The Law of Conflict: International Law in a Combat Environment
Cortland Lecture Hall (Dineen 340)
The Maxwell School is a graduate school of social science with a unique multidisciplinary character that cuts across traditional departmental lines. At Maxwell, theory and practice are regarded with equal seriousness: the barriers that divide academic disciplines from one another and from the larger world of public life are routinely breached by the wide-ranging scholarly and educational activities of an outstanding faculty and an exceptionally cosmopolitan student body
CPT Brian L. Cox is the brigade judge advocate (BJA) for the Division Artillery (DIVARTY) brigade of the 10th Mountain Division at Fort Drum, NY, a position he’s held since October 2015. As the BJA for DIVARTY, he is the primary legal advisor for the joint fires enterprise for the division. Before his current assignment, Cox was the trial counsel for 2nd Brigade Combat Team at Fort Drum from March 2014 until October 2015. His additional duties at Fort Drum include serving as a Special Assistant US Attorney and as a field screening officer. Before coming to Fort Drum, Cox was an international and operational law advisor and chief of operational law for more than two years for the 101st Airborne Division at Fort Campbell, KY, which included an 11-month combat deployment to Bagram, Afghanistan. Cox also served as a legal assistance attorney, administrative law attorney, and as a military magistrate while stationed at Fort Campbell.
Open to the public. Lunch will be served.
Co-sponsored by the Student Association on Terrorism and Security Analysis and the Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism