Tom McSorley

General Counsel, NATO - Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic (DIANA)

Tom McSorley is currently the General Counsel at NATO – Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic (DIANA).

is currentlyTom McSorley is a 2012 graduate of Georgetown University Law Center and a two-time alumnus of Georgetown’s National Security Crisis Law Simulation, where he has twice participated as the mayor of a major American city having a very bad day.

After law school, Tom clerked for the Hon. Catherine C. Blake on the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland in Baltimore.

Tom has spent six years as an associate and senior associate at Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP in the firm’s National Security practice where he advised clients on federal laws and regulations related to information security, electronic surveillance, data privacy, and international trade. Tom also spent two years as counsel at SpaceX focused on export controls and information security.

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 Director, Center on National Security

David Koplow

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

Mary B. DeRosa

Professor from Practice & Director, Center on National Security

The latest from the center

Defense Policy

Hard Cash and Easy Money: Funding Authority for Security Force Assistance Brigades

Defense Policy

One China Reality Check: The Manipulation of Risk and the Myth of Strategic Ambiguity

Book Reviews

The Legitimacy of Drone Warfare: Evaluating Public Perceptions

Foreign Policy

Reversing a Sunset: The Legality of Retroactively Enforcing Limitations Periods Extensions

Defense Policy

Trump and NATO: Will NATO Survive Under a Second Trump Administration?

Human Rights

Shadows of Exploitation: Unveiling the Role of Women and Children in the Terrorism-Trafficking Nexus

Foreign PolicyInternational Law

Promoting Strong Arctic Governance and Ensuring an Aspirational Marine Resources Treaty’s Effectiveness: The Case of the Agreement to Prevent Unregulated High Seas Fisheries in the Central Arctic Ocean

CybercrimeCyberespionage

Zero-Day Delivery: Hacking Risks and the Use of Machine Learning for Military Logistics

Defense PolicyEmerging Technology

National Security and Competition: How Courts Evaluate National Security When Assessing a Merger

Defense PolicyEmerging Technology

Should the DoD Go Marching-in? US Innovation Leadership & DoD IP Rights

Foreign PolicyInternational Law

From Treaties to Tweets: The (In)Formality of War Termination

Foreign PolicyInternational Law

The Role of Regulatory Frameworks in Balancing Between National Security and Competition in LEO Satellite Market

Human RightsInternational Law

The ICC and Environmental Protection: Prosecuting Environmental War Crimes in Ukraine

Defense Policy

Exploring the Military’s Medical Standards in the Context of Low Recruitment Numbers

Book ReviewsDefense Policy

Will Soper Responds to Tyler Smotherman’s Review of “Greytown Is No More!”

Defense PolicyHuman Rights

Commissions Impossible: How Can Future Military Commissions Avoid the Failures of Guantanamo?