The Human Rights and National Security Law Program is the latest edition to William and Mary's array of well-respected programs for specialized study.

Developed in the shadow of a complex global landscape, the Human Rights and National Security Law Program's core objective is creating citizen lawyers with an appreciation for national security issues through educating and exposing students to the interplay between national defense and the protection of civil rights.

The program is enhanced by a wide range of related classes and seminars that provide a strong basis for legal education in this area of study. Further, reflected in its Distinguished Lecturer Series and in those symposia that the program co-sponsors, the Human Rights and National Security Law Program proudly provides a forum for healthy discussion of national security law related matters.

In conjunction with the Courtroom 21 Project, the program is able to explore courtroom technology and advanced legal forensics to meet the growing needs of international law and alternative dispute resolution.

These aspects of the program synthesize to generate an academic structure for a sophisticated and practical understanding of national security law and human rights issues that face the national and the international community.

About the Director

Linda A. Malone is the Marshall-Wythe Foundation Professor of Law at the College of William and Mary School of Law. She is also the Director of the Human Rights and National Security Law Program.

Over the course of her career, Professor Malone has worked extensively in various aspects of international law. She specializes in international environmental law, international human rights and national security law, international criminal law, and women’s and children’s rights in international law.
        

She is also the author of numerous articles in a wide range of publications and has authored and co-authored a number of books on international law and human rights. Her most recent book, Defending the Environment: Civil Society Strategies to Enforce International Environmental Law, was mass-marketed by Island Press in 2006.
Professor Malone is a member of the Environmental Commission of the World Conservation Union (IUCN), serves on the Board of Directors for the International Society for the Reform of Criminal Law, is a member of the American Law Institute, and is an officer in the American national section of the International Association of Penal Law. In the past she was a delegate to the United Nations Conference on the Environment and Development in Rio, co-counsel to Bosnia-Herzegovina in its genocide case against Serbia and Montenegro before the World Court, co-counsel to Paraguay in its challenge to the death penalty in Parguay v Virginia before the Supreme Court and the World Court, and co-counsel for amicus in the Supreme Court in Padilla v Rumsfeld and Hamdan v Rumsfeld. also the Associate Editor of the Yearbook of International Environmental Law. She is currently one of four professors in the United States serving as an academic consultatnt to the Regime Crimes Liaison Office of the Department of Justice and the Iraqi High Tribunal trying Saddam Hussein. She also teaches clinics in which students do legal work for all of the current international tribunals such as the International Criminal Court and the UN International Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda.
        

Linda A. Malone has been the recognized as a leader in international legal matters and litigation and has received several awards for her service. In 1998 she received the Fulbright/OSCE Regional Research Award for her work on women’s and children’s rights in Eastern Europe. In 2002 she received a grant from the National Endowment for Humanities, State Department and International Research and Exchange Board in continuance for her work. In 2000 she received the Millenium Award from the Virginia Women’s Bar Association for her work on women’s rights internationally. She is also on the Board of Advisors of Karamah, a non-profit organization of Muslim women lawyers for human rights. She is a frequent speaker locally, nationally, and internationally, and a frequent commentator for newspapers and other media outlets.
        

Professor Malone received her B.S. from Vassar, her J.D. from Duke, where she was Research and Managing Editor of the Duke Law Journal, and her LL.M. from the University of Illinois.

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