Michel Paradis
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Michel Paradis | |
|---|---|
| Citizenship | American |
| Education | Oxford (DPhil) Fordham (JD/BA) |
| Occupations | Human Rights Lawyer, Historian, Professor |
Michel Paradis is an American human rights attorney, law professor, and author. He has written several books, most notably The Light of Battle, a biography of Dwight Eisenhower, and Last Mission to Tokyo, about the war crimes trials following the Doolittle Raid during World War II.[1]
In 2004, Paradis received his Juris Doctor from Fordham University in New York.[2] In 2011, he received his Doctor of Philosophy in computational linguistics from Oxford University, where he did foundational research on large language models and Mixture of Experts techniques.[2][3][4] While at Oxford, he was also an editor of the Oxonian Review.[5]
Legal career
Paradis has worked as a human rights lawyer on conflicts arising around the world and the human rights implications of emerging technology.[2][6][7][8][9][10][11]
In 2007, Paradis joined the Department of Defense as an attorney, where he worked on the cases of the Guantanamo detainees.[12] In 2014, Paradis won the Ali al-Bahlul case in the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit,[13] which established the applicability of the ex post facto clause in Guantanamo.[14] In 2019, Paradis won the case of In re Al-Nashiri,[15] which invalidated five years of proceedings against Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri on the ground that the military judge had committed misconduct.[16][17] Paradis was featured in the Netflix documentary Turning Point: 9/11 and the War on Terror where he was critical of the human rights consequences of the war on terror.[4][18][19][unreliable source?][20]
In 2025, Paradis was elected as a Partner at Steptoe, where he specializes in National Security law and Artificial intelligence.[21] He is a Lecturer at Columbia Law School in New York, where he teaches national security law and jurisprudence.[4][11][22] He is also a Contributing Editor at Lawfare.[23]
