As an expert in National Security Law, Professor Peter Margulies focuses on the delicate balance between liberty, equality, and security in issues involving law and terrorism. Professor Margulies has written almost a dozen articles discussing the War on Terror. He currently works with RWU Law Professor Jared Goldstein, along with litigators from the law firm Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge,…, New York Times, , the , National Law Journal, and other media outlets., Books, “The Other Side of Autonomous Weapons: Using Artificial Intelligence to Enhance IHL Compliance,” in, The Impact of Emerging Technologies on the Law of Armed Conflict, , edited by Ronald T.P. Alcala & Eric Talbot Jensen (New York: Oxford University Press 2019), National Security Law: Principles and Policy, , 2d ed. (New York: Aspen Publishers 2019) (with Professors Geoffrey S. Corn, Eric Talbot Jensen & Jimmy Gurule) “Making Autonomous Weapons Accountable: Command Responsibility for Computer-Guided Lethal Force in Armed Conflicts,” in, Handbook on Remote Warfare, , edited by Jens David Ohlin (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Press, 2017) Interpretations of IHL in Tribunals of the United States (with Prof. Michael W. Lewis), in, Applying International Humanitarian Law in Judicial and Quasi Judicial Bodies, , edited by Philip Van Tongeren (The Hague, Netherlands: T.M.C. Asser Press 2014) “Valor's Vices: Against a State Duty to Risk Forces in Armed Conflict,” in, Counterinsurgency Law: New Directions in Asymmetric Warfare, , edited by William Banks (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013), Law’s Detour: Justice Displaced in the Bush Administration , (New York: NYU Press, 2010) “Lawyers' Independence and Collective Illegality in Government and Corporate Misconduct, Terrorism, and Organized Crime,” in, Enron and Other Corporate Fiascos: The Corporate Scandal Reader, , edited by Nancy B. Rapoport, Jeffrey D. Van Niel, Bala G. Dharan (New York: Thomson Reuters/Foundation Press, 2009), Articles, Textualism's Immigration Problem: Stabilizing Interpretive Rules on Noncitizens' Rights and Remedies, , 50 Hofstra Law Review 259 (2022), Searching for Accountability Under FISA: Internal Separation of Powers and Surveillance Law, , 103 Marquette Law Review 1155 (2021), Autonomous Weapons in the Cyber Domain: Balancing Proportionality and the Need for Speed, , 96 International Law Studies 394 (2020), The DACA Case: Agencies' "Square Corners" and Reliance Interests in Immigration Law, , 2019-2020 Cato Supreme Court Review 127, The Boundaries of Habeas: Due Process, the Suspension Clause, and Judicial Review of Expedited Removal under the Immigration and Nationality Act, , 34 Georgetown Immigration Law Journal 405 (2020), Rescinding Inclusion in the Administrative State: Adjudicating DACA, the Census, and the Military's Transgender Policy, , 71 Florida. Law Review 1429 (2019), Legal Dilemmas Facing White House Counsel in the Trump Administration: The Costs of Public Disclosure of FISA Requests, , 87 Fordham Law Review 1913 (2019), The Travel Ban Decision, Administrative Law, and Judicial Method: Taking Statutory Context Seriously, , 33 Georgetown Immigration Law Journal 159 (2019), Deconstructing Sanctuary Cities: The Legality of Federal Grant Conditions That Require State and Local Cooperation on Immigration Enforcement, , 75 Washington and Lee Law Review 1507 (2018), Curbing Remedies for Official Wrongs: The Need for Bivens Suits in National Security Cases ,, 68 Case Western Reserve Law Review 1153 (2018), Bans, Borders, and Sovereignty: Judicial Review of Immigration Law in the Trump Administration, , 2018 Michigan State Law Review 1-80 (2018), Global Cybersecurity, Surveillance, and Privacy: The Obama Administration's Conflicted Legacy, , 24 Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies 459 (2017), Searching for Federal Judicial Power: Article III and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, , 85 George Washington Law Review 800 (2017), Surveillance by Algorithm: The NSA, Computerized Intelligence Collection, and Human Rights, , 68 Florida Law Review 1045 (2016), Reauthorizing the FISA Amendments Act: A Blueprint for Enhancing Privacy Protections and Preserving Foreign Intelligence Capabilities, , 12 Journal of Business & Technology Law 23 (2016), Justice at War: Military Tribunals and Article III, , 49 U.C. Davis Law Review 305 (2015), Defining Foreign Affairs in Section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act: The Virtues and Deficits of Post-Snowden Dialogue on U.S. Surveillance Policy, , 72 Washington and Lee Law Review 1283 (2015), The Boundaries of Executive Discretion: Deferred Action, Unlawful Presence, and Immigration Law, , 64 American University Law Review 1183 (2015), Deferred Action and the Bounds of Agency Discretion: