Matthew Waxman

Matthew Waxman (born about 1972) is an American law professor at Columbia University and author who held several positions during the George W. Bush administration. He is also currently a Fellow at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace.

Waxman is a graduate of Yale Collegesumma cum laude, where he studied political science and international studies, and Yale Law School. He served as law clerk to Supreme Court justice David H. Souter and U.S. Court of Appeals judge Joel M. Flaum and is a member and international affairs fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations. He was a Fulbright Scholar at King's College London, where he studied military history.

Waxman was described as working within the Bush administration, unsuccessfully, to have U.S. captives treated in accordance with the Geneva Conventions. Waxman served under Condoleezza Rice in the National Security Council in 2001-2003. He served as the first Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Detainee Affairs in 2004 and 2005. Waxman moved from the Department of Defense to the Department of State in December 2005, serving there under Secretary of State Condaleeza Rice until 2007.

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