Roger Hertog Program on Law and National Security | Columbia Law School

Faculty

Faculty Chairs

Philip Bobbitt is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.  He has served as Associate Counsel to the President, the Counselor on International Law at the State Department, Legal Counsel to the Senate Iran-Contra Committee, and Senior Director at the National Security Council.  He has published seven books, most recently the New York Times-reviewed Terror and Consent.

Trevor Morrison recently served in the White House as an Associate Counsel to President Obama on national security issues. He previously served as a Bristow Fellow in the U.S. Justice Department's Office of the Solicitor General, and an attorney-advisor in the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel. He is a member of the State Department's Advisory Committee on International Law.
 

Matthew Waxman served in senior positions at the U.S. State Department, Department of Defense and National Security Council before joining the Columbia Law faculty. He was a Fulbright Scholar to the United Kingdom, where he studied international relations. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, where he also serves as Adjunct Senior Fellow for Law & Foreign Policy.

Full-Time Faculty

Sarah Cleveland s a noted expert in international law and the constitutional law of U.S. foreign relations, with particular interests in the status of international law in U.S. domestic law, international humanitarian law, human rights law, and the constitutional law of U.S. foreign relations. From 2009 to 2011, she served as the Counselor on International Law to the Legal Adviser at the U.S. Department of State.

Daniel Richman is an expert in criminal procedure, evidence, and federal criminal law.  He is the former Chief Appellate Attorney and Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York.  He has served in an advisory capacity for the Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General, and as a peer reviewer for the National Institute of Justice.

Adjunct Faculty

Richard B. Zabel is currently the Chief of the Criminal Division at the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York. From 1999 until 2009, prior to rejoining the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Mr. Zabel was a partner at the law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP where he was co-head of the firmwide litigation practice. His practice focused on white-collar criminal defense, SEC investigations, corporate internal investigations, complex civil litigation, and appeals.

Lee Gelernt has been an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union since 1992 and currently holds the position of Deputy Director of the ACLU’s national Immigrants’ Rights Project, where he works on immigration and national security issues.

David Raskin is an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of New York, where he worked on complicated terrorism cases. He will co-teach with Richard Zabel to offer a unique course that will expose students to myriad considerations that go into national security investigations and prosecutions.

Jeong-Ho Roh is the Director of the Center for Korean Legal Studies.

Gabor Rona is the International Legal Director of Human Rights First. He advises Human Rights First programs on questions of international law and coordinates international human rights litigation.

Steven Shapiro is the Legal Director of the American Civil Liberties Union, the nation's oldest and largest civil liberties organization. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Human Rights First and the Policy Committee of Human Rights Watch, as well as the Advisory Committees of the U.S. Program and Asia Program of Human Rights Watch.