FDD sponsors educational opportunities for mid-career U.S. national security professionals. Alumni of these
programs are not FDD employees and join FDD’s National Security Network (NSN).
National Security Network Participant
National Security Network Participant
Yishai Schwartz
Second Circuit Court of Appeals
Biography
Last updated: Apr 29, 2015
Yishai Schwartz is an Associate Editor at Lawfare, the Brookings Institution’s national security law resource. Previously, Yishai was a reporter-researcher at The New Republic, where he authored dozens of articles on legal affairs, national security, and the Middle East. He has been a full-time research fellow with the Tikvah Fund, where he focused on ethics in war and philosophies of legal interpretation, and interned with the New Orleans Public Defenders. He holds a BA from Yale with majors in philosophy and religious studies.