Ashley S. Deeks is the Class of 1948 Professor of Scholarly Research in Law at the University of Virginia Law School and a Faculty Senior Fellow at the Miller Center. 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. In 2021-22 she worked as the Deputy Legal Advisor at the National Security Council. Before joining UVA, she served for ten years in the U.S. State Department's Office of the Legal Adviser. She graduated with honors from the University of Chicago Law School and clerked on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals.
