» Ms. Kyndra K. Rotunda

Associate Professor, Executive Director, Institute for Military Personnel, Veterans, Human Rights & International Law & AMVETS Legal Clinic

Military Law and Policy Institute

Office:

328 N. Glassell Street, Orange CA 92866

Office Hours:

8AM-4:30PM

Phone:

714-628-2692

Email:

krotunda@chapman.edu

Website:

http://www.chapman.edu/research-and-institutions/military-law-institute/index.aspx

Education

University of Wyoming, Bachelor of Arts
University of Wyoming, Juris Doctor

Biography

Kyndra Rotunda is an Associate Professor of Military & International Law and Executive Director of the Institute for Military Personnel, Veterans, Human Rights and International Law & AMVETS Legal Clinic. She is also a Lecturer at Berkeley School of Law.

Professor Rotunda is the author of several books including,  Honor Bound: Inside the Guantanamo Trials ( Carolina Academic Press, June 2008),  Military & Veterans Law (Thomson/West Publishing, May 2011) and Transformative Client Interview and Counseling, which will be published in 2012 (Carolina Academic Press.)

Professor Rotunda is the founding Director of the AMVETS Legal Clinic which launched in January, 2009. Institute Faculty and Clinical Fellows 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. 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.

Professor Rotunda has also published several law review articles in Law Reviews journals throughout the U.S., and her work has been widely quoted in the national press and law journals such as Columbia Law Review, Stanford Law Review, Minnesota Law Review, Southern Methodist University Law Review, Temple Law Review and Vanderbilt Law Review.

Rotunda began her career in the US Army JAG Corps, where she held the rank of Major. She 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's op-eds have appeared in newspapers such as The Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, The Chicago Tribune, The Washington Times, The New York Sun, and The Orange County Register.

Rotunda is a regular radio and television commentator regarding military law, and the ongoing trials in Guantanamo Bay. She has appeared on numerous nationally syndicated radio and television shows, such as Al Jazeera, Fox News, the Michael Reagan Show, the Dennis Miller Show and the Jim Bohannan Show Hannity's America, and the Brit Hume Report.

Rotunda has also testified before Congress about issues related to Guantanamo Bay, and issues impacting U.S. troops.

Recent Creative, Scholarly Work and Publications

A Short Comment on Current Detainee Policy: One Step Forward and Two Steps Back, 3 AKRON J. of CONSTITUTIONAL LAW & POLICY, 41 (2012)

Air Force Off base on Dismissals, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, (Josh Flynn-Brown and Kyndra Miller Rotunda, January 6, 2012 (letter to editor)

The Danger Zone, Television Interview, March 26, 2012

IN HER BOOTS, Chapman University Community Voices Documentary Film, Film Consultant, May 2012

MILITARY AND VETERANS LAW (Thomson/West, May 2011)

Geneva Conventions Support Keeping Gitmo Open, THE JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE, January 21, 2011 (op-ed)

Stop encouraging female soldiers to wear headscarves in Afghanistan, THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE, April 8, 2011 (op-ed)

No vote for you – how the US disenfranchises America’s heroes, LOS ANGELES DAILY JOURNAL, Thursday, August 25, 2011 at p. 1, (op-ed)

The Air Force Grounds its Officers, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, Josh Flynn-Brown and Kyndra Miller Rotunda, December 28, 2011 (op-ed)

ABC News Channel 10, Television Interview, Military Voting Statistics, September 4, 2011

Halting Military Trials in Guantanamo Bay: Can the President Call a Time Out? 19 MICHIGAN STATE JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW, 95 (Fall 2010.)

Kagan’s Anti-Military Campaign, THE WASHINGTON TIMES, May 19, 2010 (op-ed)

Applying Geneva Convention Principles to Guantanamo Bay, 43 UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND LAW REVIEW 1067 (2009)

A Comparative Historical Analysis of War Time Procedural Protections: From The Civil War To The War on Terror, 12 CHAPMAN LAW REVIEW 449 (2009)

Don’t Smear our Troops: Homeland Security Report suggests ex-warriors could Attack the U.S., ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER, April 26, 2009 (op-ed_

U.S. Soldiers are Heroes, not Terrorists: Homeland Security Warning is Unjustified, CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR, April 23, 2009 (op-ed)

Dialogue with Doti and Dodge, March 31, 2009 (Recipient of the Bronze Telly Award, 2011.)

Honor Bound, Inside the Guantanamo Trials, Kyndra Miller Rotunda, Carolina Academic Press, June 2008.

The Origins and Original Meaning of the Spending Clause, ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES, Vol. 4, at p. 437 (Gale Cengage Learning, Macmillan Reference, David S. Tanehaus, ed., 2008)

Supreme Court Ruling Puts Soldiers at Risk, CHICAGO TRIBUNE, June 20, 2008 at p. 23 (op-ed).

Don’t Close Gitmo, WASHINGTON TIMES, June 23, 2008, at A24 (op-ed)

Gitmo Russia, and China: Fair Trial, NEW YORK SUN, August 15, 2008, at p. 7 (op-ed)

Provided testimony before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee regarding Restoring the Rule of Law, Washington, D.C., September 16, 2008.

Federal News Today, Washington News Channel 8, June 16, 2008

The Riz Khan Show, Al Jazeera, June 16, 2008

Hannity’s America, Fox News, June 25, 2008