Adjunct Professor of Law

Professor Daniel Gallington is an Adjunct Professor at the Illinois College of Law, where he teaches National Security Law. He also serves on the Advisory Board of the University of Illinois’ Critical Infrastructure Resilience Institute (CIRI) a Department of Homeland Security Center of Excellence. During more than two decades of service in the United States Air Force and Department of Defense, Prof. Gallington served in a number of senior leadership positions. He helped to coordinate US responses to the 9/11 attacks as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Territorial Security and, subsequently, as Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict (SOLIC). He has also held positions in the Office of the Secretary of Defense and Defense Policy Board. During the 1990’s Prof. Gallington was General Counsel for the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and represented the Department of Justice on the National Security Council (NSC) as that agency’s Deputy Counsel for Intelligence. During the Cold War, he represented the Office of the Secretary of Defense in arms control talks with the Soviet Union and other states. Since his retirement from the military, Prof. Gallington has led a number of projects at  organizations like the George C. Marshall Institute and the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies, and published numerous pieces in media outlets including US News and World Report and the Washington Times. He is a two-time (B.S. and J.D.) graduate of the University of Illinois and holds an L.L.M. in international law from the University of Michigan.