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Samuel J. Rascoff is a Professor of Law at New York University School of Law and serves as Faculty Director of the Reiss Center on Law and Security. He holds academic appointments in national security law, cybersecurity strategy, and legal frameworks for intelligence operations. Previously, he served as Director of Intelligence Analysis at the New York City Police Department, where he led counterterrorism threat assessment teams. His research focuses on intelligence oversight, presidential authority in security matters, and the intersection of law with counterterrorism strategy.
Education includes Harvard College (summa cum laude), Oxford (first-class honors), and Yale Law School. He clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter and Judge Pierre N. Leval of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. His career also includes service in Iraq with the Coalition Provisional Authority and roles at Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz. He teaches courses on cybersecurity law, intelligence ethics, and the regulatory state.
Rascoff’s scholarship emphasizes institutional design for intelligence oversight, new deterrence frameworks, and legal challenges in national security. His book Global Intelligence Oversight: Governing Security in the Twenty-First Century (Oxford UP, 2016) explores modern intelligence governance structures. He has received the Carnegie Scholar award (2009) for his contributions to social science research.
