Eugene Fidell
E-mail: academic@wcl.american.edu
Mr. Fidell heads the Military Practice Group at the Washington, D.C. firm of Feldesman Tucker Leifer Fidell LLP. Since 1991 he has also been president of the National Institute of Military Justice. He is a member of the ABA’s Task Force on Treatment of Enemy Combatants and Standing Committee on Law and National Security.
Mr. Fidell served as a judge advocate in the Coast Guard from 1969 to 1972, and regularly represents members of the armed services. He has also represented print and electronic media in military justice matters. He has written extensively on military law and has taught the subject at Harvard and Yale Law Schools and the Washington College of Law. Co-author (with Elizabeth L. Hillman and Dwight H. Sullivan), Military Justice: Cases and Materials (LexisNexis 2007)."
Mr. Fidell is a member of the American Law Institute, and has served on the Code Committee on Military Jus¬tice, the Advisory Board on the Investigative Capability of the Department of Defense, and the Rules Advisory Committee of the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces.
Currently Teaching
Areas of Specialization
- Administrative Law
- Military Law
Degrees & Universities
- LL.B., Harvard University 1968
- B.A., Queens College 1965
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Selected PublicationsBooks
- Eugene Fidell, Elizabeth L. Hillman, & Dwight H. Sullivan, Military Justice: Cases and Materials (LexisNexis 2007).
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Selected Presentations- Eugene Fidell, Panel Remarks, The Intersection of Law and National Security (U.S. Courthouse, Jan. 19, 2006).
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Selected Media Appearances- Inquiry into Corporal Pat Tillman's Death (CBS The Early Show Mar. 6, 2006).
- Inquiry into Corporal Pat Tillman's Death (Fox and Friends Mar. 6, 2006).
- Inquiry into Corporal Pat Tillman's Death (CNN Mar. 6, 2006).
- Inquiry into Corporal Pat Tillman's Death (NBC Nightly News Mar. 4, 2006).
- Inquiry into Corporal Pat Tillman's Death (ABC World News Tonight Mar. 4, 2006).
- Mention in James Yee's Book For God and Country (C-Span 2 Jan. 15, 2006).
- Mention in James Yee's Book For God and Country (C-Span 2 Jan. 15, 2006).
- Panel Remarks on Iraq and the Future of Former Leaders of Saddam Hussein Regime (WNET Apr. 25, 2003).