Gregory S. McNeal is a professor at Pepperdine University. His research focuses on the institutions and challenges associated with global security, with a particular substantive focus on criminal law and procedure, national security law and international criminal law.
His legal scholarship has been published by The Northwestern University Law Review, The Richmond Law Review, and various top ranked international law and policy journals. His co-edited book Saddam On Trial: Understanding and Debating the Iraqi High Tribunal was selected as one of three finalists for L’Association Internationale de Droit Penal’s 2007 Book of the Year Award. During and after the trial of Saddam Hussein, excerpts from the book were translated into Arabic, and in an effort at judicial outreach, were read over the radio to the Iraqi people. He is co-author of the forthcoming book Counterterrorism Law Across Borders: Differing Perspectives on Rights and Security.
Professor McNeal is the Editor in Chief of The National Security Report, a publication of The American Bar Association’s Standing Committee on Law and National Security. His non-academic writing has appeared in publications such as The New York Times, The Washington Times, and The Baltimore Sun. He has appeared on NPR, BBC, C-SPAN and other national media outlets as an expert commentator on counterterrorism and international law and has been quoted by The New York Times and The Associated Press.
Previously, Professor McNeal co-directed a transnational counterterrorism program for the U.S. Department of Justice. He also served as an advisor to the Chief Prosecutor of the Department of Defense Office of Military Commissions on matters related to the prosecution of suspected terrorists held in the detention facility in Guantanamo Bay Cuba. He has advised or consulted with the staff of Congressional committees, members of both houses of Congress, Fortune 500 Companies, The Iraqi High Tribunal, and members of the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs on counterterrorism, national security and international criminal law matters.
As an Academic Fellow with the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies he completed their Israel based counterterrorism training and educational program and lectures frequently on numerous college campuses regarding national security.
Previously Professor McNeal served as an officer in the U.S. Army. In law school, he was executive editor for The Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy (Symposium Edition).
Gregory McNeal Pepperdine Biography
