Robert F. Turner Explained

Robert F. Turner
Birth Date:14 February 1944
Nationality:American
Fields:International law
National Security Law
Workplaces:U.S. Department of Defense
U.S. Naval War College
University of Virginia
Alma Mater:University of Virginia
Website:Robert F. Turner, Professor

Robert F. Turner (born February 14, 1944) was a professor of international law and national security law at the University of Virginia and the co-founder of its Center for National Security Law.

Education

Turner earned his BA in Government with honors from Indiana University in 1968. While attending the university, he became chairman of the Intercollegiate Society of Individualists Conservative League.[1] Later, he became the National Research Director for Student Committee for Victory in Vietnam.[2] [3] He undertook graduate work in history and political science at Stanford University in 1972 and 1973 while employed by the Hoover Institution. He enrolled in Government and Foreign Affairs coursework in 1979-1981 while attending law school at the University of Virginia, where he earned his J.D degree. He earned a Doctor of Juridical Science (SJD) degree from UVA in 1996.[4]

Career

Turner was a correspondent in Vietnam for the Indianapolis News in 1968. He was commissioned a U.S. Army captain through the ROTC program and assigned to the intelligence services. He served in Vietnam from 1968 through 1971, primarily assigned to MACV on detail to the US Embassy as Assistant Special Projects Officer, North Vietnam/Viet Cong Affairs Division. His duties included interviewing senior communist defectors and prisoners and briefing the media. In his capacity as Special Projects Officer, he also authored a top secret monograph on Viet Cong assassination policy.

In 1971, he became a research assistant at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, where "he contributed ten chapters on communist movements in Southeast Asia to the Yearbook on International Communist Affairs (1972)."[5] In 1972, he became a Public Affairs Fellow. He spent his first year researching at Stanford and completing his book on Vietnamese Communism and his second year on Capitol Hill. During that period, he also served as Associate Editor (Asia and Pacific) for the Yearbook on International Communist Affairs (1973-1974).[6]

When his fellowship was complete, Turner became Special Assistant and Legislative Assistant to U.S. Senator Robert P. Griffin of Michigan for five years.[7] He served as Griffin's national security advisor and was responsible for Foreign Affairs, Armed Services and Intelligence issues. He helped draft the language that created the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.

In April 1981, Turner co-founded the Center for National Security Law with John Norton Moore.[8] He also took a leave of absence to become the Special Assistant to the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy as well as Counsel to the President's Intelligence Oversight Board, where he served for two years. Then he served as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Legislative and Governmental Affairs for the United States Department of State until 1985. Turner served from 1986 to 1987 as the first President and CEO of the United States Institute of Peace.[9]

Two years later, he began the first of three terms as the chair of the American Bar Association Standing Committee on Law and National Security.[10] [11] He held the post until 1992. He also served as editor of the ABA National Security Law Report.[12] In 1991, Turner co-edited and published National Security Law and Policy. At the time of its creation, the field of national security law did not exist as a separate discipline in the legal profession.

In 1994, he received a one-year appointment to the U.S. Naval War College and became the Charles H. Stockton Professor of International Law.[13] That same year, he was described in a Michigan Law Review article as one of the "two most distinguished and careful commentators" in the area of the law and the Vietnam War.[14]

In 2000, Turner chaired a study investigating the paternity of Sally Hemings' children.[15] The project concluded that the most likely father was Thomas Jefferson's younger brother, Randolph Jefferson.[16] [17] In his 2012 book Master of the Mountain, Henry Wiencek described Turner as "[Thomas] Jefferson's chief scholarly defender".[18]

Honors and recognition

Books

External links

Notes and References

  1. Lantzer. Jason S.. The Other Side of Campus: Indiana University's Student Right and the Rise of National Conservatism. Indiana Magazine of History. 1 December 2017. 1 June 2005.
  2. News: Student Committee Urges Viet Victory By Bombing All Vital Military Targets. 30 November 2017. stanforddailyarchive.com. Stanford Daily. 43. 20 April 1967. 151.
  3. Web site: Liberated by the Viet Cong. The Library of Congress. National Student Committee For Victory In Vietnam. 1 December 2017. en.
  4. Web site: Robert F. Turner bio. Policy Experts. 30 November 2017.
  5. Book: Staar. Richard Felix. Drachkovitch. Milorad M.. Gann. Lewis H.. Yearbook on International Communist Affairs. 1972. Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford University.. 30 November 2017. en.
  6. Book: Staar. F. Richard. Yearbook on International Communist Affairs, 1974. 1974. Hoover Institution Press. 9780817964016. 30 November 2017. en.
  7. Web site: Robert F. Turner. University of Virginia School of Law. University of Virginia. 29 November 2017. en. 22 July 2016.
  8. Web site: Prof. Robert F. Turner. The Federalist Society. 30 November 2017.
  9. Web site: Current and Past Leadership. United States Institute of Peace. 29 November 2017. en.
  10. Web site: Links of Interest Standing Committee. www.americanbar.org. 29 November 2017.
  11. News: Gellman. Barton. Washingtonpost.com: Fog of War - Post Archive. 29 November 2017. The Washington Post. 25 January 1991.
  12. Turner. Robert F.. Ten Questions: Responses of Robert F. Turner. William Mitchell Law Review. 2007. 33. 5. 1605. 29 November 2017.
  13. Web site: U.S. Naval War College Stockton Professors. usnwc2.usnwc.edu. U.S. Naval War College. 1 December 2017.
  14. Bobbitt. Phillip. War Powers: An Essay on John Hart Ely's War and Responsibility: Constitutional Lessons of Vietnam and Its Aftermath. Michigan Law Review. 1994. 92. 6. 1372. 10.2307/1289586. 1289586.
  15. Web site: The Scholars Commission. Thomas Jefferson Heritage Society. 29 November 2017.
  16. Web site: Achorn. Edward. Reasonable Doubt. Weekly Standard. 29 November 2017. 29 October 2012.
  17. Web site: Scholars Overturn Case for Thomas Jefferson's Relationship with Slave Sally Hemings Capitalism Magazine. capitalismmagazine.com. 2 June 2001 . 29 November 2017.
  18. Book: Wiencek, Henry. Master of the Mountain: Thomas Jefferson and His Slaves. 2012. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. New York City, NY. 9781466827783. 189. 1st. registration. master of the mountain.. 3 December 2017. en.
  19. Web site: Board of Directors :: Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy. www.thomasjeffersoninst.org. 30 November 2017.

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