William C. Banks is Syracuse University College of Law Board of

Advisors Distinguished Professor and SU Maxwell School of
Citizenship and Public Affairs Professor of Public Administration

and International Affairs. During 2015-2016, Banks was Interim

Dean of Syracuse Law. The Founding Director of the Institute for

National Security and Counterterrorism at SU, under his leadership,

INSCT has risen from its inception in 2003 to become a recognized

leader in research and education on national and international

security and terrorism. Banks is the co-author of leading books in

the field of national security and counterterrorism law and policy,

including Soldiers on the Home Front: The Domestic Role of the

American Military (Harvard, 2016); New Battlefields/Old Laws:

Critical Debates on Asymmetric Warfare (Columbia, 2011); and

the casebooks National Security Law (Aspen, 2012) and 

Counterterrorism Law (Aspen, 2011). Photo credit

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