Milena Sterio is the James A. Thomas Distinguished Professor of Law at Cleveland State University’s Cleveland-Marshall College of Law.

Rodrigo Pérez-Alonso is an LL.M. candidate in National Security & Cybersecurity Law at GW Law. He is a columnist for El Economista in Mexico and a former member of the Mexican Congress. He previously ser...

Mitchell Gallagher is a Ph.D. candidate in political science at Wayne State University. He employs international relations theory and comparative analysis to examine how sovereignty, recognition, and pow...

Irene Loewenson is a student at Harvard Law School. Before law school, she worked for the independent news outlet Military Times, covering the Marine Corps. Irene can be reached at iloewenson@jd27.law.ha...

Luke J. Schumacher is a Ph.D. student in the University of Virginia's Department of Politics and a non-resident fellow at Columbia Law School's National Security Law Program. A graduate of Stanford Law S...

Jeff Bleich is the general counsel at Anthropic.

Jacob Sharpe was a project lead at the Defense Innovation Board in the Department of Defense. The views expressed are the authors’ and do not represent those of any organization or affiliation.

Thomas N. Burrows retired from the U.S. Department of Justice in February 2025 after working on international cooperation in criminal cases and various crime treaty negotiations for the past 26 years. He...

Fareed Rafiq Zakaria is a journalist and political commentator at CNN and The Washington Post. His most recent book is "Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present."

Tim Schnabel is president of the Law Reform Institute. He previously served as executive director of the Uniform Law Commission and spent a decade as an attorney at the State Department.

Joe Khawam is the Managing Director, Legal and AI Policy at the Law Reform Institute, where he focuses on AI policy, export controls, and national security law. He previously served as an attorney in the...

Nathan Goldschlag is the Director of Research at the Economic Innovation Group.

Bharat Chandar is a postdoctoral fellow at the Stanford Digital Economy Lab.

Mary Hampton Mason spent more than 30 years in the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Division as a senior trial counsel, developing the government’s litigation positions in landmark constitutional, spec...

Tim Wu is a professor at Columbia Law School and fomer White House advisor. His most recent book is "The Age of Extraction: How Tech Platforms Conquered the Economy and Threaten Our Future Prosperity."

Rebecca Qiu is a J.D. candidate at Harvard Law School. She holds a BA in History with Honors from Brown University and an MPhil in Economic and Social History from the University of Cambridge.

Kristijan Barnjak is a J.D. candidate at Georgetown University Law Center specializing in national security law and technology law and policy. He holds a bachelor's degree in political economy, economics...

Joshua Villanueva is an LL.M. candidate in National Security and U.S. Foreign Relations Law at The George Washington University Law School. He earned his J.D. from UC Law San Francisco, an M.A. in Intern...

Bryna Godar is a Staff Attorney with the State Democracy Research Initiative at the University of Wisconsin Law School. Her research focuses on state institutions, state constitutional law, and election ...