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Jill Goldenziel

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  • Comment: Wholly fails WP:NPROF and WP:ANYBIO. A lot of fluff that looks impressive, but nothing denotes notability. Reads like a CV in prose form and tons of inherent bias. Linkedin is not a reliable source. Subject's h-index really spells the story. Sulfurboy (talk) 21:51, 31 July 2026 (UTC)


Jill Goldenziel
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Legal scholar

Jill Goldenziel is an American legal scholar who specializes in international law, constitutional law, lawfare, and information warfare. She is a professor at the National Defense University's College of Information and Cyberspace.[1][2] She is known for her scholarship on lawfare, particularly her 2021 Cornell Law Review article "Law as a Battlefield: The U.S., China, and the Global Escalation of Lawfare", whose framework has been adopted by other scholars and in United States military legal publications.[3][4][5] In 2024 she testified before the U.S. House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party on China's use of legal warfare.[1][6] She has participated in United Nations processes on migration, including speaking at the 2018 intergovernmental conference that adopted the Global Compact for Migration and representing academia at the 2022 International Migration Review Forum.[7][8]

Education

Goldenziel received an A.B. from Princeton University, a J.D. from New York University School of Law, and an A.M. and Ph.D. in government from Harvard University.[2][9]

Career

Goldenziel was a Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School, a visiting assistant professor at Boston University School of Law, a lecturer on government and social studies at Harvard College, and a research fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School.[2][10] From 2016 to 2022 she was Professor of International Law and International Relations at Marine Corps University's Command and Staff College.[11][9] She joined the faculty of the National Defense University's College of Information and Cyberspace in 2022.[2][1] She is also a senior affiliated scholar with the Fox Leadership International program at the University of Pennsylvania.[12] In international arbitration, she served as assistant to tribunal president Thomas Buergenthal, former U.S. judge on the International Court of Justice, in the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes case Teinver v. Argentina,[13] in which the tribunal ordered Argentina to pay more than US$320 million for the unlawful expropriation of investments in two airlines.[14]

Goldenziel writes opinion columns on law and national security as a contributor to Forbes and for Bloomberg Opinion.[15][16] She served on the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law from 2023 to 2026,[17] and is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations.[18] In 2022 she received the Serge Lazareff Prize from the NATO Allied Command Operations Office of Legal Affairs for her support of NATO legal services on legal operations and lawfare.[2]

Scholarship

Goldenziel's research addresses lawfare — the use of law as a weapon of war — as well as international refugee and migration law and the law of information warfare.[3][19]

Her article "Law as a Battlefield: The U.S., China, and the Global Escalation of Lawfare", published in the Cornell Law Review in 2021, developed a typology of five categories of lawfare and analyzed how states use domestic and international law as a substitute for or complement to military force.[11] The article has been widely engaged by scholars and practitioners of national security law. Writing in the Naval War College Review, Justin Malzac described Goldenziel as a "preeminent lawfare scholar".[5] A 2025 article in the Harvard National Security Journal relied on the article's definitions and categories in analyzing Chinese lawfare against U.S. military operations,[3] and a 2025 article in the Asian Journal of International Law applied its framework to Vietnam's practice.[20] A 2024 article in The Army Lawyer, the professional journal of the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General's Corps, built its analysis of Chinese lawfare on Goldenziel's five-category typology,[4] and a 2025 article in Indo-Pacific Defense Forum, the professional military magazine published by United States Indo-Pacific Command, used her five types of lawfare — battlefield exploitation, instrumental, proxy, information, and institutional — as its framework for analyzing Chinese legal warfare.[21] Law professor Julian Ku adopted the article's definition of lawfare in testimony before the House Judiciary Committee in 2025,[22] and a 2021 essay on Lawfire, the national security law blog of Charles J. Dunlap Jr. — who coined the modern usage of the term "lawfare" — cited Goldenziel's argument that the United States military needs a comprehensive lawfare strategy.[23] United States Indo-Pacific Command has made the article available through its legal directorate.[24] Goldenziel has also written on lawfare between Russia and Ukraine following the 2022 Russian invasion.[25]

In 2025 Goldenziel and co-authors published "Weapon of the Weak: Lawfare and State Power in the International Court of Justice" in the Harvard International Law Journal, presenting an original dataset of International Court of Justice cases to examine how smaller states use litigation against more powerful ones.[26]

