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Prof. Nathan A. Sales

Assistant Professor of Law, George Mason University School of Law

Nathan A. Sales is Assistant Professor of Law at the George Mason University School of Law. He teaches National Security Law and Administrative Law.

Before coming to George Mason, Sales was Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy Development at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. He previously served as Counsel, then Senior Counsel, in the Office of Legal Policy at the U.S. Department of Justice. In 2002, he received the Attorney General's Award for Exceptional Service, the Justice Department's highest honor, for his role in drafting the USA PATRIOT Act.

Professor Sales was graduated from Duke Law School magna cum laude, where he joined the Order of the Coif and was Research Editor of the Duke Law Journal. He clerked for the Honorable David B. Sentelle of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. From 2003 through 2005, he practiced at the Washington, D.C. law firm of Wiley Rein & Fielding. He was John M. Olin Fellow at the Georgetown University Law Center in 2005 and 2006.

An Ohio native, Sales is a member of the Virginia and District of Columbia bars.


Education

  • A.B., Miami University
  • J.D., Duke University

Publications

The War-on-Terror Government - Event Audio/Video
2011 National Lawyers Convention
November 11, 2011
Preventing Attacks through Surveillance and Intelligence - Event Audio/Video
International & National Security Law Practice Group
May 28, 2009

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