Lake Travis Republican Club January 2023 Meeting

Lt. Colonel (US Army, Ret.) Jeffrey Addicott is a full Professor of Law and the Director of the Warrior Defense Project at St. Mary’s University School of Law. 

An active-duty Army officer in the Judge Advocate General’s Corps for twenty years, he spent a quarter of his career as the senior legal advisor to the US Army Special Forces. He served in senior legal positions in Germany, Korea, Panama and throughout the United States and deployed on numerous occasions to areas of armed conflict, awarded a Legion of Merit for his work in Peru.

He is an internationally recognized authority on national security and terrorism Law, and not only lectures and participates in professional and academic organizations both in the United States and abroad, but he also testifies before Congress on a variety of legal and policy issues.  He regularly contributes to national and international media outlets that include FOX News, CNN, MSNBC, OAN, BBC, New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, Wall Street Journal (over 5,000 interviews).

He is a prolific author, and has published over 100 books, articles, and monographs on a variety of legal and policy issues.  He pioneered the teaching of law of war and human rights courses to the militaries of numerous nascent democracies in Eastern Europe and Latin America.