Jeffrey Addicott

Jeffrey Addicott is an American lawyer and university professor. He is the director of the Center of Terrorism Law at St. Mary's University School of Law in San Antonio, Texas.^[1]

Education and Career

Addicott went to college at the University of Maryland and graudated in 1976. He received his Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree in 1979 from the University of Alabama School of Law. He received two Master of Law (LL.M.) degrees in 1987 and 1994 from The Judge Advocate General's Legal Center and School and the University of Virginia School of Law respectively.^[2]

Addicott worked for twenty years in the Judge Advocate General's Corps. He later became a law professor in St. Mary's University School of Law in San Antonio, Texas. After the September 11, 2001 attacks, he shifted his focus on terrorism law, and in 2003 he was appointed as the director of St. Mary's University's Center for Terrorism Law. Since then Addicott has given more than 600 speeches and given interviews to leading news agencies more than 4,000 times. He also worked with the executive branch and the FBI during the presidency of George W. Bush.^[3]

Notable public statements

During a speech at a rally to defend a statue honoring Confederate soldiers in Travis Park, Addicott said he'd "love to beat the living daylights" out of racists. He said that whether the statue should be removed had nothing to do with racism. He was criticized for the comments by St. Mary's president Thomas Mengler, as well as by alumni.^[4] Addicott later told a columnist for a local newspaper that he had made a mistake.^[5]

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