<span class="vcard">Daniel Maurer</span>

Daniel Maurer

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Dan Maurer (LinkedInX) is a retired Army lieutenant colonel and judge advocate, with combat tours in Iraq as a combat engineer officer and later as legal counsel. He is an associate professor at Ohio Northern University’s College of Law. He is a fellow with the National Institute of Military Justice and an adviser to the Center for Military Law and Policy at Texas Tech University School of Law. Maurer has taught at both West Point and the Army’s Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center and School.

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General Dan Caine, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff speaks at the National Defense University's graduation ceremony on June 11, 2026.
The Pentagon, headquarters of the U.S. Department of Defense, is seen from the air on February 8, 2025, in Washington, DC.
A detailed view of the uniform of a senior military member as U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at Marine Corps Base Quantico on September 30, 2025 in Quantico, Virginia.
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth stands at a podium​, delivering a speech to ​uniformed service members​.
An overhead view of the Pentagon building in Washington, DC.
Screenshot of the Hypothetical Legal Review of Use of the U.S. Military in Greenland (Just Security)
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Screenshot of the mock legal review by Daniel Maurer.
U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth speaks
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Former General Michael Flynn, President Donald Trump’s recently pardoned national security adviser, gives a thumbs up as he departs a protest of the outcome of the 2020 presidential election outside the Supreme Court on December 12, 2020 in Washington, DC. Trump supporters walk around him. Most, including Flynn, do not wear face masks.
Trump shakes hands with Joint Chiefs Chairman General Mark Milley after addressing the troops at Bagram Air Field during a surprise Thanksgiving day visit, on November 28, 2019 in Afghanistan.
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