Mitt Regan

Professor of Jurisprudence - Georgetown University

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Washington DC 20001

Mitt Regan is the McDevitt Professor of Jurisprudence at Georgetown University Law Center, where he also serves as Director of the Center on Ethics and the Legal Profession and Coordinator of the Program on Law, Ethics, and International Security, with research interests spanning international law, national security, international human rights, legal ethics, the legal profession, the rule of law, and ethical issues in artificial intelligence. Through his Center, he leads an annual Law Firm General Counsel Workshop in partnership with Legal Management Resources, and he serves on the board of Lawyers Defending American Democracy, a non-partisan organization for which he helps coordinate amicus briefs. He has contributed to major interdisciplinary international projects on national security, including initiatives on cumulative civilian harm in war, intelligence ethics and accountability, the redesign of security agencies in liberal democracies, and split-second ethical decision-making in combat, and he has worked with the Atrocity Crimes Advisory Group to support the Ukraine Prosecutor General’s Office in developing war crimes cases arising from Russia’s 2022 full-scale invasion. His scholarship on national security includes Drone Strike: Analyzing the Impacts of Targeted Killing (2022) and several co-edited volumes on hybrid threats, asymmetric conflict, and intelligence ethics, while his work on legal ethics encompasses BigLaw: Money and Meaning in the Modern Law Firm, Eat What You Kill, Confidence Games, and widely used casebooks on professional responsibility and corporate practice. Before joining Georgetown, Regan was an associate at Davis Polk and Wardwell and clerked for then-Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and for Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. on the U.S. Supreme Court.