Michel Paradis is a leading human rights lawyer and national security law scholar. He is a partner at Steptoe LLP, where the focus of his practice is national security litigation, trade, and artificial intelligence. Previously, he served in the U.S. Department of Defense, where he was awarded the Secretary of Defense's Global War on Terrorism Medal. He is the author of several books, most recently, the critically-acclaimed biography of Dwight Eisenower, The Light of Battle. He has appeared on or written for the PBS NewsHour, CBS, MSNBC, CNBC, C-SPAN, Netflix, NPR, The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Lawfare, Just Security, Articles of War, among other publications. He is a contributing editor at Lawfare and a Board Member on the National Institute for Military Justice. He was awarded his law degree from Fordham University and his doctorate in Computational Linguistics from Oxford University, where he was a Campion Scholar, for foundational research on large language models.