Gary D. Solis
Gary Dean Solis is a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps and an Adjunct Professor of Law who teaches the laws of war at the Georgetown University Law Center and the George Washington University Law School.
He attended San Diego State University, the University of California, Davis School of Law, George Washington University Law School, and the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Before his academic career, Solis served two tours of duty during the Vietnam War in the United States Marine Corps. He is a former military judge advocate and Marine prosecutor, who retired as a lieutenant colonel.
He previously taught on the LSE's law faculty for three years, and served on the faculty of the Department of Law at the United States Military Academy. For six years he headed West Point's law of war program, in 2007 he was a Library of Congress scholar in residence, and he is on the teaching faculty of the International Institute of Humanitarian Law, in San Remo, Italy.
Solis authored Marines and Military Law in Vietnam, as well as ones about war-crimes including the Son Thang massacre in Son Thang: An American War Crime and .
