David Koplow

David A. Koplow is the Scott K. Ginsburg Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C., where he has been on the faculty since 1981. His primary fields for teaching and scholarship involve public international law and national security law, with a particular emphasis upon arms control, non-proliferation, outer space, and counterterrorism. He has published six books and numerous law review articles regarding treaty negotiation, verification, and implementation, and regarding the intersection between international legal standards and U.S. constitutional law. David has served in government as Attorney-Advisor, and as Special Assistant to the Director, at the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency from 1978 to 1981; as Deputy General Counsel for International Affairs at the U.S. Department of Defense from 1997 to 1999; as Special Counsel for Arms Control to the General Counsel of the Department of Defense from 2009 to 2011; and as a consultant to NASA 2017-19. He is a graduate of Harvard College and the Yale Law School and was a Rhodes Scholar.