User:National Security Law Journal

The National Security Law Journal is a law review run by students at the George Mason University School of Law.

History

The National Security Law Journal ("NSLJ") was established in 2012 and will publish its inaugural issue in the spring of 2013. The NSLJ is composed of a Board of Editors featuring select students at the George Mason University School of Law in Arlington, Virginia. The Board's stated mission is to publish innovative, thought-provoking issues on relevant topics in the field of national security law. Each issue will comprise creative, original, ground-breaking articles that appeal to both academia and the practicing legal community. The NSLJ will analyze a myriad of issues including domestic and foreign threats to homeland security, intelligence, diplomacy, and so forth.

Faculty Advisor

The NSLJ is advised by George Mason Law Professor Nathan Sales. Professor Sales was Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy Development at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. He previously served as Counsel, then Senior Counsel, in the Office of Legal Policy at the U.S. Department of Justice. In 2002, he received the Attorney General's Award for Exceptional Service, the Justice Department's highest honor, for his role in drafting the USA PATRIOT Act.

Professor Sales was graduated from Duke Law School magna cum laude, where he joined the Order of the Coif and was Research Editor of the Duke Law Journal. He clerked for the Honorable David B. Sentelle of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. From 2003 through 2005, he practiced at the Washington, D.C. law firm of Wiley Rein & Fielding. He was John M. Olin Fellow at the Georgetown University Law Center in 2005 and 2006.

Membership selection

First-year students, along with second-year and third-year evening students with a minimum 2.5 GPA may enter a competitive write-on to join the NSLJ.The selection process takes into account individual's first-year grades, performance in the write-on competition, Blue Book editing proficiency, and interest in the field of national security law.

Annual symposium

The NSLJ expects to hold a symposium each year devoted to a current national security issue. The NSLJ expects to hold its first symposium in the fall of 2012.