Cybersecurity Guide named GW Law’s National Security & Cybersecurity Law LLM Program the No. 1 cybersecurity law program for 2025.
GW Law’s National Security & Cybersecurity Law LLM Program, headed by Lisa Schenck, Associate Dean and Program Director for National Security, Cybersecurity, and Foreign Relations Law, offers over 20 courses, including courses on artificial intelligence law and policy, information privacy law, internet law, telecommunications, foreign access to US technology, counterintelligence, intelligence, disinformation, blockchain, and consumer privacy and data protection, among others.
The LLM degree is one of several cybersecurity law degree programs offered at GW Law. The law school also has a National Security & Cybersecurity Law Master of Studies in Law (MSL), a law degree for non-JD degree holders who have practical experience in the fields of national security, law enforcement, defense, cybersecurity, or intelligence. GW Law also offers an MSL in Government Procurement and Cybersecurity Law. LLM and MSL students may complete their degree programs online, on campus, or a combination while taking courses as full-time or part-time students. GW Law also offers a concentration in National Security & Cybersecurity Law for JD students.
"We are very pleased by our ranking in the influential Cybersecurity Guide. Combining cutting-edge course offerings, highly qualified students, superb teaching, and path breaking academic research and scholarship truly makes our National Security & Cybersecurity LLM degree an exceptional program,” Dean Schenck said. “In an era marked by unprecedented cyber threats and evolving national security risks, the legal expertise students develop through this program is indispensable.”
GW Law is one of 25 law schools that offer the National Security & Cybersecurity Law LLM Program, according to Cybersecurity Guide. At GW Law, National Security & Cybersecurity Law students learn from a distinguished faculty who have made significant contributions to research in the areas of cybersecurity, national security, intelligence law, and technology law.
