmith is Henry L. Shattuck Professor of Law at Harvard University. He is the author, most recently, of The Terror Presidency: Law and Judgment Inside The Bush Administration (W.W. Norton 2007), as well as of other books and articles on many topics related to terrorism, national security, international law, conflicts of law, and internet law. Before coming to Harvard, Professor Goldsmith served as Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel, from October 2003 through July 2004, and Special Counsel to the General Counsel to the Department of Defense from September 2002 through June 2003. Goldsmith taught at the University of Chicago Law School from 1997-2002, and at the University of Virginia Law School from 1994-1997. He holds a J.D. from Yale Law School, a B.A. and M.A. from Oxford University, and a B.A. from Washington & Lee University. He clerked for Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, Court of Appeals Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson, and Judge George Aldrich on the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal.

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Philip Heymann, Harvard Law School

Philip Heymann is the James Barr Ames Professor of Law and Director of the International Center for Criminal Justice at Harvard Law School. Heymann has served at high levels in both the State and Justice Departments during the Kennedy, Johnson, Carter, and Clinton administrations including Deputy U.S. Attorney General (1993-1994). A former Fulbright Scholar with degrees from Yale University and Harvard Law School, Professor Heymann has served as clerk for Supreme Court Justice John Harlan, Acting Administrator of the State Department’s Bureau of Security and Consular Affairs, and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of International Organizations, among other positions. Heymann also studied at the Sorbonne in France. He has authored and edited seven books and numerous articles on terrorism, management in government, criminal justice, and combating corruption at home and abroad. His most recent book, Protecting Liberty in Age of Terror, co-authored with Juliette Kayyem from the Kennedy School of Government, explores threats to national security and civil liberties posed by terrorism.

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Harvey Rishikof, National War College

Harvey Rishikof is Professor of Law and National Security at the National War College, Washington, DC, and Chair of the American Bar Association Standing Committee on National Security Law. He holds a TS/SCI clearance. A former Canadian Council Scholar with degrees from McGill University, Brandeis University and N.Y.U. Law School, Professor Rishikof served as law clerk for Third Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Leonard I. Garth, Administrative Assistant to Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist of the United States Supreme Court, legal counsel to the Deputy Director of the FBI, and dean of the Roger Williams University School of Law. A former Harvard Social Studies Law tutor, Rishikof is a lifetime member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the American Law Institute. Rishikof has published extensively on topics ranging from detention and prosecution, national security courts, the law of armed conflict, international law, and economic espionage. His upcoming projects include a co-edited book concerning the national security enterprise.
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Jessica Stern, Harvard Kennedy School

Jessica Stern is a faculty affiliate of the Belfer Center’s International Security Program and a Lecturer in Public Policy at the Kennedy School. From 1994–1995, she served as Director for Russian, Ukrainian, and Eurasian Affairs at the National Security Council, where she was responsible for national-security policy toward Russia and the former Soviet states, and for policies to reduce the threat of nuclear smuggling and terrorism. Stern earlier worked at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. In 1998–1999, Stern was the Superterrorism Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and in 1995–1996, she was a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. She is the author of The Ultimate Terrorists (Harvard University Press, 1999) and of numerous articles on terrorism and weapons of mass destruction. She received a bachelor’s degree from Barnard College in Chemistry, a master of science degree from MIT, and a doctorate in public policy from Harvard University.

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Alex Whiting, Harvard Law School

Alex Whiting is currently an Assistant Clinical Professor of Law at Harvard Law School where he teaches a War Crimes Prosecution clinic, a Government lawyering course, and Evidence. From 2002-2007, he was a Trial Attorney and then a Senior Trial Attorney with the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague. He was lead prosecution counsel in Prosecutor v. Fatmir Limaj, Isak Musliu, and Haradin Bala; Prosecutor v. Milan Martić; and Prosecutor v. Dragomir Milošević. Before going to the ICTY, he was a prosecutor with the Department of Justice for ten years, first with the Criminal Section of the Civil Rights Division in Washington, D.C., and then with the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Boston where he focused on organized crime and corruption cases. Whiting attended Yale College and Yale Law School, and clerked in the Eastern District of New York for Judge Eugene H. Nickerson. Whiting currently writes and consults on war crimes prosecution issues.

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Benjamin Wittes­­­, Brookings Institution

Benjamin Wittes is a senior fellow in Governance Studies at The Brookings Institution. He is the author of Law and the Long War: The Future of Justice in the Age of Terror (The Penguin Press, 2008). His previous books include Starr: A Reassessment (Yale University Press, 2002) and Confirmation Wars: Preserving Independent Courts in Angry Times, (Rowman & Littlefield and the Hoover Institution, 2006). Between 1997 and 2006, he served as an editorial writer for The Washington Post specializing in legal affairs. Before joining the editorial page staff of The Washington Post, Wittes covered the Justice Department and federal regulatory agencies as a reporter and news editor at Legal Times. His writing has also appeared in a wide range of journals and magazines, including Slate, The New Republic, The Wilson Quarterly, The Weekly Standard, Policy Review, and First Things.