Madeline Morris
Professor of Law
Yale, BA, summa cum laude, 1986, JD, 1989.
Madeline Morris is professor of law at Duke Law School. She has served as a member of the U.S. Secretary of State’s Advisory Committee on International Law; Chief Counsel to the Office of the Chief Defense Counsel for Military Commissions, U.S. Department of Defense; Consultant on the Brief for the Petitioner, Boumediene v. Bush (U.S. Sup. Ct., 2008); Consultant to the U.S. State Department, Office of War Crimes Issues; Advisor to the Special Prosecutor, Republic of Serbia; 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; Witness, U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations; Amicus Curiae in U.S. Military Commission cases U.S. v. Hamdan and U.S. v. Khadr; Expert Witness in U.S. Military Commission case U.S. v. Jawad, and in U.S. v. Vallejo (on U.S. special maritime jurisdiction), U.S. v. Saavedra (same), and Sarei v. Rio Tinto (on exhaustion of remedies under the Alien Tort Claims Act). 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 Law and Policy Review (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)
High Crimes and Misconceptions: The ICC and Non-Party States, 64 Law & Contemporary Problems 13-66 (Winter 2001)
The Trials of Concurrent Jurisdiction: The Case of Rwanda, Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law (1997)