Dan Maurer

Daniel Maurer is Associate Professor of Law, teaching Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure – Adjudication, and various national security law courses. He is also a Fellow with the National Institute of Military Justice and Advisor for the Center for Military Law and Policy at Texas Tech University School of Law. His research and writing focus on the intersection of civil-military relations theory and constitutional separation of powers, military justice theory and reform, and international humanitarian law (the law of war). He is the author of Crisis, Agency, and Law in US Civil-Military Relations (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) and the co-editor of Reconsidering American Civil-Military Relations: The Military, Society, Politics, and Modern War (Oxford University Press, 2021). His scholarly articles have appeared in leading journals, including American Criminal Law Review, Harvard National Security Journal, Maryland Law Review, Ohio State Law Journal, the Journal of National Security Law & Policy, the Federal Sentencing Reporter, University of Richmond Law Review, and the Ohio State Journal on Dispute Resolution, among others. His article at University of Illinois Law Review Online received the Kevin J. Barry Award from the National Institute of Military Justice in 2022. Dan also contributes to the public debate on contemporary legal issues at curated online venues like Lawfare, Just Security, and Articles of War.

Prior to joining Ohio Northern, Dan served for twenty-two years as an active-duty Army officer, first as combat engineer and later as a judge advocate (military lawyer), including two combat deployments and a Strategy Fellowship with the Chief of Staff of the Army at the Pentagon. In addition to advising senior Army commanders and coaching foreign partner nation military lawyers in international law and the law of armed conflict, he has prosecuted felony-level cases at courts-martial, argued appellate cases before the Army Court of Criminal Appeals and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, and was the chief prosecutor at a large midwestern Army installation supervising and mentoring six junior prosecutors. His most recent assignments prior to transitioning to civilian academia include teaching constitutional and criminal law at the U.S. Military Academy (West Point) for three years and various national security law subjects at The Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center and School in Charlottesville, Virginia, for two years.

Originally from Maryland, Dan grew up in an Army family and called – at one time or another – seven states and Italy “home” (and, during his military service, another five states and Italy a second time). He earned his B.A. from James Madison University, where he was an ROTC scholarship recipient and a Distinguished Military Graduate. Under a scholarship from the Army’s Funded Legal Education Program, Dan earned his J.D. from The Ohio State University after his first combat tour, and later his LL.M. from The Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center and School. Licensed to practice in Ohio, he is also a member of the bars of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces and the U.S. Supreme Court.

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