Michel Paradis

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Michel Paradis
Citizenship American
EducationOxford (DPhil) Fordham (JD/BA)
Occupation(s)Human Rights Lawyer, Historian, Professor
Website www.michelparadis.com

Michel Paradis is an American human rights attorney, law professor, and author. He has written several books, most notably The Light of Battle, a biography of Dwight Eisenhower, and Last Mission to Tokyo, about the war crimes trials following the Doolittle Raid during World War II. [1]

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Early life and education

In 2004, Paradis received his Juris Doctor from Fordham University in New York. [2]  In 2011, he received his Doctor of Philosophy in computational linguistics from Oxford University, where he did early research on large language models. [2] [3] [4] While at Oxford, he was also an editor of the Oxonian Review. [5]

Paradis has worked as a human rights lawyer on conflicts arising around the world and the human rights implications of emerging technology. [2] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11]

In 2007, Paradis joined the Department of Defense as an attorney, where he worked on the cases of the Guantanamo detainees. [12] In 2014, Paradis won the Ali al-Bahlul case in the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, [13] which established the applicability of the ex post facto clause in Guantanamo. [14]  In 2019, Paradis won the case of In re Al-Nashiri, [15]  which invalidated five years of proceedings against Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri on the ground that the military judge had committed misconduct. [16] [17]  Paradis was featured in the Netflix documentary Turning Point: 9/11 and the War on Terror where he was critical of the human rights consequences of the War on Terror. [4] [18] [19] [20]

In 2022, Paradis was elected as a Partner at the international law firm of Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle. [21] He is a Lecturer at Columbia Law School in New York, where he teaches national security law and jurisprudence. [4] [11] [22] He is also a Contributing Editor at Lawfare. [23]

Books

Awards and recognition

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