Stephen I. Vladeck
Associate Professor of Law
Office: Room 386
Phone: 202-274-4241
E-mail: svladeck@wcl.american.edu
Stephen I. Vladeck, Associate Professor of Law, joins the WCL faculty in 2007 after two years as an associate professor at the University of Miami School of Law in Coral Gables, Florida. Vladeck is a 2004 graduate of Yale Law School, where he was awarded the Potter Stewart Prize for Best Team Performance in Moot Court and the Harlan Fiske Stone Prize for Outstanding Moot Court Oralist. He earned a B.A. summa cum laude from Amherst College in 2001, where he wrote his senior thesis on “Leipzig’s Shadow: The War Crimes Trials of the First World War and Their Implications from Nuremberg to the Present.”
While a law student, Vladeck served as Executive Editor of The Yale Law Journal and was Student Director of the Balancing Civil Liberties & National Security Post-9/11 Litigation Project. Working with Professor (now Dean) Harold Koh, he participated in litigation challenging the President’s assertion of power after September 11 to detain individuals without trial. Vladeck has also been part of the legal team headed by Professor Neal K. Katyal of the Georgetown University Law Center that successfully challenged the Bush Administration’s use of military tribunals at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, 126 S. Ct. 2749 (2006). In addition, he has consulted on and co-authored amicus briefs in a host of other cases arising out of the “war on terrorism,” and has authored reports on related topics for various organizations, including the ABA Standing Committee on National Security.
Vladeck, whose teaching and research interests include federal courts, national security law, constitutional law, and international criminal law, has clerked for the Honorable Marsha S. Berzon on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and the Honorable Rosemary Barkett on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. Secretary of the AALS Sections on New Law Professors and National Security Law, Vladeck is a regular contributor to PrawfsBlawg, http://www.prawfs.com, and National Security Advisors, http://www.natseclaw.com, and is admitted to practice in the State of New York, Third Department.
Currently Teaching
Areas of Specialization
- Federal Courts & Jurisdiction
- Constitutional Law (Separation of Powers)
- National Security Law
- International Criminal Law
- Immigration Law
Degrees & Universities
- J.D., Yale Law School 2004
- B.A., Amherst College 2001
Selected Publications
- Steve Vladeck, Congress, the Commander-in-Chief, and the Separation of Powers After Hamdan, 16 Transnatl. L. & Contemp. Probs. 933 (2007).
- Steve Vladeck, Deconstructing Hirota: Habeas Corpus, Citizenship, and Article III, 95 Geo. L.J. 1497 (2007). SSRN Link
- Steve Vladeck, Ludecke’s Lengthening Shadow: The Disturbing Prospect of War Without End, 2 J. Natl. Sec. L. & Policy 53 (2006). SSRN Link
- Steve Vladeck, Comment, Non-Self-Executing Treaties and the Suspension Clause After St. Cyr, 113 Yale L.J. 2007 (2004).
- Steve Vladeck, Note, Emergency Power and the Militia Acts, 114 Yale L.J. 149 (2004).
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More Publications...
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- Stephen I. Vladeck, Habeas Corpus, U.S. Citizens, and Iraq, Am. Jurist (Apr. 2008).
- Stephen I. Vladeck, Foreword, 34 Wm. Mitchell L. Rev. 5001 (2008).
- Stephen I. Vladeck, Ten Questions, 34 Wm. Mitchell L. Rev. 5007 (2008).
- Stephen I. Vladeck, The Espionage Act and National Security Whistleblowing After Ceballos, 57 Am. U. L. Rev. 1529 (2008).
- Stephen I. Vladeck, The Calling Forth Clause and the Domestic Commander-in-Chief, 29 Cardozo L. Rev. 1091 (2008).
- Stephen I. Vladeck, The Suspension Clause as a Structural Right, 62 U. Miami L. Rev. 275 (2008). SSRN Link
- Stephen I. Vladeck, Due Process and Terrorism: A Workshop Report, ABA Standing Comm. On L. & Natl. Sec. (Nov. 2007).
