Scalia Law School has assembled a distinctive and interdisciplinary faculty, many of whom hold doctorates in economics, philosophy, political science or related fields. Learn from expert faculty who work on and implement some of the most influential legal and policy frameworks governing our nation’s military and intelligence activities. Scalia Law School faculty have held top positions in government agencies, practiced in some of the largest law firms, testified regularly before Congress, advised Presidents, and clerked for the most prestigious courts. Learn more about some of our impressive faculty members below. For full faculty profiles, visit the Faculty Directory.
Jamil Jaffer
Jamil currently serves as Founder and Executive Director of the National Security Institute and as an Assistant Professor of Law and Director of the National Security Law & Policy Program at the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University, where he teaches classes on counterterrorism, intelligence, surveillance, cybersecurity, and other national security matters, as well as a summer course in Padua, Italy with U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil M. Gorsuch.
Jamil also served as Chief Counsel and Senior Advisor of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Senior Counsel to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and as Associate Counsel to the President in the White House during the George W. Bush administration. Read more.
Darren Dick
Darren M. Dick serves as an Assistant Professor of Law at the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University, where he teaches on intelligence, surveillance, cybersecurity, and other national security matters. Darren is a seasoned national-security professional, with both military and civilian experience – from national-level decision-making in the Congress and Joint Staff to direct operational support in Afghanistan, East Africa, and afloat. Darren led the staff of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, serving as the Staff Director and General Counsel from August 2013 to January 2015 and as Deputy Staff Director and Counsel from January 2011 to August 2013. Darren also served on the staff of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence from 2005 to 2007, first as counsel and later as Deputy Staff Director. Read more.
Giovanna Cinelli
Giovanna M. Cinelli is a partner at Morgan Lewis and the leader of their international trade and national security practice. As a practitioner for more than 25 years, she counsels clients in the defense and high-technology sectors on a broad range of issues affecting national security and export controls, including complex export compliance matters, audits, cross-border due diligence, and export enforcement, both classified and unclassified. Concurrent with her private practice, Giovanna served as a Naval Reserve intelligence officer, where she specialized in Soviet-era submarine platforms, national security, and intelligence issues. Read more.
Dennis Fitzpatrick
Dennis M. Fitzpatrick is an expert in criminal procedure, evidence and federal criminal law. Dennis has served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia since 2005, with the last seven years focused on investigations and trials in the National Security and International Crime Unit. Dennis has investigated and prosecuted matters under the Arms Export Control Act, International Emergency Economic Powers Act, Espionage Act, and various terrorism statutes. He has travelled to the Middle East several times in furtherance of these objectives. Read more.
Evan Wolff
Evan D. Wolff is a partner in Crowell & Moring’s Washington, D.C. office where he is co-chair of the firm’s Privacy & Cybersecurity Group. Prior to joining Crowell, Evan as an advisor to the senior leadership at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and other US government agencies. At DHS, he served as a special assistant to the Assistant Secretary for Infrastructure Protection. Evan has also served on the Sandia National Lab Homeland Security Advisory Board, the US Chamber of Commerce National Security Task Force, as a panel member on the Defense Science Board at the Department of Defense, and as technology vice-chair for the ABA’s Committee on Homeland Security. Read more.