Starting in Fall 2022, GW Law will offer courses in the National Security, Cybersecurity, and Foreign Relations Law Program at the U.S. Army Advocacy Center, Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Under the leadership of Associate Dean Lisa M. Schenck, the Law School is undertaking this effort to strengthen the program’s ties to the military and intelligence communities and make it easier for their exceptionally qualified attorneys to earn specialized Master of Laws (LLM) degrees. Practitioners in the intelligence community—candidates who have experience in National Security law, but not a law degree—would be ideally suited for the Master of Studies in Law (MSL) degree program. Only students who are authorized access to Fort Belvoir (e.g., Judge Advocates, their spouses, Department of the Army Civilians, and holders of DoD identification cards) may enroll in these course offerings. Students must apply and be admitted to the GW Law LLM or MSL program, with an application deadline of August 1 for Fall 2022 and December 5 for Spring 2023. Once admitted, students can enroll in courses at Fort Belvoir, at the main Law School campus, or online and could complete a 24-credit LLM degree within two academic years by enrolling only in the Fort Belvoir courses. MSL candidates could also complete a degree program within two academic years by completing additional required courses online.
Classes will be scheduled 5:30 to 7:30 pm three nights a week next academic year and courses will be taught by the same professors who teach classes on the GW Law campus. For Fall 2022, GW Law will offer Nuclear Nonproliferation Law and Policy (2 credits), National Security Law (2 credits), and Crisis and Legal Controversy in the CIA (2 credits). In Spring 2023, GW Law plans on offering Disinformation and National Security: Legal Approaches (2 credits), and Problems Trying Terrorists in Article III Courts (2 credits). For Summer Session 2023, Domestic Terrorism (2 credits) and National Security Law Seminar: Internal Investigations and the Office of the IG (2 credits) are planned to be offered at Fort Belvoir.
For more information contact the Associate Dean for National Security, Cybersecurity, and Foreign Relations Law, Lisa Schenck, at [email protected] or the Assistant Dean for Graduate and International Programs, Shehernaz Joshi, for MSL and LLM admissions at [email protected].