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 “Syracuse University”.

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