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Matt Waxman
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Born
Matthew Curtis Waxman

1971 or 1972 (age 51–52)
Political partyRepublican
EducationYale University (BA, JD)

Matthew Curtis Waxman (born 1971/1972)[1] is an American law professor at Columbia University and author who held several positions during the George W. Bush administration.[2][3] He is also currently a

Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace.[3]

Education

Waxman is a graduate of

Fulbright Scholar at King's College London, where he studied military history.[1]

Government service

Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and Matthew Waxman, DASD-DA

Waxman was described as working within the Bush administration, unsuccessfully, to have U.S. captives treated in accordance with the Geneva Conventions.[4][5] Waxman served under Condoleezza Rice in the National Security Council in 2001-2003.[3] He served as the first Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Detainee Affairs in 2004 and 2005. Waxman moved from the Department of Defense to the Department of State in December 2005, serving there under Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice until 2007.

Later career

Waxman accepted a position as a Professor of Law at Columbia Law School in 2007.[6] Waxman currently serves as the Liviu Librescu Professor of Law[7] and faculty chair of the Roger Hertog Program on Law and National Security.[8]

On August 28, 2010, Waxman was quoted by

New York Times criticizing the Barack Obama Presidency for choosing to prosecute Canadian Omar Khadr who was only 15 years old when he was captured.[9][10]

In early 2012, as the Obama administration prepared to try

combating terrorism .... There are a lot of doubters out there who see military justice and the military commission system as tainted or illegitimate .... The Obama administration wants to turn around that perception."[11]

In 2020, Waxman, along with over 130 other former Republican national security officials, signed a statement that asserted that

President Trump was unfit to serve another term, and "To that end, we are firmly convinced that it is in the best interest of our nation that Vice President Joe Biden be elected as the next President of the United States, and we will vote for him."[12]

Personal

Waxman is a son of Merle Waxman and Dr.

Andrew M. Cuomo, in 2009. She is a daughter of the late Rosalie Katz and the late Daniel P. Katz. Her mother was with Downtown Realty Management in Great Neck, New York and her father was a senior executive with Kinney System.[1]

Publications

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Wendy Katz, Matthew Waxman" (limited no-charge access), The New York Times, August 15, 2009. Retrieved 2012-01-05.
  2. ^ a b "Matthew Waxman". Columbia Law School. Archived from the original on 2008-10-01.
  3. ^ a b c d e "Matthew Waxman: member of the Task Force on National Security and Law".
    Hoover Institute. Archived from the original
    on 2009-05-20.
  4. ^
    The Washington Note. Archived from the original
    on 2008-12-04.
  5. ^
    New York Times
    . Retrieved 2009-05-06.
  6. ^
    Above the Law. Retrieved 2009-05-06.[dead link
    ]
  7. ^ Matthew C. Waxman, Columbia Law School bio Archived 2008-10-01 at the Wayback Machine
  8. ^ Roger Hertog Program, Faculty and Leadership
  9. ^
    New York Times. Archived from the original
    on 2010-09-09. Retrieved 2010-08-28. Optically, this has been a terrible case to begin the commissions with…There is a great deal of international skepticism and hostility toward military commissions, and this is a very tough case with which to push back against that skepticism and hostility.
  10. ^ Norman Spector (2010-08-28). "On Omar Khadr, even Bushies are biting Obama". The Globe and Mail. Archived from the original on 2010-08-29. Retrieved 2010-08-28. Mr.Waxman, it turns out, was the Pentagon's top official responsible for detainee affairs in the George W. Bush administration.
  11. ^ Temple-Raston, Dina, "Sept. 11 Case A Litmus Test For Military Commissions", National Public Radio, January 5, 2012. Retrieved 2012-01-05.
  12. ^ "Former Republican National Security Officials for Biden". Defending Democracy Together. 20 August 2020. Retrieved 26 August 2021.

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