H. Thomas Byron

Adjunct Professor of Law

Professor Byron is an Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown Law and Rules Committee Chief Counsel with the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. He served for 25 years with the Appellate Staff, Civil Division, of the U.S. Department of Justice, as an appellate litigator and supervisory attorney, most recently as Senior Appellate Counsel for National Security. Previously, he was an associate with the firm of Mayer, Brown, & Platt, and law clerk to the Honorable Carolyn Dineen King, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. He received his J.D, with honors, from the University of Chicago.

Meet our community

Anupam Chander

Scott K. Ginsburg Professor of Law and Technology

Phil Schrag

Delaney Family Professor of Public Interest Law

Paul Ohm

Professor of Law; Chief Data Officer

Mary McCord

Visiting Professor of Law

Laura K. Donohue

Scott K. Ginsburg Professor of Law and National Security & Director, Center on National Security

Steve Vladeck

Agnes Williams Sesquicentennial Professor of Federal Courts

Carlos Manuel Vazquez

The Scott K. Ginsburg Professor of Law

Greg Shaffer

Scott K. Ginsburg Professor of International Law

Neal Katyal

Paul and Patricia Saunders Professor of National Security Law

Jennifer Hillman

Professor from Practice

Kathleen Claussen

Professor of Law

Rosa Brooks

Scott K. Ginsburg Chair in Law and Policy

Martin S. Lederman

Martin S. Lederman

Professor from Practice

Jane E. Stromseth

Francis Cabell Brown Professor of International Law

Julie Cohen

Julie Cohen

Mark Claster Mamolen Professor of Law and Technology

Filippo Lancieri

Associate Professor of Law

Matt Blaze

Professor of Law

Mitt Regan

Professor of Law

David Luban

Distinguished University Professor and Professor of Law & Philosophy, and Assistant Director, Center on National Security

David Koplow

Scott K. Ginsburg Professor of Law & Assistant Director, Center on National Security

Mary B. DeRosa

Professor from Practice & Director, Center on National Security

The latest from the center

Laws of War

Neutrality Renewed

Military Law

The Role of the Judge Advocates General and of Judge Advocates: A Primer

Book Reviews

Privatization and the National Security Constitution Review of The National Security Constitution in the 21st Century, by Harold Hongju Koh

Student NoteNational Security & Homeland Security

Information Supply-Chain Risk Management for the Intelligence Community’s Procurement of Commercially Available Information

Geopolitical

Export Controls Under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade: An Analysis of the United States-China Semiconductor Dispute at the World Trade Organization

National Security & Homeland Security

How States Respond to Foreign Surveillance via Social Media: Bans, Breakups, and Beyond

Terrorism and Counterterrorism

Campus Protests: Student Advocacy in Support of a “Foreign Terrorist Organization”

Executive Autocracy Versus Professional Ethics

Trump’s Second Term: The Personalization of the Military and Implications for National Security

The War on Drugs and Trump’s Domestic Uses of the Military

When Values No Longer Matter: America’s Fading Soft Power

The Transfer of Detained Persons to the United States Military: Trust but Verify

The “Tepid Legality” of Hegseth’s Department of Defense

Reckless, Shameless, and Blameless: Fixing the Appointed National Security Official’s Character and Fitness Problem

The Dangers and Limits of Government by Emergency Rule

Invoking Threats from Abroad in New Efforts to Constrict U.S. Citizenship