U.S. Central Command Liaison to International Committee of the Red Cross

RACHEL E. VANLANDINGHAM

Visiting Assistant Professor

Stetson University College of Law

1401 61^st St. S., Gulfport, Florida 33707

(727) 562-7338 (w); (813) 335-3331 (h); rvanland@law.stetson.edu

Member of Texas Bar since November of 2000

EDUCATION

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: 44^th 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: 43^nd 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:

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

U.S. Central Command

Tampa, Florida

Chief Recruiting Officer (JAG) 2004-2005

Office of The Staff Judge Advocate

The Pentagon, Washington DC

Appellate Advocate 2003-2004

USAF Appellate Defense

Washington DC

Area Defense Counsel 2002-2003

Holloman Air Force Base, NM

Chief, Military Justice 2000-2002

Holloman AFB, NM

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