Join the Strauss Center for International Security and Law, the Texas Space Law and Policy Society, and the Longhorn Airmen for a talk on “Navigating National Security and Space Law” with Michael Sinclair, Senior Counsel, Office of General Counsel for Intelligence and Security at the Department of War. Moderated by Strauss Center Space Law Program Lead and UT Law Professor Caryn Schenewerk, she’ll discuss with a U.S. Dept. of War legal expert how current national security legal issues, including engagement with the commercial space sector, achieve U.S. national security interests.
Lunch will be served. Garage parking is available for a fee at the Manor Garage, the Brazos Garage, and the San Jacinto Garage. Parking will not be validated.
Biography
Michael Sinclair is senior counsel at the Department of War, (DoW) Office of General Counsel (OGC) (Intelligence & Security). He is responsible for the intelligence and operations practice area and has extensive experience with legal issues involving space/counter-space and sensitive space systems; intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance; electromagnetic warfare; geospatial intelligence; and measurement & signature intelligence.
Professor Sinclair worked at the Department of Air Force (DAF), OGC as associate general counsel for aviation and space prior to his work with DoW OGC. He is a retired Coast Guard judge advocate with over 25 years of mixed operational and legal experience including command afloat, as the Coast Guard’s legislative counsel at Coast Guard Congressional Affairs, and details to the Department of Homeland Security OGC (Operations and Enforcement Division), the National Security Council, and as a fellow at the Brookings Institution. He is a non-resident senior fellow for space security at the Atlantic Council, Scowcroft Center for National Security, Forward Defense and a non-resident scholar at George Washington University’s Space Policy Institute.
Professor Sinclair has been teaching at GW Law since 2020 and currently teaches International Law in Domestic Courts, National Security Law, and Upper Level Writing.