Kristine Huskey

Board Member

Kristine Huskey is the Director of the Veterans Advocacy Law Clinic at the University of Arizona, James E. Roger College of Law. In addition to teaching clinical legal education, Kristine also teaches international human rights law, national security law and the laws of armed conflict. Prior to joining the Arizona Law faculty, Kristine taught national security and international human rights and humanitarian law at law schools across the country and globally. She was the founding director of the National Security Clinic at the University of Texas School of Law and taught in the international human rights clinics at Washington College of Law American University and George Washington University Law School. She has also taught at Georgetown University Law Center, Howard University, and Victoria University Law School in Wellington, New Zealand.

Kristine writes on issues involving veterans, criminal justice, international human rights, military affairs, and national and international security, such as detention under the laws of war, enemy combatants, torture, and private military and security contractors in wartime. She is proud of her family's history of military service as both of her parents are veterans - her father is a Vietnam Vet and her mother a former army nurse. One of her grandfathers flew B-17s during World War II and her other grandfather, a native Philipino who survived the Bataan Death March during the Japanese invasion of the Philippines, was a US Army Scoutand retired after 20 years of service in the US military.

DEGREES

JD ‘97, University of Texas School of Law

BA ‘92, Columbia University