Professional Information:

A native of New York, Eugene R. Fidell graduated in 1965 from Queens College, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and in 1968 from Harvard Law School. His practice areas include federal administrative law and appeals and military justice, a field in which he frequently serves as a commentator for national and foreign news media. He is the Florence Rogatz Lecturer in Law and a Senior Research Scholar in Law at Yale Law School and President of the National Institute of Military Justice.

Current Employment Position:

Of Counsel

Year Joined Organization:

1984

Areas of Practice:

Appeals
Litigation
Military Law

Bar Admissions:

New York
District of Columbia
U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia
U.S. Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals Federal Circuit
U.S. Supreme Court
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces
U.S. Court of Federal Claims

Education:

Harvard University Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1968 LL.B.

Queens College, New York, 1965 B.A., Cum Laude 

Classes/Seminars Taught:

Florence Rogatz Visiting Lecturer in Law, Yale Law School

Florence Rogatz Lecturer in Law and Senior Research Scholar in Law, Yale Law School

Adjunct Professor, Washington College of Law

Visiting Lecturer, Harvard Law School

Published Works:

Evolving Military Justice, (Co-Editor), Naval Institute Press, 2002

Guide to the Rules of Practice and Procedure for the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, 13th ed., 2009

Annotated Guide: Procedures for Trials by Military Commissions of Certain Non-United States Citizens in the War Against Terrorism (Editor), LexisNexis, 2002

Military Commission Instructions Sourcebooks, (Editor), Vols. 1-2, 2003-04

Military Justice: Cases and Materials (with Elizabeth L. Hillman and Dwight H. Sullivan), Lexis Nexis, 2007

Representative Cases:

Miller v. Department of the Navy, 476 F.3d 936 (D.C. Cir. 2007)

Piersall v. Winter, 435 F.3d (D.C. Cir. 2006)

Brooks v. United States, 65 Fed Cl. 135 (2005)

Quinton v. United States, 64 Fed. Cl. 118 (2005)

United States v. Beyer, NMCM 200201128 (N.M.C.C.A. 2005)

Barnes v. United States, 57 Fed. Cl. 204 (2003)

Cummings v. Dep't of the Navy, 279 F. 3d 1051 (D.C. Cir. 2002)

Frizelle v. Slater, 111 F. 3d 172 (D.C. Cir. 1997)

Doninger Metal Products Corp. v. U.S. Postal Service, 41 Fed. Contr. Rep. (BNA) 210 (D.D.C. 1984)

Detweiler v. Pena, 38 F. 3d 591 (D.C. Cir. 1994)

Krzeminski v. United States, 13 Cl. Ct. 430 (1987)

LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae, L.L.P. v. Abraham, 347 F.3d 315 (D.C. Cir. 2003)

Mondy v. Sec'y of the Army, 845 F. 2d 1051 (D.C. Cir. 1988) 

Nolan v. United States, 44 Fed. Cl. 49 (1999)

Pellegrin & Levine v. Antoine, 961 F.2d 277 (D.C. Cir. 1992)

Robinson v. Dalton, 45 F.Supp. 2d 1 (D.D.C. 1998)

Rolader v. United States, 42 Fed. Cl. 782 (1999)

Sherwood v. Washington Post, 871 F.2d 1144 (D.C. Cir. 1989)

Sills v. Bureau of Prisons, 761 F.2d 792 (D.C. Cir. 1985)

Wagner v. United States, 365 F.3d 1358 (Fed. Cir. 2004)

Wilkinson v. Wilkinson, 785 F. Supp. 1037 (D.D.C. 1992)

Wilkinson v. Wilkinson, 986 F.2d 546 (D.C. Cir. 1992)

Honors and Awards:

Alan Barth Service Award, ACLU of the National Capital Area, 1993

Judicial Award for Public Service, United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, 1997

Professional Associations and Memberships:

American Law Institute, Life Member

American Bar Foundation, Fellow

National Institute of Military Justice, President

Fraternities/Sororities:

Phi Epsilon Pi

Birth Information:

March 31, 1945, New York, New York