- Stephen I. Vladeck, The Lost Padilla Verdict, L.A. Times (Aug. 17, 2007).
- Stephen I. Vladeck, The Anticlimactic Trial of Jose Padilla, Jurist (May 15, 2007).
- Stephen I. Vladeck, The Law Reviews vs. the Courts: Two Thoughts from the Ivory Tower, 39 Conn. L. Rev. Contemplations 68 (2007). SSRN Link
- Stephen I. Vladeck, The Field Theory: Martial Law, the Suspension Power, and the Insurrection Act, 80 Temp. L. Rev. 391 (2007).
- Stephen I. Vladeck, Enemy Aliens, Enemy Property, and Access to the Courts, 11 Lewis & Clark L. Rev. 963 (2007).
- Stephen I. Vladeck, The Increasingly “Unflagging Obligation”: Federal Jurisdiction After Saudi Basic and Anna Nicole, 42 Tulsa L. Rev. 553 (2007).
- Stephen I. Vladeck, The Statutory Framework, in Top Secret: When Our Government Keeps Us In the Dark (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. 2007).
- Stephen I. Vladeck, Inchoate Liability and the Espionage Act: The Statutory Framework and the Freedom of the Press, 1 Harv. L. & Policy Rev. 219 (2007). SSRN Link
- Stephen I. Vladeck, Rights Without Remedies: The Newfound National Security Exception to Bivens, ABA Natl. Sec. L. Rep. 1 (July 2006).
- Stephen I. Vladeck, Padilla’s Ever-Increasing Importance, Jurist (Jan. 17, 2006).
- Stephen I. Vladeck, The Statutory Framework, in First Reports: Government Secrecy vs. Freedom of the Press (The First Amendment Center 2006).
- Stephen I. Vladeck, That's So Six Months Ago: Challenges to Student Scholarship in the Age of Blogging, 116 Yale L.J. Pocket Part 31 (2006).
- Stephen I. Vladeck, The Increasingly Unflagging Obligation: Federal Jurisdiction after Saudi Basic and Anna Nicole, 42 Tulsa L. Rev. 1 (2006).
- Stephen I. Vladeck, Charging Padilla: Mootness and Chief Justice Rehnquist, Jurist (Nov. 23, 2005).
- Stephen I. Vladeck, Jose Padilla and the Milligan Problem, Jurist (Oct. 27, 2005).
- Stephen I. Vladeck, Note, The Detention Power, 22 Yale & L. Policy Rev. 153 (2004).
- Stephen I. Vladeck, Book Notice (Reviewing The Rehnquist Court: Judicial Activism on the Right, Herman Schwartz, ed., 2002), 112 Yale L.J. 1305 (2003).
- Stephen I. Vladeck, Policy Comment, A Small Problem of Precedent: 18 U.S.C. § 4001(a) and the Detention, 112 Yale L.J. 961 (2003).
- Elizabeth Brundige, et al., Indonesian Human Rights Abuses In West Papua: Application of the Law of Genocide to the History of Indonesian Control, Schell Ctr. for Intl. Hum. Rights at Yale L. Sch. (2003).
- Stephen I. Vladeck, Recent Publications, Eyewitness to a Genocide: The United Nations and Rwanda (Reviewing Michael Barrett, Eyewitness to a Genocide: The United Nations and Rwanda, 2002), 28 Yale J. Intl. L. 281 (2003).
- Stephen I. Vladeck, Recent Publications, International Criminal Law (Reviewing Kriangsak Kittichaisaree, Internattional Criminal Law, 2001), 27 Yale J. Intl. L. 243 (2002).
- Fiona Doherty, et al., A Year of Loss: Reexamining Civil Liberties Since Septermber 11, Law. Comm. for Hum. Rights (2002).
