About
Columbia’s National Security Law Program and University of Texas’s Strauss Center for International Security & Law collaborate closely on a multi-layered fellowship program designed to grow the pipeline of lawyers and legal scholars trained to work across the law and policy divide in relation to national security and foreign affairs. One dimension of the effort focuses on current lawyers in these fields seeking to transit on to the academy. Another focuses on academics or policy practitioners from other disciplines seeking sophisticated exposure to legal training. Another focuses on exceptionally promising students pursuing careers in national security and foreign policy.
Leadership
Matthew Waxman
Robert Chesney
Lectures
Fellows
Eitan Ezra
Columbia Law School
Eitan Ezra is a second-year law student and a fellow in Columbia Law School’s National Security Law Program. His independent research focuses on congressional delegations of national security and foreign affairs powers, and he also supports Professor Matthew Waxman’s Constitutional War Powers research. He is currently a teaching fellow for the course “The United States…
Dore Feith
Columbia Law School
Dore Feith is a student fellow in Columbia Law School’s National Security Law Program researching constitutional war powers and other aspects of law and American grand strategy. Before law school, Dore served as a special assistant to the Deputy Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) from 2019-2020. He also worked on Middle East policy at a…