'The Double Black Box'

ASHLEY DEEKS, a Miller Center faculty senior fellow, is the Class of 1948 Scholarly Research Professor at the University of Virginia Law School. She is an elected member of the American Law Institute, a member of the State Department’s Advisory Committee on International Law, and a contributing editor to the Lawfare blog. From 2021 to 2022, Deeks served as special assistant to President Joe Biden, White House associate counsel, and deputy legal advisor to the National Security Council. Before joining UVA, Deeks served for ten years in the U.S. State Department’s Office of the Legal Adviser, including as the embassy legal adviser at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad during Iraq’s constitutional negotiations.