Staff

A Note from the Director

Since 2011, the Center on National Security at Fordham Law (CNS) has built a non-partisan, educational think tank dedicated to providing thought-leaders, policy makers and the public with the tools to better understand today’s national security issues. The Center fosters debate on some of the most complex issues around national security and strives to engage the public on national security policy, terrorism and other emerging threats. The Center’s work includes research, public education, public/private workshops, policy recommendations, and media outreach. CNS produces daily, weekly and yearly publications, convenes hundreds of public and private events on topics of note each year. We host major figures from government, media, the private sector and academia, and are cited or reported on in the press frequently.

Karen J. Greenberg is the Director of the Center on National Security at Fordham Law, an International Studies Fellow at New America, and a permanent member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Greenberg specializes in the intersection between national security policy, the rule of law and human rights. Greenberg is the editor-in-chief of the daily CNS/Soufan Group Morning Brief (2007-present) and the weekly CNS/Aon Cyber Brief (2011-present). Her books include: Subtle Tools: The Dismantling of American Democracy from the War on Terror to Donald Trump (Princeton, 2021), Rogue Justice: The Making of the Security State (Crown, 2016), and The Least Worst Place: Guantanamo’s First 100 Days (Oxford, 2009). Her edited collections include: Reimagining the National Security State: Liberalism on the Brink (Cambridge, 2020), The Torture Papers: the Road to Abu Ghraib (Cambridge, 2005) and The Torture Debate in America (Cambridge, 2005). Her work has been featured in the NYTimes, the Washington Post, the LA Times, the Nation, the Atlantic and many other major news outlets. She is a frequent guest on national television and radio shows.