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Selected Works in Progress
- Stephen I. Vladeck, Habeas Corpus, Alternative Remedies, and the Myth of Swain v. Pressley, 13 Roger Williams U. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2008). SSRN Link
- Stephen I. Vladeck, The Riddle of the One-Way Ratchet: Habeas Corpus and the District of Columbia, 11 Green Bag 2d (forthcoming 2008).
- Stephen I. Vladeck, Foreign Affairs Originalism in Youngstown’s Shadow, 52 St. Louis U. L.J. (forthcoming 2008).
- Stephen I. Vladeck, The Case Against National Security Courts, 44 Willamette L. Rev. (forthcoming 2008).
- Stephen I. Vladeck, The Federal Courts, the War on Terrorism, and the Problem of Anti-Antiprecedent, 84 Notre Dame L. Rev. (forthcoming 2009).
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Selected Presentations
- Stephen I. Vladeck, Co-Organizer, Junior Federal Courts Faculty Workshop (American University Washington College of Law, Wash., D.C., Apr. 4, 2008).
- Stephen I. Vladeck, Commentator, An Originalism for Foreign Affairs? (St. Louis University Law Journal Symposium: “The Use and Misuse of History in U.S. Foreign Relations Law,” St. Louis University School of Law, St. Louis, Mo., Mar. 7, 2008).
- Stephen I. Vladeck, Presentation, The Separation of Powers and the Marginalization of Individual Rights (Dartmouth College Department of Religion and Ford Foundation Conference: “The Gaze and the Veil: Surveillance and the Legacies of Orientalism,” Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H, Feb. 29, 2008).
- Stephen I. Vladeck, Presentation, The Significance of the Iraqi Detention Cases (American Constitution Society, University of Miami School of Law, Coral Gables, Fla., Feb. 8, 2008).
- Stephen I. Vladeck, Co-Organizer & Moderator, Terrorists and Detainees: Do We Need a New National Security Court? (American University Washington College of Law, Wash., D.C., Feb. 1, 2008).
- Stephen I. Vladeck, Commentator, The Prize Cases: Executive Action and Judicial Review in Wartime” (American Society of International Law, International Law in Domestic Courts Working Group Annual Meeting, University of Texas School of Law, Austin, Tex., Dec. 10, 2007).
- Stephen I. Vladeck, Presentation, Contextualizing Boumediene: The Federal Courts, the War on Terrorism, and the Future of U.S. Detention Policy (Brooklyn Law School, Brooklyn, N.Y., Nov. 29, 2007).
- Stephen I. Vladeck, Presentation, Remarks on Top Secret: When Our Government Keeps Us in the Dark (Georgetown University Law Center, Wash., D.C., Nov. 28, 2007).
- Stephen I. Vladeck, Panelist, Restoring Habeas: Al Odah and Boumediene in the U.S. Supreme Court (National Lawyer’s Guild, American University Washington College of Law, Wash., D.C., Nov. 27, 2007).
- Stephen I. Vladeck, Presentation, Habeas Corpus, Alternative Remedies, and the Myth of Swain v. Pressley (Roger Williams University School of Law Symposium, Bristol, R.I., Nov. 9, 2007).
- Stephen I. Vladeck, Presentation, The Suspension Clause as a Structural Right (Faculty Workshop, University of South Carolina School of Law, Columbia, S.C., Nov. 1, 2007).
- Stephen I. Vladeck, Presentation, What Boumediene Will (and Won’t) Decide: The Future of U.S. Detention Policy (University of South Carolina School of Law, Columbia, S.C., Nov. 1, 2007).
- Stephen I. Vladeck, Faculty Workshop, Access to Courts and the Separation of Powers (Cornell Law School, Ithaca, N.Y., Oct. 26, 2007).
- Stephen I. Vladeck, Presentation, Due Process and Terrorism (ABA Standing Committee on Law and National Security, National Strategy Forum, Wash., D.C., Oct. 18, 2007).
- Stephen I. Vladeck, Faculty Workshop, Access to Courts and the Separation of Powers (University of North Carolina School of Law, Chapel Hill, N.C., Oct. 5, 2007).
