Education

J.D. Northwestern University School of Law (2001)
B.A. St. Olaf College, magna cum laude (1993)

Courses Taught

Civil Procedure
Administrative Law
National Security Law

Recent Scholarship

Affirmative Action in the Military, in AFFIRMATIVE ACTION: CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVES (James Beckman ed., Praeger, forthcoming 2012) (solicited book chapter)

A Realist Defense of the Alien Tort Statute, 88 Wash. U. L. Rev. 1117 (2011)

Bagram, Boumediene, and Limited Government, 59 DePaul L. Rev. 801 (2010) (with Marc D. Falkoff)

Responses to Ten Questions on National Security, 36 Wm. Mitchell L. Rev. 5061 (2010) (invited contribution)

American Hegemony and the Foreign Affairs Constitution, 41 Ariz. St. L.J. 87 (2009) (reviewed by the Constitutional Law Profs Blog, at http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/conlaw/2009/02/knowles-on-amer.html

Toward a Limited-Government Theory of Extraterritorial Detention, 62 N.Y.U. Ann. Surv. Am. L. 637 (2007) (with Marc D. Falkoff)

Detainee Policy and the Rule of Law: A Response, 48 Harv. Int”l L.J. Online 69 (2007)

The Balance of Forces and the Empire of Liberty: States’ Rights and the Louisiana Purchase, 88 Iowa L. Rev. 343 (2003)