Scott Silliman

Scott L. Silliman is a Professor of the Practice of Law at Duke Law School, and Executive Director of Duke Law School's Center on Law, Ethics and National Security. He is also an adjunct professor of law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), and at North Carolina Central University.

Education
Silliman received his B.A. in Philosophy (1965) and his J.D. (1968) from UNC.

Career
Silliman was a military attorney, called to active duty as an Air Force judge advocate in 1968, and later a staff judge advocate (senior attorney) and, in his last assignments, the senior attorney for Tactical Air Command and later Air Combat Command. During the 1991 Persian Gulf War, he supervised deployment of all Air Force attorneys. In 1993, he retired from the Air Force as a colonel.

Silliman is an expert on national security law,   military law,    and the law of armed conflict.

His views have been cited in various media, including by The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Christian Science Monitor, Newsweek, The Guardian, NPR, USA Today, and the New York Daily News.

Select articles

 * "Robinson O. Everett and National Security", 59 DUKE L. J. 1447 (2010)
 * "Prosecuting Alleged Terrorists by Military Commission: A Prudent Option", 42 CASE W. RES. J. INT’L L. 289 (2009)
 * "On Military Commissions", 36 CASE W. RES. J. INT’L L. 529 (2004)
 * "Troubling Questions in Interrogating Terrorists", 90 DUKE MAG., September–October 2004
 * "Detaining Terrorists at Guantanamo Bay: Questions of Law and Policy", 25 NAT’L SEC. L. REP. 1 (2003)
 * "The Iraqi Quagmire: Enforcing the No-Fly Zones", 36 NEW ENG. L. REV. 767 (2002)

Testimony to the Senate

 * Testimony on Hamdan v. Rumsfield: Establishing a Constitutional Process", U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, July 11, 2006

Interviews

 * "Morning Edition", NPR, September 8, 2006
 * Interview, CNN, January 14, 2003
 * "Separating the Sexes", The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer", PBS, March 16, 1998

Major service awards

 * Legion of Merit
 * Meritorious Service Medal with four oak leaf clusters
 * Air Force Commendation Medal with one oak leaf cluster