Robert Strassfeld is professor, associate director of the Frederick K. Cox International Law Center, and director of the Institute for Global Security Law and Policy at Case Western Reserve University School of Law. Prof. Strassfeld has written extensively on the legal history of the Vietnam War and on questions of loyalty and dissent during wartime, the rights of military dissenters, congressional and executive war powers, military justice, and extraordinary rendition and torture. Those articles have appeared in the North Carolina and Wisconsin Law Reviews, the Duke Law Journal and the Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law.

He is currently writing an article entitled "How to Stop a War." He earned his B.A. from Wesleyan University, an M.A. in History from the University of Rochester, and his J.D. from the University of Virginia. Prior to teaching law, he clerked for Judge Harrison L. Winter of the U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit and then practiced in Washington, D.C. with the firm of Shea & Gardner. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Cleveland Chapter of the ACLU.