Madeline Morris
Professor of Law
BA Yale University, summa cum laude, 1986; JD Yale Law School, 1989.
Madeline Morris is professor of law at Duke Law School. She serves as a member of the U.S. Secretary of State's Advisory Committee on International Law and has previously served as chief counsel to the Office of the Chief Defense Counsel for Military Commissions, U.S. Department of Defense; consultant on the brief for the petitioners in Boumediene v. Bush (U.S. Supreme Court, 2008); consultant to the U.S. State Department, Office of War Crimes Issues; advisor to the special prosecutor, Republic of Serbia; co-counsel, with Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, Washington, D.C., on cases before the European Court of Human Rights and the UN Human Rights Committee; senior legal counsel, Office of the Prosecutor, Special Court for Sierra Leone; consultant to the defense in U.S. v. Charles Taylor, Jr.; advisor and instructor, Specialized Training Seminar on International Humanitarian Law, Belgrade, Serbia; special consultant to the U.S. Secretary of the Army; consultant and adjunct faculty member, U.S. Naval Justice School; advisor on justice to the President of Rwanda; and, director of the Duke/Geneva Institute on Transnational Law. Professor Morris teaches Law of War, International Criminal Law, The Use of Force in International Law, and Public International Law, and directs the Duke Guantanamo Defense Clinic.
Draft Legislation
Counterterrorism Detention, Treatment, and Release Act of 2009
Selected Works
After Guantanamo: War, Crime, and Detention, Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy (forthcoming 2009) (with Frances A. Eberhard and Michael A. Watsula)
Taking Liberties: The Personal Jurisdiction of Military Commissions (August 9, 2008) (with Yaniv Adar, Margarita Clarens, Joshua Haber, Allison Hester-Haddad, David Maxted, James McDonald, George ('Wes') Quinton, Dennis Schmelzer, and Jeffrey Ward)
The Trials of Concurrent Jurisdiction: The Case of Rwanda, Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law (1997)