Reconciling Policy and Legality in Immigration Enforcement, , 55 Washburn Law Journal 143 (2015), Dynamic Surveillance: Evolving Procedures in Metadata and Foreign Content Collection After Snowden, , 66 Hastings Law Journal 1 (2014), The NSA in Global Perspective: Surveillance, Human Rights, and International Counterterrorism, , 82 Fordham Law Review 2137 (2014), Taking Care of Immigration Law: Presidential Stewardship, Prosecutorial Discretion, and the Separation of Powers, , 94 Boston University Law Review 105 (2014), Sovereignty and Cyber Attacks: Technology's Challenge to the Law of State Responsibility, , 14 Melbourne Journal of International Law 496 (2013), Constraining Targeting in Noninternational Armed Conflicts: Safe Conduct for Combatants Conducting Informal Dispute Resolution, , 46 Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law 1041 (2013), Networks in Non-international Armed Conflicts: Crossing Borders and Defining “Organized Armed Group,, ” 89 International Law Studies 54 (2013), Defining, Punishing, and Membership in the Community of Nations: Material Support and Conspiracy Charges in Military Commissions, , 36 Fordham International Law Journal 1 (2013), Advocacy as a Race to the Bottom: Rethinking Limits on Lawyers' Free Speech, , 43 University of Memphis Law Review 319 (2012), The Fog of War Reform: Change and Structure in the Law of Armed Conflict After September, 11, 95 Marquette Law Review 1417 (2012), Advising Terrorism: Material Support, Safe Harbors, and Freedom of Speech, , 63 Hastings Law Journal 455 (2012), Reforming Lawyers into Irrelevance?: Reconciling Crisis and Constraint at the Office of Legal Counsel , , 39 Pepperdine Law Review 809 (2012), The Ivory Tower at Ground Zero: Conflict and Convergence in Legal Education’s Responses to Terrorism, , 60 Journal of Legal Education 373 (2010), Judging Myopia in Hindsight: Bivens Actions, National Security Decisions, and the Rule of Law , , 96 Iowa Law Review 195 (2010) , The Detainees’ Dilemma: The Virtues and Vices of Advocacy Strategies in the War on Terror, , 57 Buffalo Law Review 347 (2009), True Believers at Law: National Security Agendas, the Regulation of Lawyers, and the Separation of Powers, , 68 Maryland Law Review 1 (2008), When to Push the Envelope: Legal Ethics, the Rule of Law, and National Security Strategy, , 30 Fordham International Law Journal 642 (2007), Beyond Absolutism: Legal Institutions in the War on Terror, , 60 University of Miami Law Review 309 (2006), Judging Terror in the "Zone of Twilight": Exigency, Institutional Equity, and Procedure After September 11, , 84 Boston University Law Review 383 (2004), Uncertain Arrivals: Immigration, Terror, and Democracy After September 11, , 2002 Utah Law Review 481, Democratic Transitions and the Future of Asylum Law, , 71 University of Colorado Law Review 3 (2000), Progressive Lawyering and Lost Traditions, , 73 Texas Law Review 1139 (1995), Representation of Domestic Violence Survivors as a New Paradigm of Poverty Law: In Search of Access, Connection, and Voice, , 63 George Washington Law Review 1071 (1995)
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Michael Donnelly-Boylen brings over two decades of legal education experience to his position as Associate Dean of Enrollment and Strategic Initiatives at Roger Williams University School of Law. He has become a leader on issues relating to the inclusion of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) population in legal education. Dean Donnelly-Boylen joined RWU Law in 2002, was…
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After a successful term at Yale Law School (where she served on the Yale Law Journal, the Yale Journal of Law and Policy, and the Yale Journal of International Law), Niki Kuckes won a coveted clerkship with Judge (now Justice) Antonin Scalia. She moved on to develop a sophisticated litigation practice in Washington, D.C, where for almost two decades she focused on white collar criminal matters,…, Books, “Rewriting Grand Jury History,” in, Grand Jury 2.0, , edited by Roger Fairfax (Durham, North Carolina: Carolina Press, 2011), Articles, Iancu v. Brunetti: Free Speech Meets Immoral and Scandalous Trademarks in the Supreme Court, , 25 Roger Williams University Law Review 80 (2020), Matal v. Tam: Free Speech Meets Disparaging Trademarks in the Supreme Court, , 23 Roger Williams University Law Review 122 (2018), Designing Law School Externships That Comply with the FLSA, , 21 Clinical Law Review 79 (2014), The State of Rule 3.8: Prosecutorial Ethics Reform Since Ethics 2000, , 22 Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics 427 (2009), Civil Due Process, Criminal Due Process, , 25 Yale Law and Policy Review 1 (2006), The Democratic Prosecutor: Explaining the Constitutional Function of the Federal Grand Jury , , 94 Georgetown Law Journal 1265 (2006), The Useful, Dangerous Fiction of Grand Jury Independence ¸ , 41 American Criminal Law Review 1 (2004)
