Advisory Board
Daniel Marcus
Daniel Marcus joined the faculty of WCL in 2004. Previously, he was General Counsel of the 9-11 Commission. He was for many years a partner in the Washington law firm of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering. During the Carter Administration he was Deputy General Counsel of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, and General Counsel of the Department of Agriculture. He returned to Government service in 1998 as Senior Counsel in the White House Counsel’s office. From 1999 to 2001 he held several senior positions at the Department of Justice, including Associate Attorney General. He has also been a Visiting Professor at Georgetown University Law Center. He was a law clerk for Judge Harold Leventhal of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
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Stephen I. Vladeck
Stephen I. Vladeck is a Professor of Law at American University Washington College of Law, where his teaching and research focus on federal jurisdiction, national security law, constitutional law (especially the separation of powers), and international criminal law. A nationally recognized expert on the role of the federal courts in the war on terrorism, he was part of the legal team that successfully challenged the Bush Administration’s use of military tribunals at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, 548 U.S. 557 (2006), and has co-authored amicus briefs in a host of other lawsuits challenging the U.S. government’s surveillance and detention of terrorism suspects. Vladeck has also drafted reports on related issues for a number of organizations, including the First Amendment Center, the Constitution Project, and the ABA’s Standing Committee on Law and National Security, and he is a senior editor of the peer-reviewed Journal of National Security Law and Policy.
Professor Vladeck graduated from Yale Law School in 2004, after which he clerked for the Honorable Marsha S. Berzon on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and the Honorable Rosemary Barkett on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. While a law student, he was Executive Editor of the Yale Law Journal and the Student Director of the Balancing Civil Liberties & National Security Post-9/11 Litigation Project, and he was awarded the Potter Stewart Prize for Best Team Performance in Moot Court and the Harlan Fiske Stone Prize for Outstanding Moot Court Oralist. He earned a B.A. summa cum laude in History and Mathematics from Amherst College in 2001, where he wrote his senior thesis on “Leipzig’s Shadow: The War Crimes Trials of the First World War and Their Implications from Nuremberg to the Present.”
Vladeck is also a regular contributor to PrawfsBlawg, and National Security Advisors; is the Chair-Elect of the Association of American Law Schools’ Sections on National Security Law and on New Law Professors; and is admitted to practice in the State of New York, Third Department.
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Kenneth Anderson
Kenneth Anderson is professor of law. He teaches and writes in the areas of business and finance, both domestic and international; law and economics; and public international law, international organizations, human rights, and the laws of war. His current research agenda for 2010-11 focuses on targeted killing and drone warfare in armed conflict, and robotics and the law generally; global governance, global civil society and legitimacy; financial regulation reform (with Steven L. Schwarcz); and concept of proportionality in the law of war, the philosophy of value, and cost-benefit analysis. Professor Anderson’s book on UN-US relations, Returning to Earth: What Multilateral Engagement Means in UN-US Relations, will appear in 2011 from The Hoover Institution Press; and together with Duke University’s Steven L. Schwarcz, he is at work on “Reforming Financial Regulation” for Oxford University Press. Editorial board member of the Journal of Terrorism and Political Violence and political sciences advisory editor to the Revista de Libros (Madrid), Professor Anderson actively blogs at the Volokh Conspiracy and the international law blog Opinio Juris. He is a contributor to the Times Literary Supplement, Revista de Libros, Wall Street Journal, Weekly Standard, New York Times Magazine, Financial Times, Policy Review, and other general interest reviews. Professor Anderson will be a visiting professor at the University of Virginia School of Law in Spring 2011.
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Nicholas Kittrie
Dr. Nicholas Kittrie, distinguished University Professor of Law, has served as counsel to the United States Senate Judiciary Committee, and is an expert in American and international public and criminal law. Past president of the American Society of Criminology, former dean of the Washington College of Law, and chair of the United Nations Alliance of NGOs on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, Kittrie is the author and editor of over fifteen books and numerous articles. He frequently appears in mass media to deal with topics such as political offenders, terrorist activities, war crimes, drugs and alcohol, extradition, penology and criminal sentencing. Educated at the London School of Economics (U.K.), the University of Cairo (Egypt) and the Universities of Kansas, Chicago and Georgetown (USA), Dr. Kittrie is fluent in several languages. He has traveled extensively and has lectured at universities and congresses in Europe, Asia and Africa. Kittrie has served as legal consultant to several foreign governments and to the United States Vice-President’s Commission on Terrorism. Among Kittrie’s books are Rebels With A Cause: The Minds and Morality of Political Offenders; The Tree of Liberty: A Documentary History of Rebellion and Political Crime in America; The War Against Authority: From the Crisis of Legitimacy to a New Social Contract; The Right to Be Different: Deviance and Enforced Therapy; Crimes and Punishments: International Criminal Law and Procedure; The Future of Peace in the Twenty-First Century, and The Laws of War and the Laws of Peace.
