Gary Corn

Adjunct Senior Fellow, Technology and National Security Program

Gary Corn is the director of the Technology, Law & Security Program and an adjunct professor of cyber and national security law and the law of armed conflict at the American University Washington College of Law. A recognized expert on the intersection of cyber and national security law and policy, Corn joined TLS after serving twenty-six years on active duty in the U.S. Army as a military attorney. His final five years he served as the Staff Judge Advocate (General Counsel) to U.S. Cyber Command. Professor Corn is a frequent, and highly-sought out speaker at international and national conferences and has published numerous articles, book chapters, and blog posts, including in the American Journal of International Law, The Temple International and Comparative Law Journal, the Texas International Law Journal, the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, on Lawfare, Just Security, the Cipher Brief, and the Lieber Institute’s Articles of War. He has contributed chapters to several Oxford University Press books and is a co-author of National Security Law and the Constitution (Wolters Kluwer)(2020). Corn is the founder and principal of Jus Novus Consulting, LLC, senior advisor at Steptoe, a member of the ABA Standing Committee on Law & National Security, a member of the editorial board of the Georgetown Journal of National Security Law and Policy, an Advisory Board Director for the Cyber Security Forum Initiative, a Senior Fellow at the Lieber Institute for Law & Land Warfare, an advisor to the International Code of Conduct Association, and a former Senior Fellow at the Army Cyber Institute. Corn received a JD from the George Washington University, a BA in International Relations from Bucknell University, an LLM from the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center and School, and an MA in National Security Studies from the United States Army War College. He is also a graduate of the Escola de Comando e Estado Maior do Exército do Brasil (Command and General Staff College of the Brazilian Army).


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