Nathan A. Sales |
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Bancroft Associates PLLC |
Nathan A. Sales is Assistant Professor at the George Mason University School of Law. He teaches national-security law and administrative law.
From 2006-2007, Sales served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy Development at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. His work focused on combating terrorist travel and improving information sharing. Sales led DHS’s efforts to draft and implement legislation that strengthens the security features of, and expands, the Visa Waiver Program (which allows citizens of certain countries to travel to the United States without a visa). He headed the U.S. delegation in talks with seven visa waiver countries to implement the new security measures, and served as the Secretary of Homeland Security’s Special Envoy to South Korea. Sales was Counsel, then Senior Counsel, in the Office of Legal Policy at the U.S. Department of Justice from 2001 through 2003. In 2002, he received the Attorney General’s Award for Exceptional Service – the Department’s highest honor – for his role in drafting the USA PATRIOT Act. He received the Attorney General’s Distinguished Service Award in 2003. Sales returned to OLP in summer 2005 to run the Justice Department’s “war room” for the confirmation of Chief Justice John Roberts. During the 2005-2006 academic year, Sales was John M. Olin Fellow at the Georgetown University Law Center. From 2003 through 2005, he was an Associate at the Washington, D.C. law firm of Wiley Rein & Fielding LLP, where he was a member of the firm’s appellate and litigation practice groups. Sales clerked for the Honorable David B. Sentelle of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. He was graduated from Duke Law School magna cum laude, joining the Order of the Coif and serving as Research Editor of the Duke Law Journal. He received his A.B., summa cum laude, from Miami University, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. An Ohio native, Sales is a member of the Virginia and District of Columbia bars.
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