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Michael Yelnosky is a founding member of the RWU Law faculty. He served as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs for four years, and he was named Distinguished Service Professor in 2011. He served as Dean of Roger Williams University School of Law from 2014 to 2020. He has also taught as a visiting professor at Seton Hall University School of Law, Chicago-Kent College of Law/IIT, and Villanova…, Washington Post, op-ed he wrote in 2013. He is regularly quoted in the local and national media on these and other topics, and he has published several op-ed pieces in the , Providence Journal., Before becoming dean, Yelnosky regularly taught Civil Procedure, Employment Law, Labor Law, and Employment Discrimination. He also collaborated with colleagues to teach Advanced Appellate Advocacy and with the Honorable William E. Smith, Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island, to teach Judicial Behavior and Social Change Litigation. Since becoming dean,…, cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania School of Law and , magna cum laude, from the University of Vermont. Before he began teaching he served as a law clerk for the Honorable Edmund V. Ludwig in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and worked for two law firms: Mellon, Webster & Mellon; and Morgan, Lewis, & Bockius. Professor Yelnosky and his wife Laurie Barron are the parents of twins. Yelnosky has completed eight marathons…, Books, 3 NYU Selected Essays on Labor and Employment Law: Behavioral Analyses of Workplace Discrimination (Mitu Gulati & Michael J. Yelnosky eds. 2007) 2 NYU Selected Essays on Labor and Employment Law (David Sherwyn & Michael J. Yelnosky eds., 2003) NYU Working Papers on Labor and Employment Law: 1998-1999 (Michael J. Yelnosky ed., 2001), Using Mediation to Resolve Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Discrimination Charges, , 1995 Wiley Employment Law Update 21, Articles, Labor Law Illiteracy, : Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis, and, Janus v. AFSCME , 24 Roger Williams University Law Review 104 (2019) DIRECTV, Inc. v. Imburgia , and the Continued Ascendance of Federal Common Law: Class-Action Waivers and Mandatory Arbitration Under the Federal Arbitration Act , , 22 Roger Williams U.L. Rev. 287 (2017) Harris v. Quinn: , What We Talk About When We Talk About Right-To-Work Laws, , 20 Roger Williams U.L. Rev. 119 (2015), Who Rates Prospective Federal Judges for the American Bar Association?, , 19 Roger Williams U.L. Rev. 91 (2014), Fully Federalizing the Federal Arbitration Act, , 90 Or. L. Rev. 729 (2012), The Impact of “Merit Selection” On the Characteristics of Rhode Island Judges , , 15 Roger Williams U.L. Rev. 649 (2010) (symposium on “Judicial Selection in Rhode Island”), What Do Unions Do About Appearance Codes?, , 14 Duke J. Gender L. & Pol’y 521 (2007) (symposium on “Makeup, Identity Performance, and Discrimination”), Ten Years (or so) After , Gilmer, : Arbitration of Employment Law Claims under the Federal Arbitration Act and the Role of Rhode Island Law, , 9 Roger Williams U.L. Rev. 499 (2004) (10th Anniversary Edition) , Mediation?, , 53 NYU Ann. Conf. on Lab. 901 (2004), The Prevention Justification for Affirmative Action, , 64 Ohio St. L.J. 1385 (2003), Title VII, Mediation, and Collective Action, , 1999 U. Ill. L. Rev. 583 , What Does “Testing” Tell Us About the Incidence of Discrimination in Housing Markets?, 29 Seton Hall L. Rev. 1488 (1999) (symposium on “Housing and Hope: An Agenda for Reform”), The At-Will Rule and an Employer’s Duty to Investigate and Remedy Workplace Harassment: A Reasonable Regulatory Approach?, , 51 NYU Ann. Conf. On Lab. 467 (1999), Whither , Weber, ? ,, 4 Roger Williams U.L. Rev. 205 (1998) (symposium on , Board of Education v. Taxman), If You Write It, (S)He Will Come: Judicial Opinions, Metaphors, Baseball, and "The Sex Stuff",, 28 Conn. L. Rev. 815 (1996), Rhode Island's Judicial Nominating Commission: Can "Reform" Become Reality? ,, 1 Roger Williams U.L. Rev. 87 (1996), Salvaging the Opportunity: A Response to Professor Clark, , 28 U. Mich. J. L. Ref. 151 (1994) , Filling an Enforcement Void: Using Testers to Uncover Discrimination In Hiring for Lower-Skilled, Entry-Level Jobs,, 26 U. Mich. J.L. Ref. 403 (1993)
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Larry Appleman is an attorney specializing in internet law with a focus on online intellectual property, website agreements and privacy matters. He spent several years after law school developing legal software at LexisNexis. His academic background includes S.B. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, J.D. from New England School of Law, M.S. in Computer Science from Boston University, and…
