Faculty Experts

William Banks

Professor of Law Emeritus
Field

A highly regarded and听internationally recognized scholar,听topics of Banks鈥� wide-ranging research include national security and counterterrorism law; laws of war and asymmetric warfare; drones and targeted killing; transnational crime and corruption; cybersecurity, cyberespionage, and cyber conflict; human security; emergency and war powers; emergency preparedness and response; prosecuting terrorists; civilian-military relations; and government surveillance and privacy.听Banks is most recently the co-author (with Stephen Dycus) of听(Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2016). He is the author, co-author, and/or editor of numerous other titles, including National Security Law (Aspen, 2016) and Counterterrorism Law (Aspen, 2016)鈥攂ooks that have听helped set the parameters for these fields of study鈥攁s well as听Counterinsurgency Law: New Directions in Asymmetric Warfare(Oxford UP, 2012) and New Battlefields/Old Laws: Critical Debates on Asymmetric Warfare (Columbia UP, 2011).

The subjects of Banks鈥� more than 100 published听book chapters and articles range from the military use of unmanned aerial vehicles, to terrorism in South America, to the role of the military in domestic affairs. Recent writing includes 鈥淩egulating Cyber Conflict;鈥� 鈥淩egulating Drones: Military Law and CIA Practice and the Shifting Challenges of New Technologies;鈥� 鈥淓xceptional Courts in Counterterrorism: Lessons from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA);鈥� and 鈥淧rogrammatic Surveillance and FISA: Of Needles in Haystacks.鈥澨鼳dditionally, Banks has spearheaded numerous interdisciplinary research projects for INSCT, including ; ; and , a collaboration with the United Nations Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (UN CTED).