Peter Raven-Hansen

Peter Raven-Hansen teaches national security law, counterterrorism law, and civil procedure and evidence. He is a co-author of the casebooks, National Security Law, Counterterrorism Law, and the widely adopted Civil Procedure: A Coursebook. He is also the co-author of the student hornbook Understanding Civil Procedure, as well as the monographs National Security Law and the Power of the Purse and First Use of Nuclear Weapons.

Before joining The George Washington University Law School faculty in 1980, Professor Raven-Hansen was in private practice with the firm of Hogan & Hartson in Washington, DC, and worked as a senior economic analyst with Abt Associates, Inc., in Cambridge, MA. He currently assists in civil litigation under the Antiterrorism Act and has appeared in a variety of U.S. and international forums as an expert witness on national security and related civil procedure issues.

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