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While serving as an associate at Shearman & Sterling in Washington, D.C., Professor Goldstein became one of the first civilian lawyers allowed into the Guantanamo Bay prison, in conjunction with his representation of several families of Kuwaiti detainees. After resistance from the U.S. Government, the Supreme Court agreed to hear the case , Rasul v. Bush, . Professor Goldstein’s involvement with the Guantanamo cases included drafting district, appellate and Supreme Court briefs on behalf of the detainees. He continues his work with the detainees through his scholarship at RWU, and is a national expert on the applicability of habeas corpus to the Guantanamo Bay detainees. He has published numerous articles on the topic and penned an Op-ed reprinted…, magna cum laude, )., Books, Real Americans: The Problem of Constitutional Nationalism, (Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 2021), Articles, The Klan's Constitution, , 9 Alabama Civil Rights & Civil Liberties Law Review 285 (2018), Unfit for the Constitution: Nativism and the Constitution, from the Founding Fathers to Donald Trump, , 20 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law 489 (2018), How the Constitution Became Christian, , 68 Hastings Law Journal 259 (2017), The American Liberty League and the Rise of Constitutional Nationalism, , 86 Temple Law Review 287 (2014), The Tea Party Movement and the Perils of Popular Originalism, , 53 Arizona Law Review, 827 (2011), Can Popular Constitutionalism Survive the Tea Party Movement? , , 105 Northwestern University Law Review Colloquy 288 (2011), Equitable Balancing in the Age of Statutes ,, 96 Virginia Law Review 485 (2010), Aliens in the Garden,, , 80 University of Colorado Law Review 685 (2009), Habeas Without Rights ,, , 2007 Wisconsin Law Review 1165, Is There a “Religious Question” Doctrine? Judicial Authority to Examine Religious Beliefs and Practices , , 54 Catholic University Law Review 487 (2005)
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Professor Jonathan Gutoff is one of the nation’s top experts on piracy and maritime law issues. In addition to his popular courses on Administrative Law, Admiralty, Civil Procedure, and Remedies, Gutoff is a former acting director (and present faculty member) of RWU Law’s Marine Affairs Institute. His articles have appeared in top legal publications such as the Journal of Maritime Law and…, Articles, Attaching Domestic Assets to Remedy High Seas Pollution: Rule B and Marine Debris, , 22 Roger Williams University Law Review 432 (2017) Franchise Tax Board of California v. Hyatt:, A Split Court, Full Faith and Credit, and Federal Common Law, , 22 Roger Williams University Law Review 248 (2017), An Examination and Consideration of: Jurisdiction and Forum Selection in International Maritime Law: Essays in Honor of Robert Force, , 38 Journal of Maritime Law and Commerce 583 (2007), Fugitive Slaves and Ship-jumping Sailors: The Enforcement and Survival of Coerced Labor , 9 , University of Pennsylvania Journal of Labor and Employment Law 87 (2006) , A Jurisdictional Prolegomenon to the Limitation of Liability Act, , 32 Journal of Maritime Law and Commerce 203 (2001), The Law of Piracy in Popular Culture, , 31 Journal of Maritime Law and Commerce 643 (2000), Federal Common Law and Congressional Delegation: A Reconceptualization of Admiralty, , 61 University of Pittsburgh Law Review 367 (2000), Original Understandings and the Private Law Origins of the Federal Admiralty Jurisdiction: A Reply to Professor Casto, , 30 Journal of Maritime Law and Commerce 361 (1999), Limitation of Liability in Oil Pollution Cases: In Search of Concursus or Procedural Alternative to Concursus?, , 22 Tulane Maritime Law Journal 331 (1998) (with Robert Force), Admiralty, Article III, and Supreme Court Review of State Court Decisionmaking,, 70 Tulane Law Review2169 (1996)
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Kathryn Thompson serves as a Teaching Professor and Director of Academic Success at RWU Law. Before assuming this position, she served at RWU Law as a legal writing professor teaching first year students. She has also served as a clerk for the Honorable Joseph R. Nolan of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. Additionally, she clerked for the Honorable Edward F. Harrington from the U.S.…
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Barbara Hurst recently retired from her position as the Deputy Public Defender for the Rhode Island Office of the Public Defender. Before her appointment to that position, she was the Chief Appellate Attorney in that office, arguing hundreds of cases before the Supreme Court of Rhode Island.
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