Stephen Vladeck

Stephen Vlaceck is an award winning legal scholar, known for his work on the prosecution of war crimes. He is currently at University of Texas School of Law.

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• Interview with stephen vladeck
• Stephen vladeck of american university discusses the cia torture report
• References

Vladeck has commented on the legality of the United States use of extrajudicial detention and torture.

Vladeck's Bachelor Degree is from Amherst College, and his law degree is from Yale Law School. While at Yale, 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 awarded two prizes there -- Potter Stewart Prize and Harlan Fiske Stone Prize.

Vladeck clerked for Marsha Berzon and Rosemary Barkett—judges on the 9th and 11th Circuit Court of Appeals. He worked on the legal team managed by Neal K. Katyal that successfully challenged the Constitutionality of George W. Bush's President Guantanamo Military Commissions.

In 2005 Vladeck joined the law faculty at the University of Miami School of Law in Coral Gables, Florida. In 2007 he joined the faculty at the Washington College of Law at American University.

Vladeck is a founding member of Lawfare, and a contributor at PrawfsBlawg.

Vladeck married Karen Shafrir in 2011.