Jennifer C. Daskal (born 1972) is a professor of law and faculty director of the Tech, Law, Security Program at the

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Her work focuses on terrorism, national security, and criminal law. She previously served as senior counsel for

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, where she focused on similar issues. She also worked in the

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during the

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, which was seeking to prosecute terror suspects through the criminal justice system instead of through military tribunals.

Career

A graduate of

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, the

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, and

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and a

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, Daskal garnered attention after traveling to the countries to which

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s had been released to verify that those countries were abiding by the undertakings they made to the

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to respect the returned detainees' human rights. Daskal is a professor of law at

. In April 2022, Daskal was announced as a member of the

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for the

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. Daskal co-led the

immediately after it was constituted, and Daskal co-developed the Disinformation Governance Board Charter.

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