Brian L. Cox
| Degrees: | L.L.M. (Queen's), B.A. (North Carolina), J.D. (North Carolina) |
| Website: | https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=uzQmhgUAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=sra |
Biography
Brian L. Cox is an adjunct professor of law at Cornell Law School, a graduate research fellow for the Centre for International and Defence Policy at Queen’s University, and he retired from the U.S. Army in 2018 after twenty-two years of military service. His research and writing projects as a law professor often engage with news media coverage of topics related to national defence and international security. Studying journalism will add a multi-disciplinary perspective for his work as a law professor while also bringing nearly three decades of experience in the defence and security sector to the journalism profession.
Brian has obtained an LLM from Queen’s Law and a BA (International Relations) and JD from the University of North Carolina. His military awards, decorations, and qualifications include the Ranger Tab, Senior Parachutist Badge, Pathfinder Badge, Air Assault Badge, Bronze Star Medal, Meritorious Service Medal, NATO Medal, Intelligence Law Certification, Special Victim Unit Investigator Certification, Basic and Advanced Collateral Damage Estimation Certification, Weapons Law and the Legal Review of Weapons Certification, Joint Firepower Certification, and Joint Intermediate Target Development Certification. Brian deployed to Iraq in 2003-04 as a combat camera operator and to Afghanistan in 2013-14 as an operational law attorney and then the Chief of International and Operational Law for Regional Command-East.
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