Gary D. Solis

Who is Gary D. Solis?

Gary D. 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. He is an expert on the laws of war.

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.

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 Son Thang: An American War Crime and The Law of Armed Conflict: International Humanitarian Law in War.