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Michael W. Carroll
Michael W. Carroll joined the WCL faculty in 2009 after visiting during the 2008-09 academic year. He previously was a member of the faculty of the Villanova University School of Law. He teaches and writes about intellectual property law and cyberlaw. Prior to entering the academy, he served as a law clerk to Judge Judith W. Rogers, U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, and Judge Joyce Hens Green, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. He practiced law at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering in Washington, D.C. He is a graduate of the Georgetown University Law Center and the University of Chicago.
Professor Carroll’s research focuses on the search for balance in intellectual property law over time in the face of challenges posed by new technologies. He also acts on his ideas. He is a founding member of Creative Commons, Inc., a global organization that provides free, standardized copyright licenses to enable and to encourage legal sharing of creative and other copyrighted works. He also is on the sub-group of Board Members who advise the organization’s Science Commons division and its education division, ccLearn.
Professor Carroll also is recognized as a leading advocate for open access over the Internet to the research that appears in scholarly and scientific journals. He has written white papers and has given numerous presentations to university faculty, administrators, and staff around the country on this issue.
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James W. Zirkle
James W. Zirkle is an Adjunct Professor at WCL, teaching Law, Policy, and American Intelligence Activities. Professor Zirkle recently retired after 26 years of service from his position as an associate general counsel with the Central Intelligence Agency. Before joining the CIA in 1985, he was an associate professor of law at the College of William & Mary. Professor Zirkle has also served as the associate dean of Yale Law School and as an associate professor of law at the University of Mississippi. He currently is also an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center. He received his L.L.M from Yale Law School, and is a graduate of the University of Tennessee and Carson-Newman College
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GRADUATE ADVISORY BOARD:
Mora Namdar
Mora is a founding Editor-in-Chief of the National Security Law Brief who served as EIC from its inception in 2009 to 2011. Mora is an American University Washington College of Law J.D. and Masters in International Affairs from the School of International Service concurrently graduating in 2011. She is a native Texan of Persian ancestry and received her undergraduate degree from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. She was a double major in Political Science and International Studies, was the inaugural graduate of the human rights minor, and also minored in philosophy and fine art. While a student at SMU, she was active on campus as President of Amnesty International, a student senator, Vice-Chair of Student Issue Committee, a member of AXO sorority, the Class of 2008 council, and interned for U.S. Congresswoman Eddie B. Johnson. During her graduate experience, Mora has been a member of the SBA, Students and Organization Committee, as well as Phi Alpha Delta legal fraternity. Mora speaks Farsi fluently, has traveled extensively in Europe, and studied abroad at Oxford University.
Sean Shank
Sean is a founding Editor-in-Chief of the National Security Law Brief who served as EIC from its inception in 2009 to 2011. Sean is an American University Washington College of Law J.D. student enrolled in the dual master’s degree program with the School of International Service, concentrating on counterterrorism, cybersecurity, and nuclear non-proliferation who graduates in 2011. He graduated from Princeton University with a Bachelor’s Degree in East Asian Studies in 2006, focusing on US – Japan relations. For his Senior thesis, he wrote about the influence of the yakuza on Japanese nationalism in the early 20th century. In 2005, Sean briefly interned for the Hokkoku Shinbun newspaper in Kanazawa, Japan, acting as an assistant reporter. He is near-fluent in Japanese, and is conversational in Korean. Sean was also a member of WCL’s Mock Trial Honor Society.
Richard Rodriguez
Richard, a founder of the National Security Law Brief, received his JD from the Washington College of Law in 2011 with a focus on financial and banking regulation. He previously received his Bachelors of Science in Business Management focusing on finance and economics and his Masters of Professional studies in Human Capital Management from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. While completing his Masters, he worked in commercial banking for several years before leaving for law school. During law school he was the Managing Editor of the National Security Law Brief from 2009 to 2011, and a member of the American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law. Currently he works in an honors internship with the Enforcement Division of the Securities Exchange Commission while finishing his MBA at America University focusing his studies on the capital markets. He currently serves on the Student Affairs committee of the Hispanic Bar Association of D.C and is a member of the Latino Professionals in Finance and Accounting. In the past he has interned and/or worked with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Department of Commerce, and the House of Representatives Small Business Committee. He has published two law articles on “Financial Terrorism” and “Economic Warfare” with AU’s National Security Law Brief and the West Virginia National Security Review, respectively.
Peter J. White
Peter is a founding member of the National Security Law Brief and received his JD from the Washington College of Law in 2011 with a focus on antitrust law and international law. He received his Bachelor’s of Science in International Business at the State University of New York at Buffalo with a focus on economics and finance, and studied French and international economics at IPAG École Supérieure de Commerce in Nice, France. He was also the Managing Editor of the Administrative Law Review, in which his comment on the topic of international judicial assistance in antitrust was published in March, 2010. He has worked at the Federal Trade Commission in the Office of International Affairs as well as the Bureau of Competition, and the Federal Communication Commission’s Spectrum and Competition Policy Division of the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau. He is an active member of the Federalist Society and the American Bar Association Section of Antitrust Law.
