State Department Lawyer – Niels von Deuten

In Episode #73, we are joined by Attorney-Advisor at the U.S. Department of State, Niels Von Deuten.

We discuss:

• The role of State Department lawyers
• How the Department's legal office, aka "L", is organized
• The difference between L and the legal attaches posted at U.S. missions abroad
• Niels' diverse assignments, from representing the Department on employment matters, to supporting the bureaus in charge of African and Near Eastern affairs
• Clerking for both trial and appeals judges
• Listening, and watching recommendations from:
  • Niels
    • A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine
  • Jonathan
    • Foreign Policy’s Africa Brief
  • Fred
    • CIA’s Former Counterterrorism Chief for the Region: Afghanistan Not an Intelligence Failure. It’s Much Worse
    • Cocaine Cowboys: The Kings of Miami on Netflix

We’ll see you next week for another exciting and informative episode when we sit down with Luis Martínez, the director of the Southeast energy, climate, and clean energy program at Natural Resources Defense Council.