Brenner Fissell is Professor of Law at Villanova. He is the Distinguished Senior Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law. Fissell previously worked as appellate defense counsel in the U.S. Department of Defense at the Guantanamo Bay Military Commissions and clerked for Chief Judge Scott Stucky of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces—the nation's highest military court.