Daniel Severson
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Daniel Severson advises businesses and consumers in complex litigation. Prior to joining Kellogg Hansen, Mr. Severson served as a law clerk to the Honorable Allyson Kay Duncan on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
Mr. Severson graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Harvard International Law Journal and received the Myer Dana and Etta Dana Scholarship and the Dwight D. Eisenhower Scholarship. He also holds a Master in Public Policy from Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.
Mr. Severson was awarded Harvard University’s Presidential Public Service Fellowship for work at the United States Department of Defense. He has served as a foreign affairs analyst at the United States Department of State and a Fulbright Scholar in Taiwan. Mr. Severson graduated from Bard College with degrees in political studies and French horn performance.
Publications & Presentations
The Encryption Debate in Europe, Jean Perkins Foundation Working Group on National Security, Technology, and Law, Hoover Institution, Aegis Series Paper No. 1702 (Mar. 21, 2017)
The Court and the World: An Interview with Associate Justice Stephen G. Breyer, 57 Harv. Int’l L.J. 253 (2016)
National Security Reporting Requirements: Managing the Tension Between Secrecy and Accountability (Bobby R. Inman Award Semifinalist, Robert S. Strauss Center, University of Texas at Austin, 2016)
Note, American Surveillance of Non-U.S. Persons: Why New Privacy Protections Offer Only Cosmetic Change, 56 Harv. Int’l L.J. 465 (2015)
Electronic Surveillance: U.S. and International Laws and Practices That Limit Privacy Protections (paper presented at M.I.T. conference, April 2015)
Competing with Korea, Taiwan Bus. Topics, Sept. 2013, at 15, https://issuu.com/taiwanbusinesstopics/docs/9_2013_topics_low
International Scrutiny Helps Taiwan Advance Human Rights, Taiwan Bus. Topics, Aug. 2013, at 35, https://issuu.com/taiwanbusinesstopics/docs/8_2013_topics_low/3
Taiwan Offers a Model for Advancing Human Rights, East Asia Forum (Aug. 23, 2013), http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2013/08/23/taiwan-offers-a-model-for-advancing-human-rights/
Structural Realism, Power Preponderance, and the Future of Sino-American Relations (senior thesis presented at West Point conference, May 2010)
Lawfare Articles
Encryption Legislation Advances in France, Lawfare (Apr. 14, 2016, 9:02 PM), https://www.lawfareblog.com/encryption-legislation-advances-france
Hollande Abandons Constitutional Amendment, Bolsters Defense, Lawfare (Apr. 8, 2016, 2:18 PM), https://www.lawfareblog.com/hollande-abandons-constitutional-amendment-bolsters-defense
Taking Stock of the Snoopers’ Charter: The U.K.’s Investigatory Powers Bill, Lawfare (Mar. 14, 2016, 12:17 PM), https://www.lawfareblog.com/taking-stock-snoopers-charter-uks-investigatory-powers-bill
The World’s Not Waiting for California: France Moves to Enforce Decryption, Lawfare (Mar. 7, 2016, 7:00 AM), https://www.lawfareblog.com/worlds-not-waiting-california-france-moves-enforce-decryption
French Constitutional Council Strikes Down Data Copying During Warrantless Searches, Lawfare (Feb. 23, 2016, 12:29 PM), https://www.lawfareblog.com/french-constitutional-council-strikes-down-data-copying-during-warrantless-searches
French Constitutional Amendment on Emergency Powers Moves Forward, Lawfare (Feb. 12, 2016, 10:38 PM), https://www.lawfareblog.com/french-constitutional-amendment-emergency-powers-moves-forward
France’s Extended State of Emergency: What New Powers Did the Government Get?, Lawfare (Nov. 22, 2015, 2:38 PM), https://www.lawfareblog.com/frances-extended-state-emergency-what-new-powers-did-government-get
State of Emergency: How the Paris Attacks Expanded France’s Police Powers, Lawfare (Nov. 15, 2015, 8:41 AM), https://www.lawfareblog.com/state-emergency-how-paris-attacks-expanded-frances-police-powers
Education
Harvard Law School, J.D., cum laude, 2016
- Editor-in-Chief, Harvard International Law Journal
Harvard University, M.P.P., 2016
Bard College, B.A. and B.Mus., 2010
Clerkship
Law Clerk, Judge Allyson Kay Duncan, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit, 2016-2017