- Stephen I. Vladeck, Presentation, Rising Stars in National Security (St. Thomas University School of Law, Minneapolis, Minn., Sept. 29, 2007).
- Stephen I. Vladeck, Presentation, The Suspension Clause as a Structural Right (William Mitchell College of Law National Security Forum, St. Paul, Minn., Sept. 28, 2007).
- Stephen I. Vladeck, Presentation, Old Precedents, New Threats, and the Constitutional Law of Preemptive Self-Defense (Law and Terrorism Seminar, Law of Armed Conflict Center, U.S. Military Academy, West Point, N.Y., Sept. 26, 2007).
- Stephen I. Vladeck, Presentation, Looking Ahead at the New Supreme Court Term (American University Washington College of Law, Wash., D.C., Sept. 25, 2007).
- Stephen I. Vladeck, Presentation, The Espionage Act and National Security Whistleblowing After Garcetti (American University Law Review Symposium, American University Washington College of Law, Wash., D.C, Sept. 21, 2007).
- Stephen I. Vladeck, Presentation, Upholding the Constitution in the Twenty-First Century: The Role of Everybody (Constitution Day Event, American University Washington College of Law, Wash., D.C., Sept. 17, 2007).
- Stephen I. Vladeck, Presentation, Access to Courts and the Separation of Powers (Faculty Workshop, Stetson University College of Law, Gulfport, Fla., May 2, 2007).
- Stephen I. Vladeck, Presentation, Enemy Aliens, Enemy Property, and Access to the Courts (Lewis & Clark Law Review Symposium, Lewis & Clark Law School, Portland, Or., Apr. 20, 2007).
- Stephen I. Vladeck, Presentation, The Calling Forth Clause and the Domestic Commander-in-Chief (Floersheimer Center for Constitutional Democracy, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University, N.Y.C., N.Y., Apr. 16, 2007).
- Stephen I. Vladeck, Presentation, The Military Commissions Act, Jurisdiction-Stripping, and the Suspension Clause (Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, Ill., Apr. 13, 2007).
- Stephen I. Vladeck, Presentation, The Constitutional Legacy of the Bush Administration (American Constitution Society, University of Miami School of Law, Coral Gables, Fla., Apr. 10, 2007).
- Stephen I. Vladeck, Presentation, The Field Theory: Martial Law, the Suspension Power, and the Insurrection Act (Temple Law Review Symposium, Phila., Pa., Mar. 23, 2007).
- Stephen I. Vladeck, Presentation, The Suspension Clause as a Structural Right (University of Miami Law Review Symposium, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Fla., Feb. 24, 2007).
- Stephen I. Vladeck, Presentation, Congressional Power and the Military Commissions Act of 2006: Stripping Jurisdiction and Precluding Consideration of Geneva Convention Claims (Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting, D.C., Jan. 5, 2007).
- Stephen I. Vladeck, Presentation, Separation of Powers and the United States After Hamdan (Symposium USA 2006, Institut für Geschichte, Universität Wien (in conjunction with the Renner Institut and the Kunsthalle Wien), Vienna, Austria, Oct. 24, 2006).
- Stephen I. Vladeck, Presentation, When Do Wars ‘End,’ and Other Odd Constitutional Questions in the War on Terrorism (American Constitution Society, University of Miami School of Law, Coral Gables, Fla., Oct. 10, 2006).
- Stephen I. Vladeck, Presentation, Lawyering Terrorism After September 11th: Litigation Strategy in Padilla and Hamdan (University of Miami, Coral Gables, Fla., Oct. 9, 2006).
- Stephen I. Vladeck, Presentation, Deconstructing Hirota (Faculty Colloquium Series, Lewis & Clark Law School, Portland, Or., Oct. 3, 2006).
- Stephen I. Vladeck, Presentation, Preserving Civil Liberties in an Age of Global Terror: International Perspectives (Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University, N.Y.C., N.Y., Sept. 20-21, 2006).
