This practice area, which has grown exponentially since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, explores the nature and origins of the federal government's foreign relations powers, and U.S. law implementing international law, and the U.S. law of national security and counterterrorism. The field includes law on the use of the armed forces at home and abroad, intelligence operations abroad, counterterrorism, electronic surveillance and privacy, homeland security, crisis management and continuity of government, immigration, nonproliferation, treatment of detainees, congressional investigations and oversight, and classified information. The National Security and U.S. Foreign Relations Law Program highlights The George Washington Law School's unique strengths, which include an expert faculty, an extensive curriculum, and access to the extensive Washington, DC foreign relations and national security law community. Three of GW Law's full-time faculty members have authored four current casebooks in the field, and its full-time and adjunct faculty include the U.S. Department of Justice's leading counterterrorism expert and advocate, one of the academy's leading experts on computer crime and cyber law issues, one of the academy's leading experts on privacy and surveillance, a draftsman of the Military Rules of Evidence (and a member of the ABA Task Force on Terrorism and the Law), the head of appellate litigation for the military commissions prosecution team, and the U.S. Department of Justice attorney who has litigated a number of leading foreign relations law cases.