Chris Mirasola
Assistant Professor of Law
Chris Mirasola’s work focuses on emerging questions of national security and international law. His scholarship situates legal doctrines in a historical context and is informed by time working as a Department of Defense attorney and in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Chris’s projects have been published, or are forthcoming, in the University of Southern California Law Review, University of Pennsylvania Law Review Online, the Harvard National Security Journal, and the Harvard Negotiation Law Review, among other publications. He has also written on national security law, international law, and PRC law topics for Lawfare. Chris frequently advises on national security law and international law matters, with a particular recent focus on the law regarding military deployments within the United States.
Before joining the University of Houston faculty, Chris was a Climenko fellow at Harvard Law School. Prior to that, he was an attorney-advisor at the Department of Defense. There, his portfolio included domestic military deployments, issues concerning the National Guard, and the government response to the COVID-19 pandemic and withdrawal from Afghanistan, among other matters. Before graduate school, Chris worked in China designing online teaching modules for criminal defense attorneys and teaching English.
