usregimechange's Journal - Obama Nominates Judge Evan Jonathan Wallach to the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

Judge Evan Jonathan Wallach, United States Court of International Trade
Nominated by William J. Clinton on June 27, 1995
Current Nominee for the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
60 Years Old

"We know that U.S. military tribunals and U.S. judges have examined certain types of water-based interrogation and found that they constituted torture. That's a lesson worth learning. The study of law is, after all, largely the study of history. The law of war is no different. This history should be of value to those who seek to understand what the law is -- as well as what it ought to be." "Waterboarding Used to Be a Crime," Evan Wallach, Sunday, November 4, 2007

Former General Counsel and Public Policy Advisor to U.S. Senator Harry Reid

Military honors: Bronze Star, Air Medal, Meritorious Service Medal, Vietnam Campaign Medal (3 battle stars), and RVN Cross of Gallantry with Palm

"One of the nation's most foremost experts on war crimes and the law of war" (National Endowment for the Arts).

Education

University of Arizona, B.A., 1973
University of California, Berkeley, J.D., 1976
Cambridge University, LL.B., 1981

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