Robert M. Chesney is an American

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 lawyer and Professor of law at The University of Texas School of Law.
He is also a fellow

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 at the Brookings Institute.
In 2008-2009 he was a visiting scholar at the University of Texas, and a fellow

Fellow

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 at the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law. He was formerly a law professor at Wake Forest University School of Law

Wake Forest University School of Law

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United States President Barack Obama

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 called upon Chesney to serve on a Detainee Policy Task Force in 2009.

Chesney has written, for non-scholarly audiences, on how to respond to the threats of terrorism while complying with the rule of law.