MAJ Jason Wright Assistant Professor jason.wright@westpoint.edu Biography Jason Wright is an assistant professor of law with the Department of Law as an Army Reserve officer, a partner at Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP, and an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown Law. On active duty from 2005 to 2014, MAJ Wright served as a military public defender in Europe and Guantánamo Bay, an aide-de-camp to a division commander in Iraq, and a military legal planner in Europe and Iraq where he advised on international law, national security law, the laws of war, intelligence law, and targeting operations. Prior to military service, Mr. Wright clerked for the Secretary of the Army at the Office of the General Counsel and at the “Rocket Docket,” the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Alexandria Division. MAJ Wright’s awards include the Bronze Star Medal as the first JAG to serve as an aide-de-camp to a division commander in combat and the U.S. Secretary of Defense’s Meritorious Service Medal for MAJ Wright’s service as detailed military defense counsel to Khalid Sheikh Mohammad (KSM), the alleged mastermind of 9/11 in U.S. v. Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, et al., before the U.S. Military Commission in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. In private practice as a partner at Curtis, Professor Wright handles high profile and discrete matters across several practice areas and industries. He provides bespoke services in the areas of civil, commercial, and criminal litigation in the U.S. and abroad, private client and outside general counsel services, and anti-corruption, sanctions, national security, and international law matters. Jason Wright co-chairs the firm’s global national security law practice group and he has successfully represented clients in the United States and abroad in the energy, technology, life sciences, defense and military industries. As a professor of law since 2014, Professor Wright co-directed a litigation clinic in international tribunals as a professor of practice at Washington and Lee University School of Law for three years and has also served as a certified international humanitarian law instructor for the American Red Cross. Mr. Wright currently teaches war crimes, international criminal procedure, and terrorism law as an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center. Publications & Presentations Wright, Jason D., contrib. auth., Obama’s Guantanamo, Stories from an Enduring Prison, New York Univ. Press, 2nd ed. (2016) New York Times, Op-Doc, The Case Against Torture, by Brian Knappenberger (2014) Wright, Jason D., America Tortured – And We Need to Shed Some Light, Politico, (Nov. 23, 2014) Wright, Jason D., There’s Nothing Honorable About Torture, Nat’l Religious Campaign Against Torture, (Oct. 22, 2013) Wright, Jason D., ‘Excessive’ Ambiguity: Analysing and Refining the Proportionality Standard, Int’l Rev., Int’l Comm. of the Red Cross, V. 94, N. 886 (2012) Media Interviews and Profiles Robert C. O’Brien, While America Slept, Restoring American Leadership to a World in Crisis, Section 5, Observer Dispatches from Guantanamo, (Encounter Books 2016) NPR’s All Things Considered, Guantanamo Defense Attorney Resigns, (Aug. 31, 2014) Slate, Indefensble: Why KSM’s Lawyer is leaving the Defense Team-and the Army, (Aug. 26, 2014) Profil Magazine (Austria), The Good American: The Defender of al-Qaeda Mastermind (Jul. 29, 2014) Christian Amanpour’s CNN International, How One Detainee Got Trapped in Legal Limbo, (May 8, 2013) Toronto Star Dispatches, Justice on Trial: Inside Guantanamo’s 9/11 Prosecution, Ch. 3, The Defender, Jason Wright, (Oct. 24, 2013) The Independent, Special Feature: Interview with KSM’s Lawyer, (August 15, 2012) Presentations CLE Instructor, Critical and Emerging Technologies under the Export Control Reform Act, Curtis, New York, May 2021 Expert Panelist, Legal Immunity for Healthcare Providers and Covid-19, Singapore, May 2021 CLE Instructor, Human Trafficking under International Law, Kazakhstan National University, December 2020 CLE Instructor, Administrative Law and Due Process, Curtis, New York, September 2020 Expert Panelist, Judicial and Extrajudicial Killings, U.N. Political Forum, New York, July 2018 CLE Instructor, International Humanitarian Law (CLE 7 hrs), American Red Cross, New York, May 2018 Expert Panelists, Habeas and Military Commissions, American Red Cross, New York, October 2017 Moderator, Guantanamo, Views from the Legal Front, New York City Bar, New York, June 2017 CLE Instructor, Due Process in Administrative Hearings (CLE 1 hr), Department of Defense, New Jersey, August 2015 Expert Panelist, Global Streaming Event – Int’l Human Rights Day, Amnesty Int’l France, Paris, December 2014 Expert Panelist, Giddeon’s Army, Center for National Security, New York, October 2014, Keynote Speaker, Right to a Fair Trial, Yale Law School, Connecticut, September 2014 Expert Panelist, Expert Hearing on Military Commissions, Inter-Am. Comm’n, Washington, D.C., October 2013 Keynote Speaker, Legal Conundrums with the War on Terror, Occidental College, California, October 2013 Expert Panelist, Use Your Power, Amnesty Int’l USA, Washington, D.C., March 2013 Keynote Speaker, What is Justice Post 9-11?, Amnesty Int’l USA, Washington, D.C., March 2012 Keynote Speaker, Guantanamo, Reprieve, London, September 2012 Keynote Speak, The Response, Amnesty Int’l USA, Washington, D.C., March 2012 Expert Panelist, Proportionality in Armed Conflicts, Int’l Law Conference, Israel, November 2010