Jennifer C. Daskal (born 1972) is a Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the Tech, Law, Security Program at the

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at American University. Her work focuses on terrorism, national security and criminal law. She previously served as senior counsel for

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, focusing on similar issues. She also worked in the Department of Justice during the Obama administration, which was seeking to prosecute terror suspects through the criminal justice system instead of through military tribunals.

Career

A graduate of Harvard Law School,

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and Brown University and a

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,. Daskal garnered attention after traveling to the countries to which

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s have been released, to verify that those countries are abiding by the undertakings they made to the US Government to respect the returned detainees' human rights. Currently, Daskal is a Professor of Law at American University. In April of 2022, Daskal was announced as a member of the

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for the

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