Her earlier scholarship focused on international refugee and migration law, including "The Curse of the Nation-State: Refugees, Migration, and Security in International Law" (2016), which is included in the resource repository of the United Nations Network on Migration,[19] and "Displaced: A Proposal for an International Agreement to Protect Refugees, Migrants, and States" (2017).[27] Her 2019 article "The New Fighting Words?", on U.S. constitutional constraints on responding to information warfare, prompted a direct scholarly response in the National Security Law Journal.[28] Her first law review article, on Blaine Amendments and school choice, has been cited in U.S. state court opinions, including a dissent in the New Mexico Supreme Court's Moses v. Ruszkowski (2018),[29] and in briefs filed in the Supreme Court of the United States in Hile v. Michigan (2024).[30] Her scholarship has also been cited in an amicus curiae brief filed by Senator Ted Cruz in Chen v. FBI in the D.C. Circuit.[31]

United Nations engagement

Goldenziel has participated in United Nations processes on migration since 2016 through the Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS), including High-Level Meetings related to the Global Compact for Migration. She spoke before 164 UN member states at the 2018 Intergovernmental Conference to Adopt the Global Compact for Migration in Marrakech, addressed the 2018 Inter-Parliamentary Union/UN Annual Parliamentary Hearings, and submitted draft language for the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants and the Global Compact for Migration.[7] At the United Nations' 2022 International Migration Review Forum, she was a listed speaker at the multi-stakeholder hearing as the representative of ACUNS.[8]

Congressional testimony

On September 19, 2024, Goldenziel testified before the U.S. House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party at its hearing "How the CCP Uses the Law to Silence Its Critics and Enforce Its Rule", alongside Jamil Jaffer and Anna Puglisi.[1] She recommended that the United States establish a counter-lawfare office and enact a federal anti-SLAPP law.[32] Her testimony was covered by Radio Free Asia and Voice of America.[6][33]

