Matthew Kahn is an Associate Editor at Lawfare and a Research Assistant in Governance Studies focusing on national security law at the Brookings Institution. Previously, he was a research assistant at the Center on Privacy and Technology at Georgetown Law and a research intern at the Network Science Initiative at the National Journal. He received a bachelor's degree in Government from Georgetown University in 2017.
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