Matthew Festa is a Professor at the South Texas College of Law – Houston, where he teaches property, land use, state and local government, and military and national security law. He has served in private practice, academia, and government, including service as a U.S. Army Judge Advocate and as a professor at the Army JAG School, for students from both the U.S. military and from a worldwide scope of international partners. Professor Festa is a leading scholar in land use law, and also has served as an expert teacher, author, and advisor for the U.S. Army and the Department of Defense in International Humanitarian Law.