Danae Askar

Danae Askar (LinkedIn) is Legal Editor for Just Security and a research scholar at NYU School of Law, with a background in international law, U.S. government, and fundamental freedoms.

She was previously an Attorney-Adviser for the Department of State’s Office of the Legal Adviser, where her practice areas included transnational law enforcement and intelligence, cybercrime, and complex treaty negotiations.

Her prior roles include Counsel for a global, pro bono law firm focused on peace processes, international criminal accountability, and post-conflict constitution-drafting. She has provided legal counsel for the UN-led Intra-Syrian Peace Process, advised on ceasefire negotiations in Yemen, supported victim participation in international criminal tribunals, and strengthened the evidence-collection capacity of human rights investigators for criminal accountability purposes.

Askar’s writing has appeared in the Harvard Negotiation Law Review and the ILSA Journal of International and Comparative Law. She has also co-authored reports for Human Rights Watch.

Askar holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School, where she was the Submissions Editor for the Harvard Human Rights Journal, an MSc in Comparative Politics from the London School of Economics, and a B.A. in Comparative Literature from the University of California – Los Angeles.