The University of Texas School of Law:J.D., 2000 with High Honors (top five percent of class)
Honors:
Chancellors Society
Order of the Coif
The Judge Advocate General’s School, United States Army:LL.M., 2006
Honors:
Commandant’s List
The University of Maryland, College Park:M.P.M., 1994
Honors:
McArthur Scholar
U.S. Air Force Academy, CO:BS with major in Political Science, 1992
SCHOLARSHIPS AND FELLOWSHIPS
McArthur Scholar 1992
(one of three AF Academy graduates awarded a
Competitive scholarship to attend U of Md)
Funded Legal Education Program 1997
(one of seven officers selected from
Air Force officer corps to attend law school at
government expense)
LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS:
Heller & Originalism: Federalist Society Luncheon, Stetson University College of Law, (offered counterpoint to co-presenter Robert Levy, CATO Institute), November, 2012.
Ethics & Professionalism: Two-hour CLE Event, St. Petersburg Bar Association, October, 2012(panel member).
“No Easy Day” Commentary: WMNF 88.5, sole guest on radio show “Radioactivity,” Tampa, FL, September, 2012.
The Arab Spring and its Unfinished Business: Law & Policy Issues: 44th Annual Sutton Colloquium, November, 2011 (panel member).
Women’s Equality Day: Luncheon sponsored by U.S. Air Force Academy, CO. Gender Equality and Rule of Law in Afghanistan, August, 2011 (presenter).
Our World at War: South Texas College of Law (sponsored by the International Committee of the Red Cross), March 2011 (panel member).
Drones and Their Implication for International Law: 43nd Annual Sutton Colloquium, University of Denver Sturm College of Law, November 2010 (presenter).
PUBLICATIONS:
BOOKS, BOOK CHAPTERS AND MONOGRAPHS:
Work in Progress: co-editor of Military Operational Law text; Oxford University Press, publisher. Also author of individual chapter within this book on U.S. military’s relationship with non-government organizations such as the International Committee of the Red Cross.
Service Member and Veterans’ Rights, Editors Joseph Butler and Brian Clauss; Mathew Bender , 2011. Co-authored chapter on Air Force military justice.
LAW REVIEW ARTICLES:
*Valparaiso University Law Review: The Stars Aligned: The Legality, Legitimacy, and Legacy of 2011’s Humanitarian Intervention in Libya, Spring 2012, Volume 46, No. 3. *By invitation
*Denver Journal of International Law and Policy: Politics or Law? The Dual Nature of the Responsibility to Protect, Fall/Winter 2012, Volume 41, No. 1. *Symposium piece
MILITARY LEGAL EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Vice Chair, Dep’t of Law*2010-2012
& Assistant Professor of Law
U.S. Air Force Academy
Colorado Springs, CO
*Ran legal department of 19 professors in top 20 undergraduate institution in which all students are required to take legal course taught by department of law; personally taught courses in international law, constitutional law, and military law
Chief, International Law 2006 – 2010
U.S. Central Command Liaison to International Committee of the Red Cross