Philip O'Neill has decades of experience in international law and public policy issues as an international lawyer, arbitrator, law professor, and political advisor. His professorial experience includes teaching National Security law, initially at Boston College Law School and since 2001 at Boston University Law school, where he also previously taught an American Foreign Policy-related LLM course. In recent years he served both as Nomura Lecturer in Law at Harvard Law School in International Arbitration, and also as a visiting international law professor at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. The author has long been active in Democratic politics, advising Senators and Presidential aspirants alike on foreign and defense policy issues. In the 2004 election campaign, for example, he served as a Senior Policy Advisor and as Chairman of a Kerry campaign Foreign Policy Task Force. In addition to his private legal practice as a Partner in the Boston office of Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP, Mr. O'Neill is currently a Senior Fellow at the Truman Project, and is a member of the National Security Network. He is also formerly the Vice Chair of the American Bar Association's National Security Law Committee, and an adjunct research fellow at the Center for Science and International Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government.