William C. Banks is a Professor of Law and Public Administration and Director of the Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism at Syracuse University. He is recognized internationally as an expert in constitutional law, national security law, and counterterrorism. Banks co-wrote the leading text in the field. National Security Law was first published in 1990 and is now in its fourth edition. Banks and his co-authors published Counterterrorism Law in 2007 to help define the emerging field of counterterrorism law.  Banks is also the author of numerous other books, book chapters, and articles including Constitutional Law: Structure and Rights in Our Federal System, Fifth Edition, "The Death of FISA,” “Legal Sanctuaries and Predator Strikes in the War on Terror,” and "Targeted Killing and Assassination: The U.S. Legal Framework." Banks joined the faculty of the Syracuse University College of Law in 1978. Since 1998, he also has been a Professor of Public Administration in SU's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. He was named the Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor for Teaching Excellence in 1998, and he became the founding director of the Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism at Syracuse University in 2003.