Brian Finucane
Member of the Board of Editors
Brian Finucane (@BCFinucane) is senior adviser with the U.S. Program at the International Crisis Group where he focuses on developing policies and institutional checks to decrease U.S. reliance on military tools in foreign affairs, including through legislative reforms of war powers and counterterrorism authorities.
Prior to joining Crisis Group in 2021, he served for over a decade as an attorney-adviser in the Office of the Legal Adviser at the U.S. Department of State. In that capacity, he advised the U.S. government on legal and policy issues relating to counterterrorism, the use of military force, and partnered military operations.
He is a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Reiss Center on Law and Security at NYU School of Law.
Finucane holds a B.A. in anthropology from Cornell University, a DPhil from Oxford University, and a J.D. from Yale University.
Articles by this author:
The Prohibition on Indiscriminate Attacks: The US Position vs. the DoD Law of War Manual
May 3rd, 2022
Crossing Back Over: Time to Reform Legal Culture and Legal Practice of the “War on Terror”
by Brian Finucane and Stephen Pomper
Sep 10th, 2021