Jennifer C. Daskal (born 1972) is a Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the Tech, Law, Security Program at the
Washington College of Law at
American University
The American University (AU or American) is a private federally chartered research university in Washington, D.C. Its main campus spans 90 acres (36 ha) on Ward Circle, mostly in the Spring Valley neighborhood of Northwest D.C. AU was charte ...
. Her work focuses on terrorism, national security and criminal law. She previously served as senior counsel for
Human Rights Watch, focusing on similar issues. She also worked in the Department of Justice during the Obama administration, which was seeking to prosecute terror suspects through the criminal justice system instead of through military tribunals.
Career
A graduate of
Harvard Law School
Harvard Law School (Harvard Law or HLS) is the law school of Harvard University, a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1817, it is the oldest continuously operating law school in the United States.
Each class ...
,
Cambridge and
Brown University
Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providenc ...
and a
Marshall Scholar,.
Daskal garnered attention after traveling to the countries to which
Guantanamo detainees have been released, to verify that those countries are abiding by the undertakings they made to the US Government to respect the returned detainees' human rights.
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Currently, Daskal is a Professor of Law at American University.
In April of 2022, Daskal was announced as a member of the
Disinformation Governance Board for the
United States Department of Homeland Security.
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Living people
Harvard Law School alumni
Brown University alumni
1972 births
Place of birth missing (living people)
Alumni of the University of Cambridge
Marshall Scholars