B.A. (Philosophy), Queens College, City University of New York, 1965
Courses Taught
Admiralty Law
American Indian Tribal Law
Disasters
Guantanamo
Military Justice
Federal Indian Law
Law of the Sea
The Original Jurisdiction of the Supreme Court
Habeas Corpus
Russo-Ukrainian War
Eugene R. Fidell is a Visiting Lecturer at Yale Law School. In addition, he is of counsel at the Washington, D.C., firm Feldesman Leifer LLP, where his practice focuses on military law. He served in the U.S. Coast Guard following graduation from Harvard Law School, and co-founded the National Institute of Military Justice. His books include Military Justice: Cases and Materials and Military Justice: A Very Short Introduction. He has edited the Global Military Justice Reform blog since 2014 and has taught at Yale, Harvard, NYU, and the University of Virginia.
Florence Rogatz Visiting Lecturer in Law and Senior Research Scholar in Law Eugene Fidell is quoted in the New York Times about President Trump’s potential reversal of a Navy decision to strip a pardoned service member of his Navy SEAL status.
Florence Rogatz Visiting Lecturer in Law and Senior Research Scholar in Law Eugene Fidell is quoted in a Military.com article about President Donald Trump’s pardoning of three service members convicted or accused of war crimes.
Florence Rogatz Visiting Lecturer in Law and Senior Research Scholar in Law Eugene Fidell is quoted in an article about President Donald Trump’s pardoning of three service members convicted or accused of war crimes.
Florence Rogatz Visiting Lecturer in Law and Senior Research Scholar in Law Eugene Fidell is quoted in the Hilltop Monitor about President Trump issuing at least two pardons where U.S. service members have been accused of war crimes.
Florence Rogatz Visiting Lecturer in Law and Senior Research Scholar in Law Eugene Fidell is quoted in a Military Times article about his client Bowe Bergdahl, who has been granted a review of his case by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces.
Florence Rogatz Visiting Lecturer in Law and Senior Research Scholar in Law Eugene R. Fidell is quoted in MedPage Today about the limits of a Supreme Court case that bars active-duty service members from suing the government for negligence.
Florence Rogatz Visiting Lecturer in Law and Senior Research Scholar in Law Eugene R. Fidell is quoted about the impact of resuming federal capital punishment on the military justice system.
A federal appeals court agreed with the Ethics Bureau at Yale that the military judge in the USS Cole bombing case acted improperly, ruling that years of proceedings under that judge must be thrown out.
Florence Rogatz Visiting Lecturer in Law Eugene Fidell is quoted in an article about whether comments by President Trump created an “appearance of unlawful command influence” in the case of a former soldier convicted of desertion in military court.
Military Justice Cases and Materials (4th ed. 2023) (co-author)
Military Court Rules of the United States (9th ed. 2023) (co-author)
Guide to the Rules of Practice and Procedure for the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces (22d ed. 2023) (co-author)
Military Justice: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford 2016)
Recent Law Review Articles
"Military Justice and Modernity," 68 Villanova L. Review 737 (2024) (with James A. Young)
"The Case for Termination of the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces," 23 J. App. Practice & Proc. 263 (2023)
"Equal Supreme Court Access for Military Personnel: An Overdue Reform," 131 Yale L.J.F., May 31, 2021 (with Philip D. Cave & Brenner M. Fissell)
"Military Justice Since 1950: A Pyrrhic Victory?," 11 J. Nat’l Sec. L. & Pol’y Online Supp. (Apr. 29, 2021)
"The Constitution of 1787: What’s Essential?," 67 Syracuse L. Rev. 605 (2017)
"Winding (Back) the Crazy Clock: The Origins of a Benchslap," 19 Green Bag 2d 387 (2016) (with Dwight H. Sullivan)
"Competing Visions of Appellate Justice for Indian Country: A United States Court of Indian Appeals or an American Indian Supreme Court," 40 Amer. Indian L. Rev. 233 (2016)
"An American Indian Supreme Court," 2 Amer. Indian L.J. 1 (2013)
"No Sanctuary for Dictators," 38 Yale J. Int’l L. Online 46 (2013)