Ryan Christian is a Senior Lecturing Fellow at Duke University School of Law, specializing in Legal Research, Analysis, and Writing. He has a rich background in legal education, having previously served as a Visiting Fellow and Honorary Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh. His teaching experience includes courses in Legal Rhetoric at American University Washington College of Law and legal writing at Georgetown University Law Center as a Fellow in the Legal Research Writing Program. Additionally, Christian has served as an adjunct faculty member and a mock trial judge at various schools. His legal practice encompasses constitutional and commercial litigation, international investigations, and cybersecurity. He has experience briefing and arguing appeals in five U.S. Circuit Courts and served as counsel of record before the U.S. Supreme Court. Noteworthy litigation includes cases challenging wine distribution laws under the Commerce Clause and defending against LIBOR manipulation allegations. Christian has an extensive background with the Department of Justice, where he worked for eight years as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Transnational Organized Crime and Cybercrime Sections, and as a Trial Attorney in the International Money Laundering Unit. He completed clerkships with the Honorable Emilio M. Garza at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and the Honorable Henry H. Kennedy, Jr. at the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, where he assisted in adjudicating petitions and writs of habeas corpus for Guantanamo Bay detainees.