Osher Lifelong Learning Institute
Were Those Military Orders Legal?
Speaker
Professor Rachel E. VanLandingham
Coordinator
Michael Lipman
This lecture will discuss the most current issues relating to military and national security law, including the questionable killing of the two survivors of the first missile attack on a “drug boat”; the legality of the boat strike campaign in the Caribbean; the Pentagon’s “investigation” of Sen. Mark Kelly for reminding service members of their legal obligations; the deployment of both National Guard and active duty Marines to US cities; the abuse of the military justice and disciplinary systems in support of the politicization of the military; and other hot topics.
Speaker Bio
Presenter: Professor Rachel E. VanLandingham, LtCol,USAF (ret.) is the Irwin R. Buchalter Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Research at Southwestern Law School, Los Angeles, where she teaches national security law, the law of war, and criminal law and procedure. She is a U.S. Air Force Academy graduate and former military judge advocate, who served as a military lawyer at many levels, including advising on the law of war at HQ US Central Command during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. She received her JD with high honors from the University of Texas at Austin and her LLM in Military Law from the Judge Advocate General’s School.
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