Jeffrey Kahn

Jeffrey Kahn is an assistant professor of law at the SMU Law School, where he teaches and writes on American constitutional law, Russian law, human rights, and counterterrorism.  He is also a Colin Powell Fellow of the John Goodwin Tower Center for Political Studies at SMU and a member of the founding Advisory Board for the Embrey Human Rights Education Program.  He received his bachelor’s degree from Yale University, his master’s and doctoral degrees from Oxford University, and his law degree from the University of Michigan.  Following graduation, he was a law clerk to the Honorable Thomas P. Griesa of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.  He served as a trial attorney in the Civil Division of the United States Department of Justice from October 2003 until April 2006.