Scott Silliman

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Scott Silliman
Judge of the United States Court of Military Commission Review
Assumed office
September 12, 2012
Appointed by Barack Obama
Preceded by William Coleman
Personal details
Born 1943 (age 80–81)
Alma mater University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

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

Interviews

Major service awards

References

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External links

Legal offices
Preceded by Judge of the United States Court of Military Commission Review
2012–present		 Incumbent
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