- Stephen I. Vladeck, Presentation, Constitution Day 2006 — The Structural Importance of Judicial Independence (University of Miami, Coral Gables, Fla., Sept. 19, 2006).
- Stephen I. Vladeck, Presentation, Deconstructing Hirota (Faculty Workshop Series, University of Miami School of Law, Coral Gables, Fla., Sept. 11, 2006).
- Stephen I. Vladeck, Presentation, Guantánamo Bay and the Rule of Law (Class of 2009 First-Year Orientation Program, University of Miami School of Law, Coral Gables, Fla., Aug. 16, 2006).
- Stephen I. Vladeck, Presentation, The Espionage Act and the Press (Freedom Forum, Arlington, Va., July 20, 2006).
- Stephen I. Vladeck, Presentation, The Changing Paradigm of Article II (Southeastern Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting, Palm Beach, Fla., July 18, 2006).
- Stephen I. Vladeck, Presentation, Federal Courts, International Law, and the War on Terrorism (Florida Bar Association, Section on International Law Annual Luncheon, Boca Raton, Fla., June 21, 2006).
- Stephen I. Vladeck, Presentation, Workshop: Developments in the War on Terror (Florida State Conference, Amnesty International, Coral Gables, Fla., Feb. 25, 2006).
- Stephen I. Vladeck, Presentation, The New Garrison State: The Normalization of Emergency After September 11 (University of Miami School of Law, Coral Gables, Fla., Feb. 22, 2006).
- Stephen I. Vladeck, Presentation, Lawyering Terrorism After September 11th: Litigation Strategy in the Jose Padilla Case (University of Miami School of Law (in conjunction with the American Constitution Society), Coral Gables, Fla., Oct. 10, 2005).
- Stephen I. Vladeck, Presentation, Constitution Day 2005 — The Constitution’s Future: Nominating, Confirming, and Becoming a Supreme Court Justice (University of Miami, Coral Gables, Fla., Sept. 15, 2005).
- Stephen I. Vladeck, Presentation, Lessons from the Schiavo Case (University of Miami School of Law, Aug. 16, 2005).
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Selected Media Appearances
- Book TV, "Top Secret: When Our Government Keeps Us In the Dark" (C-SPAN 2 Mar. 2, 2008) (Interview).
- Brian Wagner Report, "US Terror Conspirator Sentenced to 17 Years in Prison" (Voice of America Radio Jan. 22, 2008) (Radio Interview).
- Washington Journal (C-SPAN Dec. 5, 2007) (Interview).
- U.S. News & World Report, "A Challenge to Lethal Injections" (U.S. News & World Report Nov. 3, 2007) (Magazine Interview).
- USA Today, "20-Year-Long Legal ‘Nightmare’ Ends for 2 Immigrants" (Gannett Co. Nov. 2, 2007) (Newspaper Interview).
- NBC News, "Discussion of Jose Padilla Verdict" (NBC Aug. 16, 2007) (Television Interview).
- Patt Morrison, "Padilla Verdict Guilty" (89.3 KPCC, L.A. Aug. 16, 2007) (Radio Interview).
- At Issue With Ben Merens, "The Jose Padilla Trial" (Wisconsin Public Radio May 15, 2007) (Radio Interview).
- Good Morning America, "Jose Padilla Trial Underway in Miami" (ABC May 14, 2007) (Television Interview).
- Weekend Today, "Jose Padilla Trial Set To Begin" (NBC May 13, 2007) (Television Interview).
- Morning Edition, "Long, Winding Road Led to Padilla Trial" (NPR Apr. 16, 2007) (Radio Interview).
- Morning Edition, "Lawyers Move To Have Padilla Charges Dismissed" (NPR Dec. 5, 2006) (Radio Interview).
- To The Point With Warren Olney, "The Political Consequences of Immigration Reform" (KCRW 89.9 FM Apr. 3, 2006) (Radio Interview).
- Miami Magazine, "A Constitutional Scholar for Our Times" (Miami Magazine Spring 2006) (Magazine Interview).
