National Security Law

Having grown up in chaos, Logan Lathrop ’25 credits the military with setting him on a technology-related litigation career path.

Matthew Pekoske, a lieutenant commander with the U.S. Coast Guard, is hoping his time catching drug smugglers will translate to stopping cyberattacks.

After a near fatal helicopter crash Rachel Anderson J.D./M.B.A. ’26 is determined to live life to its fullest.

Berkman Klein Center affiliate Asaf Lubin points up the need for a legal framework to govern peacetime intelligence operations.

The director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency reflects on the agency’s challenges, including in North Korea and Iran, as well as Ukraine and Japan.

Former national security official Timothy Edgar says that the government isn’t doing enough to protect classified computer systems.

Rep. Adam Schiff contrasts the recent disclosure of U.S. documents and Russian invasion buildup in a Kennedy School talk on foreign policy and the future of democracy.

From transgender equality to the rights of displaced persons, four Harvard Law students describe their winter-term projects abroad.

Teresa Chen, a 2023 Cravath International Fellow, traveled to Taiwan to undertake research on a recently-enacted national security law and its effect on democracies in the region.

Timothy Edgar, a former national security and intelligence official and lecturer at Harvard Law School, says a full ban of the video-sharing app isn’t likely, but regulation may be needed.

Former Human Rights Watch head Kenneth Roth says that autocrats tend to become more isolated and make poorer decisions as they consolidate power.

National security expert Elena Chachko argues that the Russia's war against Ukraine has given both NATO and the European Union new purpose and energy.

Former Deputy Treasury Secretary Daleep Singh and Federal Reserve Board Member Chistopher Waller debate whether to create a U.S. central bank digital currency.

“Lawyers are supposed to be problem solvers," says Justin Herdman ’01, "and that means identifying problems before they are at your doorstep.”

Professor David B. Wilkins, faculty director of the Center on the Legal Profession at Harvard Law School, recently sat down with Jeh Charles Johnson, a partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP who served as the secretary of Homeland Security from 2013 to 2017 during the Obama Administration.

Elena Chachko’s award-winning scholarship is informed by her work as a former Israeli intelligence analysis officer and diplomat.

As a former top national security official and current adviser to companies in the defense, intelligence, and technology sectors, Michael Leiter ’00 has spent his life assessing threats.