Selected publications

  • Goldenziel, Jill I.; Blochberger, Sean Michael; Granholm, Tyler (2025). "Weapon of the Weak: Lawfare and State Power in the International Court of Justice". Harvard International Law Journal. 66: 563.
  • Goldenziel, Jill I. (2021). "Law as a Battlefield: The U.S., China, and the Global Escalation of Lawfare". Cornell Law Review. 106: 1085.
  • Goldenziel, Jill I. (2022). "Information Lawfare: Messaging and the Moral High Ground". Journal of National Security Law & Policy. 12: 233.
  • Goldenziel, Jill I. (2023). "An Alternative to Zombieing: Lawfare Between Russia and Ukraine and the Future of International Law". Cornell Law Review Online. 108.
  • Goldenziel, Jill I.; Cheema, Manal (2019). "The New Fighting Words?: How U.S. Law Hampers the Fight Against Information Warfare". University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law. 22: 81.
  • Goldenziel, Jill I. (2019). "Checking Rights at the Border: Migrant Detention in International and Comparative Law". Virginia Journal of International Law. 60: 156.
  • Goldenziel, Jill I. (2017). "Displaced: A Proposal for an International Agreement to Protect Refugees, Migrants, and States". Berkeley Journal of International Law. 35: 47.
  • Goldenziel, Jill I. (2016). "The Curse of the Nation-State: Refugees, Migration, and Security in International Law". Arizona State Law Journal. 48.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Witness Testimony and Opening Remarks: Hearing on How the CCP Uses the Law to Silence Its Critics and Enforce Its Rule". U.S. House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party. September 19, 2024. Retrieved July 31, 2026.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 "Dr. Jill Goldenziel". National Defense University, College of Information and Cyberspace. Retrieved July 31, 2026.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Smith, Crispin (2025). "Chinese Lawfare in Conflict: The Threat to U.S. Operations" (PDF). Harvard National Security Journal. 16.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Connaroe, Alexander (2024). "Countering Lawfare of the People's Republic of China Starts with "PRC," Not "China"" (PDF). The Army Lawyer. The Judge Advocate General's Legal Center and School, United States Army (2): 32.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Malzac, Justin (2024). "A Special Operations Approach to Lawfare". Naval War College Review. 77 (2).
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 "以法规压制异见 美国专家呼吁警惕中国"法律战"". Radio Free Asia (in 中文). September 19, 2024. Retrieved July 31, 2026.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 "Academic Council on the Global Compact for Migration: Members". Academic Council on the United Nations System. Retrieved July 31, 2026.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 "International Migration Review Forum Multi-stakeholder Hearing: Programme" (PDF). Office of the President of the United Nations General Assembly. May 16, 2022. Retrieved July 31, 2026.
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 "The Art of Lawfare: The U.S., China, and Law as a Weapon of War". Arizona State University. February 2022. Retrieved July 31, 2026.
  10. ↑ "Jill Goldenziel". Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School. Retrieved July 31, 2026.
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Goldenziel, Jill I. (2021). "Law as a Battlefield: The U.S., China, and the Global Escalation of Lawfare". Cornell Law Review. 106: 1085.
  12. ↑ "Jill Goldenziel". University of Pennsylvania, College of Liberal and Professional Studies. Retrieved July 31, 2026.
  13. ↑ "Teinver S.A., Transportes de Cercanías S.A. and Autobuses Urbanos del Sur S.A. v. Argentine Republic, ICSID Case No. ARB/09/1, Award". Jus Mundi. July 21, 2017. Retrieved July 31, 2026.
  14. ↑ Sarmiento, Maria Florencia (September 26, 2017). "Argentina ordered to pay over USD 320 million for unlawful expropriation in airlines case". Investment Treaty News. International Institute for Sustainable Development. Retrieved July 31, 2026.
  15. ↑ "Jill Goldenziel". Forbes. Retrieved July 31, 2026.
  16. ↑ "Jill Goldenziel". Bloomberg. Retrieved July 31, 2026.
  17. ↑ "Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting: Front matter (Society officers and Executive Council)" (PDF). Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting. Cambridge University Press. 118. 2024.
  18. ↑ "Member Roster". Council on Foreign Relations. Retrieved July 31, 2026.
  19. ↑ 19.0 19.1 "The Curse of the Nation-State: Refugees, Migration, and Security in International Law". United Nations Network on Migration. Retrieved July 31, 2026.
  20. ↑ Nguyen, Tien-Duc (2025). "Viet Nam's Dynamic Approach to Lawfare". Asian Journal of International Law. 15 (1).
  21. ↑ "Countering China's Lawfare". Indo-Pacific Defense Forum. U.S. Indo-Pacific Command. July 2025. Retrieved July 31, 2026.
  22. ↑ Ku, Julian G. (July 22, 2025). "Written testimony, Hearing on Foreign Abuse of U.S. Courts, Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence and the Internet" (PDF). U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary.
  23. ↑ "Yes, there is consensus that 'lawfare' exists…but America still needs a strategy for it". Lawfire. Duke University Center on Law, Ethics and National Security. September 23, 2021. Retrieved July 31, 2026.
  24. ↑ "Law as a Battlefield" (PDF). U.S. Indo-Pacific Command. Retrieved July 31, 2026.
  25. ↑ Goldenziel, Jill I. (2023). "An Alternative to Zombieing: Lawfare Between Russia and Ukraine and the Future of International Law". Cornell Law Review Online. 108.
  26. ↑ Goldenziel, Jill I.; Blochberger, Sean Michael; Granholm, Tyler (2025). "Weapon of the Weak: Lawfare and State Power in the International Court of Justice" (PDF). Harvard International Law Journal. 66: 563.
  27. ↑ Goldenziel, Jill I. (2017). "Displaced: A Proposal for an International Agreement to Protect Refugees, Migrants, and States". Berkeley Journal of International Law. 35: 47.
  28. ↑ West, Laura B. (2021). "Beyond Fighting Words: Reconceptualizing Information Warfare and Its Legal Barriers" (PDF). National Security Law Journal. 8 (2).
  29. ↑ "Moses v. Ruszkowski, 2019-NMSC-003 (Nakamura, C.J., dissenting)". New Mexico Supreme Court, via CourtListener. December 13, 2018. Retrieved July 31, 2026.
  30. ↑ Brief in Opposition, Hile v. Michigan, No. 23-1084 (U.S. 2024), 2024 WL 3447301; Brief of Amici Curiae State of West Virginia and 7 Other States in Support of Petitioners, Hile v. Michigan (U.S. 2024), 2024 WL 2137210 (both citing Goldenziel, Blaine's Name in Vain?, 83 Denv. U. L. Rev. 57 (2005)).
  31. ↑ Brief of Amicus Curiae Senator Ted Cruz in Support of Interested Party-Appellant, Yanping Chen v. Federal Bureau of Investigation, No. 24-5050 (D.C. Cir. June 27, 2024), 2024 WL 3219936 (citing Goldenziel, Information Lawfare: Messaging and the Moral High Ground, 12 J. Nat'l Sec. L. & Pol'y 233 (2022)).
  32. ↑ Goldenziel, Jill I. (September 19, 2024). "Written testimony, Hearing on How the CCP Uses the Law to Silence Its Critics and Enforce Its Rule" (PDF). U.S. House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party.
  33. ↑ "美两党议员示警中国利用法律战打压国外学者". Voice of America (in 中文). September 20, 2024. Retrieved July 31, 2026.


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