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Artin Afkhami

Artin Afkhami (@artinafkhami) was Associate Editor at Just Security (2017-18). He received his J.D. from the UCLA School of Law in 2017, where he focused on National Security Law and Constitutional Law. He also holds an M.A. in Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School at Tufts University and a B.A. in Middle East Studies from UC Berkeley. Before graduate school, Artin served as an Iran Researcher for the New York Times and a Research Associate at Princeton University’s Iran Data Portal. He has also previously worked at the California Court of Appeal (Justice Dennis Perluss), the ACLU National Security Project, Legal Services of Northern California, and the Office of Senator Dianne Feinstein.

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Don McGahn, general counsel for the Trump transition team, gets into an elevator in the lobby at Trump Tower, November 15, 2016 in New York City.
U.S. Vice President Mike Pence speaks at a podium as Mike Pompeo and wife Susan Pompeo stand next to him during a swearing in ceremony for Pompeo to become CIA Director at Eisenhower Executive Office Building January 23, 2017 in Washington, DC.
Retired Lieutenant General Michael Flynn, U.S. national security advisor, arrives to a swearing in ceremony of White House senior staff in the East Room of the White House on January 22, 2017 in Washington, DC.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions testifies during a hearing before the House Judiciary Committee November 14, 2017 in Washington, DC.
A radioactive warning sign hangs on fencing around the Anfield's Shootaring Canyon Uranium Mill on October 27, 2017 outside Ticaboo, Utah.
Retired Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn at Trump Tower on December 5, 2016 in New York City.
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill October 18, 2017 in Washington, DC.
Former campaign manager for U.S. President Donald Trump, Paul Manafort, smiles as he leaves U.S. District Court after pleading not guilty following his indictment on federal charges on October 30, 2017 in Washington, DC.
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U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill October 18, 2017 in Washington, DC.

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