
Corin Stone Adjunct Associate Professor WCL Adjunct Faculty
- Bio
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Corin R. Stone is a Scholar-in-Residence at the Washington College of Law. She is conducting research, developing programming, and contributing to courses focused on the intersection between the law, national security, technology, and privacy. She is also a senior officer with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), where until August, 2020, she served as the Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Strategy & Engagement. In that capacity, Ms. Stone led a team that positioned the Intelligence Community to achieve its future vision by leading transformative initiatives and cutting-edge research and development; supporting and spurring innovation; re-imagining data management in the digital age; establishing clear policy and direction; and actively engaging with overseers and the public. Ms. Stone helped stand-up the ODNI in 2005 and has served in a number of key leadership roles, including as the first Principal Deputy General Counsel from 2005-2010. Ms. Stone also served on joint duty assignment as the Executive Director for the National Security Agency (NSA) from 2014-2017, working with NSA’s Director and Deputy Director to provide leadership in all areas of the enterprise and to represent NSA’s interests both internally and externally. Ms. Stone began her career in federal service as a Law Clerk to the Honorable Robert E. Keeton, District Judge on the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. She then moved to the U.S. Department of State, where she was an attorney adviser in the Office of the Legal Adviser and served for eight months in Iraq, first as an Associate General Counsel in the Coalition Provisional Authority, and then as the first Legal Adviser to Ambassador Negroponte and the new U.S. Embassy in Baghdad. While at the State Department, Ms. Stone also worked as an attorney-adviser for the Department’s Bureau of Oceans, International Environmental and Scientific Affairs, as the special assistant to Legal Adviser William H. Taft, IV, and in the Department’s legal office handling international claims and investment disputes, where she represented the U.S. Government before the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal in The Hague. Prior to her federal service, Ms. Stone practiced commercial litigation at Pepper Hamilton, LLP, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She also worked part time for the Hague Conference on Private International Law during the negotiations of the Special Commission on the Question of Jurisdiction, Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments, as well as the Special Commission on General Affairs and Policy of the Conference.
- Areas of Specialization
- National Security Law
- Privacy Law
- Technology Law
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