Stephen Vladeck

Stephen Vladeck
Nationality	United States
Occupation	law professor
Known for	expert on the prosecution of war crimes

Stephen Vladeck is Professor of Law at the University of Texas School of Law, where he specializes in national security law, especially with relation to the prosecution of war crimes. Vladeck has commented on the legality of the United States' use of extrajudicial detention and torture,and is a regular contributor to CNN.

Vladeck is the son of Fredda Wellin Vladeck and Bruce C. Vladeck. Bruce Vladeck was the administrator of the Health Care Financing Administration from 1993 to 1997. He is the grandson of Judith Vladeck, a labor lawyer who won major sex and age discrimination cases.

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.

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