Contributors

Vivian Dong

Vivian Dong is Programs Director at Legal Advocates for Safe Science & Technology (LASST). She previously worked as a litigator at Kellogg, Hansen, Todd, Figel & Frederick in Washington, D.C. She is a gr...

Carolyn Shapiro

Carolyn Shapiro is the founder and co-director of Chicago-Kent College of Law's Institute on the Supreme Court of the United States and former Illinois solicitor general. She earned a B.A. with general a...

Aliya Bhatia

Aliya Bhatia is a senior policy analyst at the Center for Democracy & Technology working on issues related to free expression, online safety, and multilingual access to the internet.

Afreen Akhter

Afreen Akhter is a visiting scholar with the American Statecraft Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where she focuses on economic statecraft. She most recently served as Deputy As...

John Dinkelman

John Dinkelman is the president of the American Foreign Service Association.

Francis Shen

Francis Shen is a professor at the University of Minnesota and expert at the intersection of law and neuroscience, as well as law and artificial intelligence.

Jason R. DiNapoli

Jason DiNapoli is a judge advocate in the U.S. Army and an LL.M. candidate at Harvard Law School where his research interests include artificial intelligence and national security law. The views expresse...

Brian McGrail

Brian McGrail is policy lead and senior counsel at the Center for AI Safety Action Fund and previously served as senior adviser to Deputy Secretary of Commerce Don Graves.

Thomas Colley

Thomas Colley is a senior visiting research fellow in war studies at King’s College London. His book, “Dictating Reality: The Global Battle to Control the News,” co-authored with Martin Moore, was publis...

Marissa Wang

Marissa Wang is the Spring 2026 editorial intern at Lawfare. She studies government, business, and Spanish at Georgetown University.

Matt Blaze

Matt Blaze is the McDevitt Chair of Computer Science and Law at Georgetown University, where he studies problems at the intersection of technology, law, and public policy. His research interests include ...

Mary Clare Jalonick

Mary Clare Jalonick covers Congress for The Associated Press and is the author of "Storm the Capitol."

Ziad Reslan

Ziad Reslan is a member of Product Policy Staff at OpenAI.

James Maroney

Sen. James Maroney represents the 14th District (Milford) in the Connecticut State Senate. Sen. Maroney currently serves as the Co-Chair of the General Law Committee and serves on the inaugural Leadershi...

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Annette Weinke

Annette Weinke is a professor of history at the Friedrich-Schiller-Universitat Jena.

Michael Vandergriff

Michael Vandergriff is a third-year law student at the University of Michigan, where he is currently Managing Notes Editor of the Michigan Journal of International Law. Michael holds an M.A. in Law and D...

Cass Sunstein

Cass R. Sunstein is the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard Law School. He is the founder and director of the Program on Behavioral Economics and Public Policy at Harvard Law School

James Dunne

James Dunne is a J.D. candidate at Georgetown University Law Center in the National Security Law Specialization Program. He holds a B.A. in Urban Studies with a concentration in Political Science from Co...