Michael R. Sinclair

Michael Sinclair is senior counsel at the Department of War, (DoW) Office of General Counsel (OGC) (Intelligence & Security). He is responsible for the intelligence and operations practice area and has extensive experience with legal issues involving space/counter-space and sensitive space systems; intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance; electromagnetic warfare; geospatial intelligence; and measurement & signature intelligence.

Mr. Sinclair worked at the Department of the Air Force (DAF), Office of the General Counsel, as associate general counsel for aviation and space prior to his work with DoW OGC. He is a retired Coast Guard judge advocate with over 25 years of mixed operational and legal experience, including command afloat, as the Coast Guard's legislative counsel at Coast Guard Congressional Affairs, and details to the Department of Homeland Security OGC (Operations and Enforcement Division), the National Security Council, and as a fellow at the Brookings Institution.

He is a non-resident senior fellow for space security at the Atlantic Council, Scowcroft Center for National Security, Forward Defense, and a non-resident scholar at the George Washington University's Space Policy Institute.

Mr. Sinclair has been teaching at GW Law since 2020 and currently teaches International Law in Domestic Courts, National Security Law, and Upper-Level Writing.