Salahudin Ali

Biographical Sketch

Lieutenant Colonel Salahudin Ali is a commissioned Marine Corps Officer and Judge Advocate specializing in the intersection of law & technology. He currently serves as Staff Judge Advocate for Marine Air Station Iwakuni, Japan, having previously served as an Associate General Counsel at the Department of Defense, and before that had been assigned as the Staff Judge Advocate for the Naval Amphibious Force, Task Force 51/5th Marine Expeditionary Brigade and U.S. Central Command, Joint Task Force-Crises Response.

Prior to his DIA assignment, Lieutenant Colonel Ali was the Marine Corps’ first National Fellow (law) for the Intelligence Community at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, where he served as an Assistant General Counsel. His previous assignments include time as a Forward-deployed Staff Judge Advocate for the U.S. Joint Special Operations Command and Headquarters Marine Corps as a Judge Advocate assigned to the Office of the Staff Judge Advocate and the Office of Counsel for the Commandant of the Marine Corps.

Lieutenant Colonel Ali’s career has also included time as a Regimental Command Judge Advocate and the Law Center-National Capital (Senior Legal Assistance Attorney, Civil Law Officer, and military prosecutor). Lieutenant Colonel Ali’s civilian practice experience includes time as an Assistant District Attorney in Washington County, Oregon and a judicial clerk for the Hon. Richard C. Baldwin (Ret).

Lieutenant Colonel Ali holds a JD from Lewis & Clark Law School (2011) and an LLM (2018) in Intellectual Property Law & Technology from George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School, focusing on Cybersecurity & Intelligence Law. He is currently pursuing a graduate degree in Intelligence Analysis at Johns Hopkins University.

Lieutenant Colonel Ali regularly publishes articles on law & technology, with notable publications appearing in the National Security Law Journal, The George Mason Civil Rights Law Journal, Santa Clara Journal of International Law, the Southern Methodist University Science and Technology Law Review, and the Catholic University of America’s Journal of Law & Technology. He also contributes to the NSI’s SCIF blog.

Lieutenant Colonel Salahudin Ali is currently an Adjunct Professor of Law at George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School.