Yale's Eugene Fidell to Speak Thursday on Military Justice

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Feb. 2, 2016) — The University of Kentucky College of Law will welcome Order of the Coif Distinguished Visitor Eugene R. Fidell, of Yale Law School, to campus Thursday, Feb. 4, for a lecture on military justice and its reform. Fidell, who is representing Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl in his military desertion case, is a senior research scholar and the Florence Rogatz Visiting Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School.

The lecture will begin at 5 p.m. in the College of Law Courtroom and is free and open to the public. Robert Farley, assistant professor in the Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce, will moderate.

Since graduation from Harvard Law School in 1968, Fidell has been a partner at LeBoeuf, Lamb, Leiby & MacRae and Feldesman Tucker Leifer Fidell LLP, where he is currently of counsel. He served in the U.S. Coast Guard from 1969 to 1972 as a judge advocate, and has continued to be actively involved in military legal matters, serving from 1991 to 2011 as president of the National Institute of Military Justice. He began teaching at Yale in 1993, and has also taught at Harvard Law School and the American University Washington College of Law.

Fidell is a Life Member of the American Law Institute. He has written on labor, environmental, energy and military law, as well as judicial administration, and often serves as a commentator for domestic and foreign news media.

MEDIA CONTACT: Whitney Harder, 859-323-2396, whitney.harder@uky.edu