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| Born | Stephen Isaiah Vladeck (1979-09-26)September 26, 1979 (age 46) New York City, U.S. |
| Education | Amherst College (BA) Yale University (JD) |
| Relatives | Judith Vladeck (grandmother) David Vladeck (uncle) Baruch Vladeck (great-grandfather) |
Stephen Isaiah Vladeck (born September 26, 1979)[1] is an American legal scholar. He is a professor at theGeorgetown University Law Center, where he specializes in the federal courts, constitutional law, national security law, and military justice, especially with relation to the prosecution ofwar crimes.[2][3][4] Vladeck has commented on the legality of the United States' use ofextrajudicial detention andtorture,[5] and is a regular contributor toCNN.
Vladeck, the son of Fredda Wellin Vladeck and Bruce C. Vladeck, was born and raised inNew York City before moving toSilver Spring, Maryland, with his family when his father became administrator of theHealth Care Financing Administration in 1993.[6] He is the grandson ofJudith Vladeck, a labor lawyer who won major sex and age discrimination cases,[7] and the great-grandson ofBaruch Charney Vladeck, aSocialist Party politician who served as the first majority leader of theNew York City Council. Vladeck's uncle isGeorgetown University Law Center professor and former director of the Bureau of Consumer Protection of theFederal Trade CommissionDavid Vladeck.
At age 11, Vladeck appeared on the children's game showWhere in the World is Carmen Sandiego? as a contestant on the episode titled "Blarney Burglary" in 1992, where the character Vic the Slick steals the Blarney Stone.[8] As a teenager, Vladeck was heavily involved withquiz bowl, basketball, and baseball atMontgomery Blair High School.
After high school, Vladeck attendedAmherst College, where he was active in the athletics department anddouble majored inhistory andmathematics. He graduated in 2001 with abachelor's degree,summa cum laude.[9][10] He then attendedYale Law School, where he was an executive editor ofThe Yale Law Journal and won theHarlan Fiske Stone Award for best oralist in the school'smoot court competition. He graduated in 2004 with aJuris Doctor.[11]
After law school, Vladeck was alaw clerk to judgeMarsha Berzon of theU.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit from 2004 to 2005. He also clerked for judgeRosemary Barkett of theU.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit from May to August 2006.[4]
Vladeck worked on the legal team managed byNeal K. Katyal that successfully challenged theconstitutionality ofGeorge W. Bush'sGuantanamo Military Commissions.[12] In 2005, Vladeck joined the law faculty at theUniversity of Miami School of Law inCoral Gables, Florida.[13] In 2007, he joined the faculty at theWashington College of Law atAmerican University.[14] In 2016, he joined the faculty at theUniversity of TexasSchool of Law, where he became the Charles Alan Wright Chair in Federal Courts.[14][15][16][17][4] Vladeck is a founding member ofLawfare; an executive editor, prior co-editor-in-chief and contributor atJust Security; and a contributor atPrawfsBlawg.[3][18][19] In 2024, Vladeck joined the faculty atGeorgetown University Law Center.[citation needed]
In 2011, Vladeck married Karen Shafrir, the former managing director of Whistler Partners, a law firm for startup technology companies.[6][20] As of 2024, Karen was the Founder & Managing Partner at Risepoint Search Partners, a boutique legal recruiting firm headquartered in Washington, D.C.[21]
Vladeck co-hosts theNational Security Law Podcast with fellow University of Texas law professorRobert Chesney.[22]
A 2004 graduate of Yale Law School, Steve clerked for Judge Marsha Berzon on the Ninth Circuit and Judge Rosemary Barkett on the Eleventh Circuit.
Mr. Vladeck, 32, is a law professor and the associate dean for scholarship at American University Washington College of Law. He graduated summa cum laude from Amherst and received a law degree from Yale.
A law professor at the American University College of Law, Stephen Vladeck, said the justices agreed unanimously that Ashcroft could not be sued personally. And a majority also rejected the merits of al-Kidd's case.
Vladeck questioned the war court's authority to do this. "I have to imagine he has a pretty good habeas claim," he said of Gill's overnight detention to testify. "If the commissions can't usually issue extraordinary writs, what is the government's legal basis for detaining him?"
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