Captain Glenn M. Sulmasy (USCG)

Fellow for Homeland and National Security Law
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Captain Sulmasy is Chairman of the Humanities Department at the United States Coast Guard Academy. He is a professor of law, judge advocate and a member of the Academy’s Permanent Commissioned Teaching Staff (PCTS). He coordinates and teaches international law and constitutional law. Previous military tours have included USCGC GALLATIN (WHEC-721), USS Dwight D. EISENHOWER (CVN-69) Battle Group during the Persian Gulf War, executive officer of USCGC MORRO BAY (WTGB-106), Office of the Judge Advocate General, USCG Headquarters, Deputy University Counsel at USCGA, Special Assistant US Attorney (D. Ct.), National Security Fellow/Aide to former Congressman Rob Simmons, Assistant Professor of Law and Governmental Affairs Officer at USCGA, Visiting Fellow at the Heritage Foundation and Professor of International Law at US Naval War College.

Captain Sulmasy received his BS in government from the U. S. Coast Guard Academy in 1988, earned his JD cum laude from the University of Baltimore School of Law (on full academic scholarship), his LL.M in national security law from Berkeley Law School (Boalt Hall) and attended the Harvard Kennedy School. He served on the adjunct faculty of Roger Williams University School of Law from 2000-2005 where he taught courses in Military Law and Homeland Security Law. He serves on the Advisory Board of the Center of International and Comparative Law (Balt., Md) and on the Executive Committee for the National Security and International Law Practice Group for the Federalist Society. In 2005, he was appointed to the Northeast Regional Ocean’s Council by Governor M. Jodi Rell and also served on the Governor's Military Staff from 2004-2009. CAPT Sulmasy has advised various members of Congress, as well as key members of the Executive branch on myriad matters involving national security.

Captain Sulmasy has been a National Security and Human Rights Fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University. He has written and lectured widely on national security and constitutional law and frequently is a guest on National Public Radio and other national radio and television outlets. His articles have appeared in numerous law journals as well as the LA Times, New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, New York Post, Hartford Courant and the Boston Globe among others. He is co-editor of International Law Challenges: Homeland Security and Combating Terrorism and the author of The National Security Court System – A Natural Evolution of Justice in an Age of Terror (Oxford University Press 2009).

Recent Blog Posts

• Boston and Terror
  Apr 16, 2013
  
  

• Drones, the Law, and the President
  Feb 7, 2013
  
  

• ON TRIAL: Security v. Liberty in Gitmo
  Jan 31, 2013
  
  

• How Will Candidates Meet Foreign Challenges?
  Sep 6, 2012
  
  

• Iran and Israel and the Straits of Hormuz
  Jul 3, 2012
  
  

• Hard Diplomacy Key To Syrian Crisis
  Jun 4, 2012
  
  

• The 21st Century Wild, Wild West - The Arctic
  May 29, 2012
  
  

• KSM and the Trial (well, military commission) of the Century
  May 25, 2012
  
  

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