Kyndra Rotunda Visiting Assistant Professor Chapman University School of Law One University Drive, Orange, California  92866

B.A. University of Wyoming
J.D. University of Wyoming College of Law

KYNDRA ROTUNDA, is a Professor at Chapman School of Law and  author of HONOR BOUND: INSIDE THE GUANTANAMO TRIALS, which is published by Carolina Academic Press (June 2008) and is available on Amazon.  

Professor Rotunda is the founding Director of the Chapman Law School Military Personnel Law Center & AmVets Clinic, which launched in January, 2009.  Students under her direction represent active duty military families, and veterans, in all types of civil legal disputes with a particular emphasis on combat wounded troops. 

Rotunda formerly directed the Clinic for Legal Assistance to Service members at George Mason School of Law. 

Professor Rotunda is regarded as a leading expert in military law and has recovered hundreds of thousands of dollars for wounded troops.   She has coordinated with the National Veteran’s Legal Services Program (a National Veterans Group) to produce instructional DVDs, and to author a corresponding outline, about military disability law. These materials are used to help train lawyers around the country. 

Rotunda began her career in the US Army JAG Corps.  She remains in the Army Reserves and holds the rank of Major.  Rotunda has served in several missions related to the Global War on Terror.  She served in Guantanamo Bay; was the legal advisor to a team of investigators pursuing leads in the war on terror; served as a prosecutor at the Office of Military Commissions; and represented wounded troops at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. She was the lawyer assigned to Jessica Lynch after Lynch’s rescue.

Professor Rotunda is an avid writer and soldier advocate.  She has written op-eds for the Christian Science Monitor, The Wall Street Journal, The Chicago Tribune, The Washington Time and The New York Sun, and has been interviewed and quoted in major newspapers, including USA Today and The Washington Post.   

Rotunda is also a regular radio and television commentator regarding military law, and the ongoing trials in Guantanamo Bay.  She has appeared on over 20 nationally syndicated radio shows, including the Michael Reagan Show, the Dennis Miller Show and the Jim Bohannan Show.  Rotunda has also appeared on national and international television news programs, including Hannity’s America, the Brit Hume Report, and Al Jazeera.
 
Rotunda has also testified before Congress about issues related to Guantanamo Bay, and issues impacting U.S. troops.

Courses Taught: Law of War, Family Violence Clinic