Michel Paradis

Michel is a leading human rights lawyer, historian, and national security law scholar. Most recently he was the author of the critically acclaimed The Light of Battle: Eisenhower, D-Day, and the Birth of the American Superpower, and 2020's Last Mission to Tokyo. He is a partner at Steptoe LLP and a Lecturer at Columbia Law School. He has appeared on or written for the PBS NewsHour, CBS, MSNBC, CNBC, C-SPAN, Netflix, NPR, The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Lawfare, Just Security, Articles of War, among other publications. He is a Contributing Editor at Lawfare and serves on the board of the National Institute for Military Justice. He was awarded his doctorate from Oxford University, where he was a Campion Scholar, and received his law degree from Fordham Law School in New York.