Elizabeth serves as Assistant Professor of Law at Delaware Law School, and her scholarship is focused on critically interrogating national security legal structures and institutions, examining ways in which they have the effect of servicing expansive U.S. militarism and hegemony, assessing how they intersect with protected rights and liberties, and exploring both the power and the peril inherent in the law as a tool of accountability for abuses in the name of security. Previously, Elizabeth taught remotely as an adjunct professor of counterterrorism law at the University of New Hampshire’s Franklin Pierce School of Law.
Before embracing full-time teaching and scholarship, Elizabeth spent more than a decade as a public interest lobbyist in Washington, D.C. She led advocacy and communications work both in-house and as a consultant at organizations like Public Citizen, Brown University’s Costs of War Project, Indivisible, Amnesty International USA, the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, Charity and Security Network, and the Friends Committee on National Legislation (Quakers). Her analysis has been featured in numerous media outlets including The New York Times, USA Today, Politico, Reuters, and The Guardian. She has also published several original works of scholarship in prominent law journals.
Elizabeth holds an LL.M. from Georgetown University Law Center in National Security Law with a Certificate in International Human Rights Law. She is a member of the North Carolina State Bar and received her Juris Doctor from Regent University School of Law. Her bachelor’s degree is in public relations and Spanish from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
