About the Author

• Author: Arthur Rizer
• Profession: Director of Justice Policy and a senior fellow at the R Street Institute
• Pages: 263-263

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Arthur Rizer is an Associate Professor of Law at

College of Law, West Virginia University (WVU).

Before joining the faculty at WVU Law, Rizer

worked at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ)

for nine years as a trial attorney. His most recent

assignment at DOJ was as a prosecutor in the

Criminal Division working on narcotics and

national security cases, primarily focused on inter-

national drug cartels and narco-terrorists. His

other postingsat DOJ included national security

litigator with Federal Program’s Guantanamo Bay

Litigation Team; prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney’s Oce for the Southern Dis-

trict of California; and civil litigator with the Oce of Immigration Litigation.

Rizer started his legal career as a federal judicial law clerk in the

U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania. He has also

taught at Georgetown University Law Center as an Adjunct Professor of

Law and currently holds an appointment as a Visiting Professor of Law.

Before law school, Rizer served as a Military Police and Armor ocer in the

reserve and active U.S. Army. He retired as a Lieutenant Colonel from the

West Virginia National Guard. In the military, Rizer was deployed to

Fallujah, Iraq, where he helped train the Iraqi Army to ght the insurgency

and was awarded the Bronze Star and Purple Heart Medals. Also before law

school, Rizer worked as a civilian police ocer in Washington State.

Rizer earned LLM, with distinction, from Law Center, Georgetown

University and his JD, magna cum laude, from School of Law, Gonzaga

University. He is also a graduate of the U.S. Marine Corps’ Command Sta

College. He is currently a D.Phil candidate in Criminology at the University

of Oxford, Faculty of Law.