Associate Professor of Law
rknowles@ubalt.edu
410.837.4523
John and Frances Angelos Law Center
AL 1011
Administrative Assistant:
Laurie Schnitzer
410.837.4689 AL 1006
Education
J.D., Northwestern University School of Law
B.A., St. Olaf College
Areas of Expertise
National Security Law
Civil Procedure
Administrative Law
International Law
Professor Knowles’ scholarship explores the ways that the national security state acts as a regulator, and the legal and policy implications of this reality. His articles have been published in the Washington & Lee Law Review, the Washington University Law Review, and the Iowa Law Review, among others.
Knowles graduated magna cum laude from Northwestern University School of Law, where he served as the Coordinating Articles Editor of the Northwestern University Law Review and received the William Jennings Bryan and Adlai Stevenson Awards, respectively, for final round winner and best brief in the Julius Miner Moot Court Competition. Following law school, he clerked for Judge M. Margaret McKeown of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He joined the UBalt School of Law faculty in 2018.
In practice, he represented clients in the areas of white-collar criminal defense, asylum, complex commercial litigation, and employment arbitration at Covington & Burling in New York and Latham & Watkins in Chicago. He also represented 16 Yemeni detainees at Guantanamo Bay in federal habeas litigation.
Selected Publications
Articles and Essays
Zealous Administration: The Deportation Bureaucracy, 72 Rutgers U.L. Rev._ (forthcoming 2020) (with Geoffrey Heeren)
Warfare As Regulation, 74 Wash. & Lee L. Rev.1953 (2017)
National Security Rulemaking, 41 Fla. St. U. L. Rev. 883 (2014)
The Intertwined Fates of Affirmative Action and the Military, 45 Loy. U. Chi. L.J. 1027 (2014)
A Realist Defense of the Alien Tort Statute, 88 Wash. U. L. Rev. 1117 (2011)
Bagram, Boumediene, and Limited Government, 59 DePaul L. Rev. 801 (2010) (with Marc D. Falkoff)
American Hegemony and the Foreign Affairs Constitution, 41 Ariz. St. L.J. 87 (2009)
Toward a Limited-Government Theory of Extraterritorial Detention, 62 N.Y.U. Ann. Surv. Am. L. 637 (2007) (with Marc D. Falkoff)
The Balance of Forces and the Empire of Liberty: States’ Rights and the Louisiana Purchase, 88 Iowa L. Rev. 343 (2003)
Shorter Works
Administrating NATO, Yale L.J. Forum (forthcoming 2020) (invited contribution)
Affirmative Action in the Military: Unique Successes, New Challenges, in 3 Controversies in Affirmative Action (James Beckman ed., Praeger 2014)
Israeli Lessons for Improving Guantanamo Bay , The New Republic (July 28, 2013)
The U.S. Military Needs Affirmative Action Now More Than Ever, The New Republic (June 24, 2013)
Detainee Policy and the Rule of Law: A Response, 48 Harv. Int'l L.J. Online 69 (2007)
Articles on Social Science Research Network
Talks and Presentations
Speaker, American Constitution Society Annual Constitutional Law Scholars Forum, February 2020: Delegating National Security
Speaker, Maryland Junior Faculty Workshop, February 2020: Delegating National Security
Speaker, Loyola-Chicago Constitutional Law Colloquium, November 2019: Delegating National Security
Speaker, Emerging Immigration Scholars Conference, June 2019: Zealous Administration
Speaker, Loyola-Chicago Constitutional Law Colloquium, November 2017: Judicial Brickerism
Speaker, Central States Law Schools Association 2017 Scholarship Conference, October 2017: Warfare As Regulation
Speaker, Junior International Law Scholars Annual Meeting, January 2016: Warfare As Regulation
Speaker, Duke Law School, Conference on the Present and Future of Civil Rights Movements, November 2015: Timing Race Remedies