Phone: 434-924-4083

E-mail: bobturner@virginia.edu

Subject Area(s): National security law, foreign affairs, presidential powers, terrorism, war on terrorism, war and peace, constitutional law, American foreign policy

All Courses: Advanced Topics in National Security Law I & II, War and Peace: New Thinking About the Causes of War and War Avoidance

Current Course(s): Legal And Policy Issues Of The Indochina War

In the Media:

• "CIA Terror War Torture And Rendition Program: An Italian Spy Is Sentenced To Jail - Can Tenet, Rumsfeld, Cheney, Ashcroft Be Next?" (International Business Times, 02/22/2013)
• "Drones: Los Aviones No Tripulados Qee Están Revolucionando La Forma Tradicional De Hacer La Guerra" (La Segunda, 01/11/2013)
• "Reasonable Doubt" (The Weekly Standard, 10/29/2012)
• "Turner: 'Welcome Home' Vietnam Veterans" (Author) (The Washington Times, 05/25/2012)
• "Legal Scholars Skeptical of Obama’s So-Called ‘Recess’ Appointments When Congress Wasn’t in Recess" (CNS News, 01/06/2012)
• "White House Says Limits on War Powers Don't Apply to U.S. Mission in Libya" ( Bloomberg News, 06/16/2011)
• "Was Killing bin Laden Legal?" (Salon, 05/04/2011)
• "U.Va. National Security Law Experts: Killing of bin Laden Was Legal" (News Leader, 05/03/2011)
• "California Mosque Mole Erodes Trust Between Muslims, FBI" (Hussam Ayloush Official Blog, 12/07/2010)
• "SACEI Person of the Year Award" (Saigon Arts, Culture & Education Institute, 10/17/2010)
• "Not a Massacre but a Mistake" (Washington Times, 10/12/2010)
• "Convictions Hard to Get in Cases Like Blackwater's" (Virginian-Pilot, 09/13/2010)
• "Can the CIA Put a U.S.-Born al Qaeda Figure on Its 'Kill List'?" (U.S. News & World Report, 09/08/2010)
• "Our Lawbreaking Congress / House Shenanigans over Obamacare Are Nothing New" (Washington Times, 03/19/2010)
• "Rights Groups Renew Condemnation of Afghan Amnesty Bill" (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 02/24/2010)
• "Reassessing the Causes: Gulf of Tonkin Incident Not the Real Start" (Washington Times, 08/02/2009)
• "GOP Tries to Blunt Dem Assault on Bush-Era Officials as Senate Panel Debates Use of 'Torture'" (Fox News, 05/13/2009)
• "Obama Says He'll Cut Back on Tactic Bush Used to Sidestep New Laws" (New York Times, 03/10/2009)
• " 'Truth Commission' Duplicity?" (The Washington Times, 03/03/2009)
• "Holder Confirmation Won't End Torture Questions" (Associated Press, 01/28/2009)
• "Did Bush Officials Commit War Crimes? Maybe, but Trials Aren't Likely" (McClatchy Newspapers, 01/04/2009)
• "Legal Symposium Focuses on Terrorism" (Topeka Capital Journal, 11/14/2008)
• Real Lessons of Vietnam" (co-author) (Washington Times, 07/13/2008)
• "The War Powers Debate " (On Point (National Public Radio), 07/09/2008)
• "Pushing PC Nonsense" (author) (Washington Times, 03/03/2008)
• "UVA Prof Defends Domestic Government Spying" (C-Ville Weekly, 02/26/2008)
• "FISA & the Rule of Law" (author) (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, 02/24/2008)
• "Consequences Mostly Unclear for Expiration of Temporary Surveillance Law" (CQ Politics, 02/12/2008)
• "Analysis: CIA Tape Case Evokes Watergate" (Associated Press, 12/19/2007)
• "Torture Nuances Stall Mukasey Nomination" (Associated Press, 11/03/2007)
• "FISA Law Irrelevant, Unconstitutional, Critics Say" (Cybercast News Service (CNSNews.com), 10/31/2007)
• "The Surveillance Law That Matters" (author) (Wall Street Journal, 10/24/2007)
• “Some Worry That Federal Charges Could Erode Freedom of Press” (Baltimore Daily Record, 09/17/2007)
• "Editorial: Listening In" (Wall Street Journal, 09/08/2007)
• "Debate Turns to Telecom Immunity" (Wall Street Journal, 09/08/2007)
• "Dems Regroup to Overhaul FISA" (The Hill, 09/06/2007)
• "At FISA Hearing, Little New, but Some Interesting Moments" (Salon, 09/05/2007)
• “House Tackles Surveillance Law” (Cox News Service, 09/05/2007)
• "Alberto Gonzales Resigns" (NPR's On Point, 08/27/2007)
• "Military Cites Risk of Abuse by CIA/New Bush Rules on Detainees Stir Concern" (Boston Globe, 08/25/2007)