Greg McNeal

Greg McNeal is a professor at Pepperdine University. His research focuses on the institutions and challenges associated with global security, with a particular substantive focus on criminal law and procedure, national security law and international criminal law.

Professor McNeal is the Editor in Chief of The National Security Report, a publication of The American Bar Association’s Standing Committee on Law and National Security. His non-academic writing has appeared in publications such as The New York Times, The Washington Times, and The Baltimore Sun. He has appeared on NPR, BBC, C-SPAN and other national media outlets as an expert commentator on counterterrorism and international law and has been quoted by The New York Times and The Associated Press.

Previously, he co-directed a transnational counterterrorism program for the U.S. Department of Justice. He also served as an advisor to the Chief Prosecutor of the Department of Defense Office of Military Commissions on matters related to the prosecution of suspected terrorists held in the detention facility in Guantanamo Bay Cuba. He has testified before Congress, advised and consulted with the staff of Congressional committees, members of both houses of Congress, Fortune 500 Companies, The Iraqi High Tribunal, and members of the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs on counterterrorism, national security and international criminal law matters.