Steve Vladeck

Stephen Vladeck is the Charles Alan Wright Chair in Federal Courts at the University of Texas School of Law,[1][2][3][4] where he specializes in national security law, especially with relation to the prosecution of war crimes.[5][6] Vladeck has commented on the legality of the United States' use of extrajudicial detention and torture,[7] and is a regular contributor to CNN.

Life and career

Vladeck is the son of Fredda Wellin Vladeck and Bruce C. Vladeck, who was the administrator of the Health Care Financing Administration from 1993 to 1997.[8] He is the grandson of Judith Vladeck, a labor lawyer who won major sex and age discrimination cases.[9]

Vladeck was a two-sport athlete at Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, Maryland, and he was active in the athletics department at Amherst College, where he graduated summa cum laude with a double major in mathematics and history.[10][8] His J.D. degree is from Yale Law School, where he was the executive director of the Yale Law Journal and was the student director of the Balancing Civil Liberties & National Security Post-9/11 Litigation Project. He was also awarded the Potter Stewart Prize and Harlan Fiske Stone Prize.[11]

Vladeck clerked for Marsha Berzon and Rosemary Barkett — judges on the 9th and 11th Circuit Court of Appeals.[6] He worked on the legal team managed by Neal K. Katyal that successfully challenged the constitutionality of George W. Bush's Guantanamo Military Commissions.[12] In 2005 Vladeck joined the law faculty at the University of Miami School of Law in Coral Gables, Florida.[13] In 2007 he joined the faculty at the Washington College of Law at American University.[1] In 2016 he joined the faculty at the University of Texas School of Law.[6] Vladeck is a founding member of Lawfare; an Executive Editor, prior Co-Editor-in-Chief, and contributor at Just Security; and a contributor at PrawfsBlawg.[5][14][15]

Vladeck married Karen Shafrir in 2011.[8]

Media

Vladeck co-hosts the National Security Law Podcast with fellow University of Texas law professor Robert Chesney.[16]

Selected publications

Scholarship

Opinion pieces
  • Vladeck, Stephen I. (June 17, 2020). "How the Supreme Court Is Quietly Enabling Trump". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331.
  • Vladeck, Stephen I. (August 19, 2020). "Why Are Senate Republicans Playing Dead?". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331.
  • Vladeck, Stephen I. (November 8, 2020). "Elections Don't Have to Be So Chaotic and Excruciating". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331.
  • Vladeck, Stephen I. (January 14, 2021). "Why Trump Can Be Convicted Even as an Ex-President". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331.

References
  1. "Stephen I. Vladeck, Professor of Law, Associate Dean for Scholarship". Washington College of Law. Archived from the original on April 29, 2013. His teaching and research focus on federal jurisdiction, constitutional law, national security law, 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 party and amicus briefs in a host of other major lawsuits, many of which have challenged the U.S. government's surveillance and detention of terrorism suspects.
  2. Vladeck, Steve (May 22, 2013). "Why Clapper Matters: The Future of Programmatic Surveillance". Lawfare. Retrieved July 18, 2013.
  3. Klein, Kent (June 1, 2011). "Supreme Court: US Muslim Cannot Sue Former Official". Voice of America. A law professor at the American University College of Law, Stephen Vladeck, said the justices agreed unanimously that Ashcroft could not be sued personally. And a majority also rejected the merits of al-Kidd's case.
  4. Carol Rosenberg (October 18, 2016). "Guantánamo judge has U.S. Marshals seize no-show war court witness". Miami Herald. Archived from the original on October 18, 2016. Vladeck questioned the war court's authority to do this. "I have to imagine he has a pretty good habeas claim," he said of Gill's overnight detention to testify. "If the commissions can't usually issue extraordinary writs, what is the government's legal basis for detaining him?"
  5. "Posts by Steve Vladeck". Lawfare. May 16, 2013. Archived from the original on April 30, 2013. Retrieved May 22, 2013. A 2004 graduate of Yale Law School, Steve clerked for Judge Marsha Berzon on the Ninth Circuit and Judge Rosemary Barkett on the Eleventh Circuit.
  6. "Stephen I. Vladeck". University of Texas School of Law. Retrieved October 23, 2016. A nationally recognized expert on the role of the federal courts in the war on terrorism, Vladeck's prolific and widely cited scholarship has appeared in an array of legal publications—including the Harvard Law Review and the Yale Law Journal — and his popular writing has been published in forums ranging from the New York Times to BuzzFeed. Vladeck, who is a Supreme Court analyst for CNN and a co-author of Aspen Publishers' leading national security law and counterterrorism law casebooks, frequently represents parties or amici in litigation challenging government counterterrorism policies, and has authored reports on related topics for a wide range of organizations—including the First Amendment Center, the Constitution Project, and the ABA's Standing Committee on Law and National Security.
  7. Cowley, Geoffrey (May 21, 2013). "Obama defends his Guantánamo crackdown". MSNBC. Retrieved May 22, 2013.
  8. "Karen Shafrir, Stephen Vladeck". New York Times. November 13, 2011. p. ST16. Archived from the original on December 3, 2017. Mr. Vladeck, 32, is a law professor and the associate dean for scholarship at American University Washington College of Law. He graduated summa cum laude from Amherst and received a law degree from Yale.
  9. Lat, David (January 11, 2007). "Judith P. Vladeck, R.I.P." Above the Law. Retrieved September 26, 2018.
  10. Binder, Becca (May 23, 2001). "A record-breaking performance". The Amherst Student (25). Retrieved September 26, 2018.
  11. Mianzo, Barbara (October 27, 2017). "Stephen Vladeck '04, "The Past, Present, and Future of the Guantánamo Military Commissions"". Retrieved September 26, 2018.
  12. Thomas, Kaitlin. "Hamdan v. Rumsfeld: Neal Katyal Leads Students from Guantánamo to the Supreme Court" (PDF). Yale Law Report (Summer 2006): 37–43. Retrieved September 26, 2018.
  13. Nash, Leonard. "A Constitutional Scholar for Our Times". Miami Magazine (Spring 2006). Retrieved September 26, 2018.
  14. Vladeck, Steve (June 22, 2020). "Just Security's New Co-Editor-in-Chief". Just Security. Retrieved January 17, 2021.
  15. "Just Security Masthead" (PDF). Just Security. Retrieved January 17, 2021.
  16. "The National Security Law Podcast". Retrieved September 26, 2018.
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