Professor Schinasi is Director of Clinical Placements and teaches Evidence and National Security Law. He received a bachelors degree in economics in 1968, and a JD degree in 1971 from the University of Toledo. Following graduation he worked as a trial attorney for the Office of Economic Opportunity before beginning a 23 year career in the United States Army Judge Advocate General's Corps. His final military assignment was as Dean of Academics and Vice Dean of the Army's Graduate Law School, located at the University of Virginia.
Professor Schinasi’s professional experiences include serving as a prosecutor, criminal defense attorney, and government appellate attorney. During the 1980's, he was legal advisor to the Army’s Chief of Intelligence and Special Operation located in the Pentagon, and later with the Department of Justice in prosecuting related white-collar crime and internal fraud cases.
Professor Schinasi is coauthor of several books on evidence and litigation skills. He is a frequent speaker on these subjects at national, military, and state CLE programs. In September 2000, then Secretary of Defense William Cohen appointed Professor Schinasi to a national advisory panel. He has also served on the Steering Committee of the Florida Bar’s evidence project. In the Spring of 2001, the American Bar Association asked Professor Schinasi to assist the former Soviet Republic of Moldova in developing that country’s own clinical legal education projects.
In the Fall of 2003, Professor Schinasi was selected as a Senior Fulbright Scholar and joined the Law Faculty of Nis University, located in Serbia, where he taught clinical legal education and skills training courses. Professor Schinasi has been quoted in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and other national publications. He has also appeared on MSNBC, NPR, and local television broadcasts concerning his expertise in National Security and Military Law. |
