Major Salahudin Ali is a commissioned Marine Corps Officer and Judge Advocate specializing in the intersection of law & technology. He currently serves as an Associate General Counsel at the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), having previously been assigned as the Staff Judge Advocate for the Naval Amphibious Force, Task Force 51/5th Marine Expeditionary Brigade and U.S. Central Command, Joint Task Force-Crises Response.

Prior to his DIA assignment, Major Ali was the Marine Corps’ first National Fellow (law) for the Intelligence Community at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, where he served as an Assistant General Counsel. His previous assignments include time as a Forward-deployed Staff Judge Advocate for the U.S. Joint Special Operations Command and Headquarters Marine Corps as a Judge Advocate assigned to the Office of the Staff Judge Advocate and the Office of Counsel for the Commandant of the Marine Corps.

Major Ali’s career has also included time as a Regimental Command Judge Advocate and the Law Center-National Capital (Senior Legal Assistance Attorney, Civil Law Officer, and military prosecutor. Major Ali’s civilian practice experience includes time as an Assistant District Attorney in Washington County, Oregon, and a judicial clerk for the Hon. Richard C. Baldwin (Ret).

Major Ali holds a J.D. from Lewis & Clark Law School (2011) and an LL.M.  (2018) in Intellectual Property Law & Technology from George Mason’s Scalia School of Law, focusing on Cybersecurity & Intelligence Law.  He is currently pursuing a graduate degree in Intelligence Analysis at Johns Hopkins University.

Major Ali regularly publishes articles on law & technology, with notable publications appearing in the National Security Law Journal, The George Mason Civil Rights Law Journal, Santa Clara Journal of International Law, the Southern Methodist University Science and Technology Law Review, and the Catholic University of America’s Journal of Law & Technology. He also contributes to the NSI’s SCIF blog.

Major Salahudin Ali is currently an Adjunct Professor of Law at George Mason’s Scalia School of Law.

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