<span class="vcard">Kristen Eichensehr</span>

Kristen Eichensehr

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Kristen Eichensehr (Twitter) is the David H. Ibbeken ’71 Research Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law and a faculty senior fellow at UVA’s Miller Center. For the 2024-25 academic year, she is the Samuel Williston Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Eichensehr writes and teaches about cybersecurity, foreign relations, national security and international law. Her recent work addresses national security screening of investments, separation of powers in the national security state, the attribution of state-sponsored cyberattacks, and the interaction of the Supreme Court’s major questions doctrine with U.S. international agreements.

Eichensehr is a member of the U.S. State Department’s Advisory Committee on International Law, and she serves as an adviser on the Restatement (Fourth) of the Foreign Relations Law of the United States. She also serves on the editorial boards of Just Security and the Journal of National Security Law & Policy. Eichensehr received the 2018 Mike Lewis Prize for National Security Law Scholarship for her article “Courts, Congress, and the Conduct of Foreign Relations,” and her article on “National Security Creep in Corporate Transactions” (with Cathy Hwang) was selected as one of the best corporate and securities articles of 2023 by Corporate Practice Commentator.

Prior to entering academia, Eichensehr clerked for Justices Sandra Day O’Connor and Sonia Sotomayor of the Supreme Court of the United States and for then-Judge Merrick B. Garland of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. She also served as special assistant to the legal adviser of the U.S. Department of State and practiced at Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C.

 

Articles by this author:

The U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.
The Supreme Court building is shown with a blue sky behind it.
An airplane flies over a line of national flags.
U.S. President Joe Biden stands at a podium and announces new economic sanctions against the Russia government from the East Room of the White House on April 15, 2021 in Washington, DC. A chandelier-type lamp and multiple flags stand behind him.
Trump and Putin’s silhouettes as they walk side-by-side.
People sit and work at large metal desks at U.S. Army Cyber Command headquarters
The dome of the U.S. Capitol Buidling and the US flag.
A laptop displays a message after being infected by a ransomware as part of a worldwide cyberattack on June 27, 2017 in Geldrop.
President Donald Trump holds an executive veto, his first as president, in the Oval Office of the White House March 15, 2019 in Washington, DC.
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