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Diane Mazur, J.D.

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Legal Co-Director
Diane H. Mazur is a Professor of Law at the University of Florida College of Law, a former Bigelow Fellow at the University of Chicago Law School, and a graduate of the University of Texas School of Law. She teaches courses in evidence, constitutional law, professional responsibility, and civil-military relations, and her research focuses on the constitutional, legal, and cultural relationship of the military to civilian society. She is also an Advisor to the National Institute of Military Justice and a Senior Editor for the Journal of National Security Law and Policy. Professor Mazur is a former aircraft and munitions maintenance officer in the United States Air Force, and before entering law teaching she practiced law with the Modrall Law Firm in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Professor Mazur is the author of a forthcoming book from Oxford University Press, A More Perfect Military: How the Constitution Can Make Our Military Stronger (August 2010).

Her recent publications related to law and the military include "Military Law," a chapter in Law and Popular Culture (2007); "Military Values in Law," 14 Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy 977 (2007); "A Blueprint for Law School Engagement with the Military," 1 Journal of National Security Law & Policy 473 (2005); "The Bullying of America: A Cautionary Tale about Military Voting and Civil-Military Relations," 4 Election Law Journal 105 (2005); "Is 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Unconstitutional After Lawrence? What It Will Take to Overturn the Policy," 15 University of Florida Journal of Law & Public Policy 423 (2004); "Why Progressives Lost the War When They Lost the Draft," 32 Hofstra Law Review 553 (2003); and "Rehnquist's Vietnam: Constitutional Separatism and the Stealth Advance of Martial Law," 77 Indiana Law Journal 701 (2002).