Scott Silliman
| Scott Silliman | |
|---|---|
| Judge of the United States Court of Military Commission Review | |
|
Assumed office September 12, 2012 |
|
| Appointed by | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | William Coleman |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1943 (age 73–74) |
| Alma mater | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill |
Scott L. Silliman is a Professor of the Practice of Law at Duke Law School, and Executive Director of Duke Law School's Center on Law, Ethics and National Security. He is also an adjunct professor of law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), and at North Carolina Central University.
Silliman received his B.A. in Philosophy (1965) and his J.D. (1968) from the University of North Carolina.
Silliman was a military attorney, called to active duty as an Air Force judge advocate in 1968, and later a staff judge advocate (senior attorney) and, in his last assignments, the senior attorney for Tactical Air Command and later Air Combat Command. During the 1991 Persian Gulf War, he supervised deployment of all Air Force attorneys. In 1993, he retired from the Air Force as a colonel.
Silliman is an expert on national security law,military law, and the law of armed conflict.
His views have been cited in various media, including by The New York Times,The Washington Post,The Boston Globe,The Christian Science Monitor,Newsweek,The Guardian,NPR,USA Today, and the New York Daily News.
...
Wikipedia