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Steve Vladeck

Steve Vladeck (BlueskyLinkedInX) holds the Charles Alan Wright Chair in Federal Courts at the University of Texas School of Law and is also a senior editor of the Journal of National Security Law & Policy; a contributing editor to the Lawfare blog; a Distinguished Scholar at the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law; a fellow of the Fordham University School of Law Center on National Security; the Supreme Court Fellow for the Constitution Project; and an elected member of the American Law Institute. Steve’s prolific and award-winning scholarship has been published in the Yale Law Journal, the Harvard Law Review, and the Columbia Law Review, among others. Steve has also published short-form writing in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the National Law Journal, MSNBC.com, Slate, and BuzzFeed. Steve graduated from Amherst College and Yale Law School, after which he clerked for Judge Marsha Berzon on the Ninth Circuit and Judge Rosemary Barkett on the Eleventh Circuit.

Areas of ExpertiseConstitutional Law, National Security Law, Federal Jurisdiction, International Criminal Law, Surveillance, Detention, Federal Courts, Military Commissions

Selected Media Appearances
Television
Criticism Over Terror Suspect Killing – WUSA (9 News Now at 11)
Espionage Act and Whistle-Blowers – C-SPAN (Washington Journal)

Radio
Amnesty International: US drone strikes are ‘unlawful,’ demands victim reparations – KPCC (Airtalk)
Legal Questions Over Special Ops Raids– WBUR (Here & Now)
White House Issues New Rules on al Qaida Suspects – NPR (All Things Considered)

Online
Massive NSA cellphone-tracking program snares some Americans, too 
The Christian Science Monitor 
Taking the “Meh” out of Metadata
Slate
The Best Evidence Yet That Government Surveillance Oversight Is Nowhere Near Adequate
Slate
It’s time to fix the FISA Court (the way Congress intended)
MSNBC

Articles by this author:

Two people pass a relay baton.
Trump walks with US Attorney General William Barr (L), US Secretary of Defense Mark T. Esper (C), Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark A. Milley (R), and others from the White House to St. John's Church where tear gas was used to clear the crowd on June 1, 2020 in Washington DC. Only one person in the background has a face mask. No one is social distanced.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo leaves the stage to US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper during a briefing on the past 72 hours events in Mar a Lago, Palm Beach, Florida on December 29, 2019.
US Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell gives a thumbs-up as he is applauded during the ceremonial swear-in of Brett Kavanaugh as Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court by Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy before US President Donald Trump on October 8, 2018, at the White House in Washington, DC.
A sign reading, "Office of Military Commissions Expeditionary Legal Complex Guantanamo Bay, Cuba" stands close to where pre-trial hearings are being held for the detainees at the military prison on June 25, 2013 in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Julian Assange is restrained by men and police.
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, White House National Security Advisor John Bolton and Vice President Mike Pence listen to President Donald Trump announce his decision to withdraw the United States from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal in the Diplomatic Room at the White House May 8, 2018 in Washington, DC.
Hassan Shibly, lawyer for 24-year-old Hoda Muthana, looks at a phone in his office in Tampa, Florida, on February 20, 2019.
Tess Bridgeman

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