Dr. Madeline Morris

Biography

Madeline Morris is a Professor Emerita at Duke University School of Law, specializing in counterterrorism law and policy, international criminal law, the law of war, transnational jurisdiction, and public international law. She has served as a member of the U.S. Secretary of State's Advisory Committee on International Law and as an adviser to the Justice Department of the President of Rwanda. Morris was a special consultant to the U.S. Secretary of the Army and held the position of senior legal counsel at the Office of the Prosecutor for the Special Court for Sierra Leone. Additionally, she has acted as an adviser to the special prosecutor for the Republic of Serbia and has functioned as an expert witness in significant legal cases including the Alien Tort Claims Act. Morris is noted as a leading expert in counterterrorism and military commissions, having served as chief counsel at the Office of Chief Defense Counsel for Military Commissions within the U.S. Department of Defense, and as a consultant for key military commission cases. She is the founder and current director of the Guantanamo Defense Clinic at Duke Law School and has authored extensively on issues related to the detention and trial of suspected terrorists.

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