Michel Paradis

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

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 foundational research on large language models and Mixture of Experts techniques. [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] [ unreliable source? ] [20]

In 2025, Paradis was elected as a Partner at Steptoe, where he specializes in National Security law and Artificial intelligence. [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

References

  1. ↑ "Michel Paradis Books - Biography and List of Works - Author of Last Mission To Tokyo". biblio.com.au. Retrieved 2025-01-01.
  2. 1 2 3 "Michel Paradis". www.law.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2024-12-16.
  3. ↑ "'Gold rush mentality': Lawyers pile into AI advice". Australian Financial Review. 2024-09-26. Retrieved 2025-01-02.
  4. 1 2 3 "Smart devices, cell phone cameras, social shaming. and the loss of the right to a private self: Interview with Michel Paradis". Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Retrieved 2024-12-17.
  5. ↑ "The Oxonian Review of Books". 2007-06-29. Archived from the original on 29 June 2007. Retrieved 2024-12-17.
  6. ↑ Fink, Sheri; Risen, James; Savage, Charlie (2017-01-19). "C.I.A. Torture Detailed in Newly Disclosed Documents (Published 2017)". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2024-04-11. Retrieved 2025-01-02.
  7. 1 2 Bass, Gary (July 28, 2020). "Trying the Japanese for War Crimes". The New York Times .
  8. ↑ "The Legacy of Guantanamo Bay – Boston College Law School Magazine". lawmagazine.bc.edu. Retrieved 2025-01-02.
  9. ↑ "Michel Paradis". HarperCollins. Retrieved 2025-01-02.
  10. ↑ "NSA spying 'likely unconstitutional' and 'Orwellian', judge rules". The Telegraph. 2013-12-16. Retrieved 2025-01-02.
  11. 1 2 "Unique Course Highlights Theory Behind War". www.law.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2024-12-17.
  12. ↑ "Obama wanted to close Gitmo. Will Biden be able to finally do it?". PBS News. 2021-01-23. Retrieved 2025-01-02.
  13. ↑ "Al Bahlul v. United States, 767 F.3d 1 | Casetext Search + Citator". casetext.com. Archived from the original on 2024-09-17. Retrieved 2025-01-02.
  14. ↑ Greenhouse, Linda (2013-10-03). "Fish or Cut Bait". Opinionator. Retrieved 2025-01-02.
  15. ↑ "In re Al-Nashiri, 921 F.3d 224 | Casetext Search + Citator". casetext.com. Archived from the original on September 19, 2023. Retrieved 2024-12-17.
  16. ↑ Rosenberg, Carol (2019-04-17). "Court Rejects 2 Years of Judge's Decisions in Cole Tribunal (Published 2019)". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2024-09-29. Retrieved 2025-01-02.
  17. ↑ Gerstein, Josh (2019-04-16). "Guantanamo military tribunal hit with another legal setback". POLITICO. Retrieved 2025-01-02.
  18. ↑ "The Legacy of Guantanamo Bay – Boston College Law School Magazine". lawmagazine.bc.edu. Retrieved 2024-12-17.
  19. ↑ "Turning Point: 9/11 and the War on Terror". IMDb. 2021-09-01. Retrieved 2024-12-17.
  20. ↑ "Turning Point: 9/11 and the War on Terror season 1 Reviews". www.metacritic.com. Retrieved 2024-12-17.
  21. ↑ Jack Rodgers (March 12, 2025). "Steptoe Hires National Security Veteran In New York". Law 360. Retrieved 2025-05-01.
  22. ↑ "Echoes from the Past: Do the post WWII Japanese War Crimes Tribunals have lessons for Guantanamo?". Center on National Security. Retrieved 2024-12-17.
  23. ↑ "Masthead". Lawfare. Retrieved 2025-01-02.
  24. ↑ Salinas de Frías, Ana María; Samuel, Katja LH; White, Nigel D, eds. (2012-01-01), "List of Contributors", Counter-Terrorism: International Law and Practice, Oxford University Press, p. 0, ISBN   978-0-19-960892-8 , retrieved 2024-12-17
  25. ↑ Ford, Daniel (2020-10-02). "'Last Mission to Tokyo' Review: Torture on Trial". Wall Street Journal. ISSN   0099-9660 . Retrieved 2025-01-02.
  26. ↑ Greenberg, Karen J., ed. (2019). Reimagining the National Security State: Liberalism on the Brink. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781108676946. ISBN   978-1-108-48438-1.
  27. ↑ "The Light of Battle". Kirkus Reviews.
  28. ↑ "The Light of Battle: Eisenhower, D-Day, and the Birth of the American Superpower by Michel Paradis". www.publishersweekly.com. April 24, 2024. Retrieved 2025-01-02.
  29. ↑ "Eisenhower and the Road To D-Day". The Cipher Brief. Retrieved 2024-12-17.
  30. ↑ Michel, Paradis. "The Light of Battle: Eisenhower, D-Day, and the Birth of the American Superpower". Library Journal. Retrieved 2025-01-02.
  31. ↑ "Michel Paradis". Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP. 2025-03-12. Retrieved 2024-12-17.
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