Gary Corn

Gary Corn is a seasoned legal advisor, experienced litigator, and proven counselor and advocate on strategic-level national security law and policy; international law and engagement; cybersecurity and privacy; cyber insurance; intelligence law; felony prosecution; federal civil litigation; and supervision, training, and management of legal service organizations. 

Gary advises clients on cybersecurity and national security-related issues, drawing on 26 years on active duty in the US Army as a military attorney practicing national security law at the highest levels within the Department of Defense, retiring with the rank of colonel. His final five years he served as the Staff Judge Advocate (General Counsel) to US Cyber Command. During his military career, Gary served in various positions at the brigade, division, and corps level, including multiple times as a military prosecutor, civil litigator, and operational law attorney. His assignments include serving as a Deputy Legal Counsel to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Operational Law Branch Chief in the Office of the Judge Advocate General of the Army, the Staff Judge Advocate to U.S. Army South, a Special Assistant United States Attorney in the District of Columbia, and on deployment as the Chief of International Law for Combined Forces Command in Afghanistan.

Gary is the director of the Technology, Law & Security Program at American University’s Washington College of Law, where he also teaches courses on cyber and national security law and the law of armed conflict. Gary previously held senior fellow positions at both the US Army Cyber Institute and with the Cybersecurity and Emerging Threats division at the R Street Institute.

As a recognized practitioner on the intersection of cyber and other emerging technologies with national security law and policy, Gary is a frequent, and highly-sought out speaker at international and national conferences. He has published numerous articles, book chapters, and blog posts, including in the American Journal of International Law, The Temple International and Comparative Law Journal, the Texas International Law Journal, the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, and the Lieber Institute’s Articles of War.  He has contributed chapters to several Oxford University Press books and is a co-author of National Security Law and the Constitution (Wolters Kluwer)(2020).