Professor Ashley Deeks returned home to the University of Virginia School of Law after a 17-month hiatus to serve as associate counsel and deputy adviser to President Joe Biden`s National Security Council. Another key position is Legal Advisor to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. This position is held by General Richard Gross, who held the very relevant position of Senior Counsel for CENTCOM immediately prior to his appointment. Bobby interviewed General Gross earlier this year for Lawfare. As senior military counsel on the government`s legal team, the president`s lawyer takes the initiative to review the legality of targets. It is very useful to have a basic understanding of international law to understand how the sanctions regime works, to understand the resolution on war powers. But if you have good relationships with your colleagues from other agencies, you can always pick up the phone and call on their expertise. You can call a State Department liaison if it seems that Congress has an interest in knowing whether the International Criminal Court has a role to play in prosecuting war crimes that may occur in Russia. You don`t need to have all this law in mind, but you do need to have good relationships and a good ability to recognize legal issues. At AVC, his research and teaching focuses on international law, national security, intelligence and the law of war. Prior to academia, she spent 10 years in various positions with the U.S. Department of State`s Office of the Legal Counsel, including Deputy Legal Counsel for Politico-Military Affairs, where she worked on issues of the law of armed conflict, use of force, conventional weapons, and the legal framework for conflict with al-Qaeda. John A.
Eisenberg (born 1966/1967) is an American lawyer who served as Deputy Advisor to the President of the United States and Legal Counsel to the United States National Security Council under President Donald Trump. He was chosen by former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn. Early in his career, from 2006 to 2009, he worked at the Department of Justice. [2] The National Security Council is primarily an inter-institutional coordinating body. So you`re trying to give the best advice you can give to senior officials in the NPC and the White House in general. They are less likely to develop the legal analysis themselves; Instead, you are trying to get the wisdom of all interinstitutional general advisers on how to approach a particular problem or what options are legally available. So you coordinate a lot, advise a lot, get people together for meetings. We were very focused on reintroducing this inter-agency legal process when we got there in January 2021. As I understand it, this process fell through under the previous administration.
Together, we helped create documents that would go to the National Security Advisor (Jake Sullivan) to inform the president of his political advice, or they could go to the White House adviser (then Dana Remus) to inform the legal advice she gave to the president. Eligibility and Citizenship: It is the Department`s policy to achieve drug-free employment, and individuals selected for employment must be tested for illicit drug use prior to final appointment. Employment also depends on the completion and satisfactory assessment of a background investigation. Congress generally prohibits agencies from employing non-citizens in the United States, with a few narrow exceptions set forth in the annual appropriations act (see www.usajobs.gov/Help/working-in-government/non-citizens/). According to DOJ guidelines, only U.S. citizens are eligible for employment at the Executive Office for Immigration Review, U.S. Trustee Offices, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Unless otherwise stated in a specific job posting, non-U.S.
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