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Office: Tilton Hall #196
Tel: 419-772-2223
Fax: 419-772-3514
Email: m-lewis@onu.edu
Curriculum Vita
Professor Lewis joined the Ohio Northern faculty in August, 2006. Lewis flew F-14's for the United States Navy in Operation Desert Shield, conducted
strike planning for Desert Storm and was deployed to the Persian Gulf to enforce
the no-fly zone over Iraq. He was a Topgun graduate in 1992 and was
featured in a NOVA documentary on Topgun and aircraft carriers.
After his naval service Lewis graduated from Harvard Law School, cum laude, was a management consultant with McKinsey and Company and served as a litigation associate with McGuireWoods, LLP, in Norfolk, Virginia.
Professor Lewis received the Award for Excellence in Classroom Teaching for the 2007-08 academic year.
He currently teaches Commercial Law, International Law, a Law of War Seminar and Corporate Finance. His other teaching interests include Civil Procedure, Contracts and Torts.
“Comedy or Tragedy: The Tale of Diversity Jurisdiction Removal and the One-Year Bar” 62 Southern Methodist University Law Review, forthcoming
“Advice to the Next Administration Regarding Coercive Interrogation” 30 ABA National Security Law Report 18 (Sep/Oct. 2008).
“Applying the Geneva Conventions to Low Intensity Armed Conflicts” ILSA Quarterly, April 2008.
“International Myopia: Hamdan’s Shortcut to ‘Victory’” 42 University of Richmond Law Review 687 (2008).
“The Law of Armed Conflict – A Contemporary Critique” 6 Melbourne Journal of International Law 55 (2005) (with CDR Dale Stephens, Royal Australian Navy) (2005) (faculty reviewed journal)
“The Law of Aerial Bombardment in the 1991 Gulf War” 97 American Journal of International Law 481 (2003) (faculty reviewed journal)
South Texas College of Law , Panelist, September 2008
Symposium panelist with Prof. Bobby Chesney of the University of Texas, Col. Morris the lead prosecutor for the military commissions in Guantanamo, Prof. Geoff Corn of South Texas College of Law, and Jeanne Baker the head of the Florida ACLU. The discussion compared the efficacy of the criminal prosecution model with the military detention model in combating terrorism.
Duquesne University School of Law , Debate, April 2008
Debate with Prof. Charles Swift of Emory Law School on the Hamdan opinion. Debate moderated by Dean Donald Guter (former head of the Navy JAG Corps) of Duquesne.
Drake University School of Law , Panelist, April 2008
Panel discussion with Profs. Angela Campbell and Gordon Allen of Drake on the legality of coercive interrogation techniques.
University of Cincinnati School of Law , Debate, March 2008
Debate with Prof. Mark Denbeaux of Seton Hall School of Law on detainee treatment issues.
University of Maryland School of Law , Debate, March 2008
Debate with Dean Michael van Alstine of the University of Maryland School of Law on the limits of executive power during wartime.
William & Mary Marshall-Wythe School of Law , Panelist, March 2008
Panel discussion with Professor Jeremy Rabkin of George Mason School of Law on legal issues in the war on terror.
University of Florida School of Law , Debate, March 2008
Debate with Michael Pheneger of the Florida ACLU on detainee treatment issues.
Boston University School of Law , Lecture, December 2007
Lectured on the obstacles to US acceptance of ICC jurisdiction created by the increasing politicization of International Humanitarian Law.
Harvard Law School , Lecture, December 2007
Lectured on jus in bello and discussed critiques of its effectiveness in the Persian Gulf War for Prof. David Kennedy’s International Law class.
University of Pittsburgh College of Law , Debate, November 2007
Debate with Prof. Marjorie Cohn (Thomas Jefferson) of the National Lawyers Guild on the Khadr case.
University of Akron School of Law , Debate, November 2007
Debate with Prof. Huhn ( Akron) on the Definition of Torture and the Mukasey Nomination.
Duke University School of Law, Law, Ethics and National Security Conference,Conference Panel, April 2007 Participated in panel discussion on Domestic Spying and the proposed amendments to FISA, moderated by Prof. Kinkopf with Prof. Schroeder, Prof. Banks and Mary DeRosa of the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, Panel, April 2007 Participated in panel discussion on limits to interrogation in the War on Terror with Prof. Travalio and Prof. Alt.
William & Mary Marshall-Wythe School of Law, Debate, April 2007 Debate with Prof. Kinkopf on the Military Commissions Act and the separation of powers during wartime.
Boston College Law School , Debate, March 2007
Debate with Dean John Hutson of the Franklin Pierce Law Center on the Hamdan opinion, the Military Commissions Act and detainee habeas corpus rights. Moderated by Prof. Daniel Kanstroom of Boston College.
University of South Carolina School of Law, Lecture, March 2007 Lectured on “The Geneva Conventions and Hamdan v. Rumsfeld”
University of Hawai’i at Manoa, Richardson School of Law, Debate, February 2007
Debated with Eric Seitz, attorney for Lt. Ehren Watada regarding Watada’s refusal to deploy to Iraq on the grounds that the war is illegal both under US and international law.
Wayne State University School of Law, Debate, February 2007
Debated Professor Brad Roth on “ The Geneva Conventions and the Hamdan Decision”
UC Davis School of Law, Lecture, January 2007
Lectured on “The Geneva Conventions and Hamdan v. Rumsfeld”
American University – Washington College of Law, Symposium Panel, March 2005
Participated in panel discussion on the Geneva Conventions and the Rules of War.
Harvard Law School , Guest Lecturer on International Law, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004 Lectured on jus in bello and discussed critiques of its effectiveness in the Persian Gulf War.
Fordham University School of Law , Guest Lecturer on International Law, 2003
Lectured on concepts of the law of war and the intersection between jus in bello and jus ad bellum.
NYU School of Law, Guest Lecturer on International Law, 2001
Lectured on jus in bello in the Persian Gulf War air campaign.
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