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JEANNE BAKER is President of the Florida ACLU and has been an active litigator for more than 30 years,
first as a federal public defender and now in private practice. Ms. Baker represented Adham Hassoun, the
leading defendant in the Padilla case, one of the most well-known terrorism trials to date.

FRED L. BORCH, Col. (ret.),
served in the Judge Advocate General Corps (JAG Corps) until his retirement
in 2005, after 25 years of active duty. In 2003-04, then Col. Borch was Chief Prosecutor for the Military
Commissions, with overall responsibility for the prosecution of alleged terrorists held at Guantanamo
Bay, Cuba.

CHRISTOPHER J. BORGEN is an Associate Professor at St. John’s University School of Law, and the
Chairperson of the United Nations Committee of the New York City Bar. Prof. Borgen is co-founder of
Opinio Juris, a leading international law weblog.

BOBBY CHESNEY is a Professor of Law at Wake Forest University. Prof. Chesney is past Chair of the
Section on National Security Law of the Association of American Law Schools, and a member of both
the American Law Institute and the Council on Foreign Relations.

GEOFFREY S. CORN, Lt. Col. (ret.), spent 21 years in active duty in the U.S. Army JAG Corps before his
2005 appointment as an Assistant Professor at South Texas College of Law. Formerly, Lt. Col. Corn served
as Special Assistant for Law of War Matters to the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General.

MAJ. GEN. CHARLES J. DUNLAP, JR. is Deputy Judge Advocate General of the U.S. Air Force, and assists
in the oversight of more than 2550 military and civilian attorneys worldwide. He is widely published,
with recent articles in the Stanford Law Review, Yale Journal of International Affairs, and The New York
Times.

EUGENE R. FIDELL is president of the National Institute of Military Justice and heads the Military Practice
Group at Feldesman, Tucker Leifer Fidell LLP, in Washington, D.C. He served as a judge advocate in the
U.S. Coast Guard and is co-author of Military Justice: Cases and Materials (LexisNexis 2007).

AMOS N. GUIORA, Lt. Col. (ret.),
is a Professor at the S.J. Quinney College of Law, and the author of
Constitutional Limits on Coercive Interrogation and Understanding Counterterrorism. Before joining
academia, he served for 19 years in the Israel Defense Forces JAG Corps, holding numerous senior
command positions.

VICTOR M. HANSEN, Lt. Col. (ret.),
served 20 years in the U.S. Army JAG Corps before joining the New
England School of Law faculty in 2005. Lt. Col. Hansen was regional defense counsel for the U.S. Army Trial
Defense Service before his retirement, and has experience in both military prosecution and defense.

WALT HUFFMAN, Maj. Gen. (ret.),
is Dean of the Texas Tech University School of Law, and served more
than 30 years in the U.S. Army. Dean Huffman was a senior assistant for law and policy to the Secretary
of Veterans Affairs after serving as The Judge Advocate General of the U.S. Army – the Army’s senior
military officer ranking.

JOHN HUTSON, Vice Adm. (ret.), is Dean of the Franklin Pierce Law Center. Dean Hutson served in the
U.S. Navy as Staff Judge Advocate and Commanding Officer, Naval Legal Service Office, Europe and
Southwest Asia, and was appointed as The Judge Advocate General of the U.S. Navy in 1997.
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RICHARD JACKSON, Col. (ret.), is Special Assistant to the Judge Advocate General for Lawof War matters.
He has served in numerous roles in the U.S. military, including Professor and Chair of the International and
Operational Law Department of the JAG School, and Legal Advisor of the Joint Forces Command.

MICHAEL LEWIS joined the faculty at Ohio Northern University School of Law in 2006.
After his Topgun graduation in 1992, he flew F-14s for the U.S. Navy in Operation Desert Shield, conducted strike planning for Desert Storm, and was deployed to the Persian Gulf to enforce the no-fly zone over Iraq.

COL. LAWRENCE J. MORRIS has served in many facets of military law, including as Professor and Chair of the Criminal Law Department of the JAG School. After the September 11th attacks, he led the inter-service team charged with developing rules and strategies for trying suspected terrorists by military commissions.