# Steve Vladeck

Stephen Vladeck is the Charles Alan Wright Chair in Federal Courts at the University of Texas School of Law, where he specializes in national security law, especially with relation to the prosecution of war crimes. Vladeck has commented on the legality of the United States' use of extrajudicial detention and torture, and is a regular contributor to CNN. == Life and career == Vladeck is the son of Fredda Wellin Vladeck and Bruce C. Vladeck, who was the administrator of the Health Care Financing Administration from 1993 to 1997. He is the grandson of Judith Vladeck, a labor lawyer who won major sex and age discrimination cases.Vladeck was a two-sport athlete at Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, Maryland, and he was active in the athletics department at Amherst College, where he graduated summa cum laude with a double major in mathematics and history.