Scott Silliman

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.^[1][2][3] He is also an adjunct professor of law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC),^[4] and at North Carolina Central University.^[5]

Education

Silliman received his B.A. in Philosophy (1965) and his J.D. (1968) from UNC.^[6]

Career

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^[6][7] and later Air Combat Command.^[8][9][10] During the 1991 Persian Gulf War, he supervised deployment of all Air Force attorneys.^[11][12] In 1993, he retired from the Air Force as a colonel.^[12][13]

Silliman is an expert on national security law,^{[14][15][16][17]} military law,^{[18][19][20][21]} and the law of armed conflict.^[22][23]

His views have been cited in various media, including by The New York Times,^[23][24] The Washington Post,^[25] The Boston Globe,^[26] The Christian Science Monitor,^[27] Newsweek,^[28] The Guardian,^[29] NPR,^[30] USA Today, and the New York Daily News.^[31]

Works

Select articles

• "Robinson O. Everett and National Security", 59 DUKE L. J. 1447 (2010)
• "Prosecuting Alleged Terrorists by Military Commission: A Prudent Option", 42 CASE W. RES. J. INT’L L. 289 (2009)
• "On Military Commissions", 36 CASE W. RES. J. INT’L L. 529 (2004)
• "Troubling Questions in Interrogating Terrorists", 90 DUKE MAG., September–October 2004
• "Detaining Terrorists at Guantanamo Bay: Questions of Law and Policy", 25 NAT’L SEC. L. REP. 1 (2003)
• "The Iraqi Quagmire: Enforcing the No-Fly Zones", 36 NEW ENG. L. REV. 767 (2002)

Testimony to the Senate

• Testimony on Hamdan v. Rumsfield: Establishing a Constitutional Process", U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, July 11, 2006

Interviews

• "Morning Edition", NPR, September 8, 2006
• Interview, CNN, January 14, 2003
• "Separating the Sexes", The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer", PBS, March 16, 1998

Major service awards

• Legion of Merit
• Meritorious Service Medal with four oak leaf clusters
• Air Force Commendation Medal with one oak leaf cluster

References

External links

• Duke bio
• Silliman CV