Jody Prescott works as a federal attorney in the areas of commercial litigation and environmental law. He has been teaching at UVM since 2012. He returned to Vermont after serving 25 years as an Army Judge Advocate. While in the Army, he served as an appellate attorney; senior defense counsel in Stuttgart, Germany; Chief of International & Operational Claims in Mannheim, Germany; Claims Chief in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, with the NATO Implementation Force; deputy general counsel and then general counsel for U.S. Army Alaska in Anchorage; staff attorney and legal observer/trainer at Allied Command Transformation in Norfolk, Virginia, and the Joint Warfare Centre in Stavanger, Norway. His final operational assignment was as the Chief Legal Advisor, Kabul, Afghanistan, with the NATO International Security Assistance Force, 2008-2009. He was an assistant professor at the Army Command & General Staff College, 2000-2003, and at West Point teaching constitutional law, 2009-2011.
Lecturer
Publications
Books/booklets
- Armed Conflict, Women and Climate Change (Routledge, 2018)
Ordinary Soldiers: A Case Study in Ethics, Law and Leadership, with D. Frey, W. Beorn, J. Ciardelli, and G. Skidmore (U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2014)
Chapters
- “Claims,” Chap. 22; “Afghanistan,” Chap. 44 (with J. Male), in The Handbook of the Law of Visiting Forces, D. Fleck, ed. (Oxford, 2018)
Articles
- “Lawfare: Softwiring Resilience into the Network,” The Three Swords (2017)
- “Gender, Law and Policy: Japan’s National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security,” with E. Iwata and R. Pincus, Asian-Pacific Law & Policy Journal (2015)
- “Building the Ethical Cyber Commander,” Rutgers Computer & Technology Law Journal (2014)
- “Climate Change, Gender and Rethinking Military Operations,” Vermont Environmental Law Journal (2014)
Videos
- Presentation, “Food Security and Gender,” Naval War College Conference (2016) (starting at 37:20)
- Interview, “Ordinary Soldiers: A Case Study in Ethics, Law and Leadership,” U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum (2016)
- Testimony, Vermont Senate Hearing on Climate Change (2015)
Associations and Affiliations
- Miller Center for Holocaust Studies (2015)
- Senior Fellow, West Point Center for the Rule of Law (2011)
- Admitted to Practice, U.S. Supreme Court (1990)
- Admitted to Practice, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces (1987)
- Admitted to Practice, Maine Supreme Court (1986)
Areas of Expertise and/or Research
Jody’s research and writing focuses on four major evolving international security topics: the operationalization of gender, climate change and armed conflict, the education and development of cyber leaders, and military ethics from a law of armed conflict perspective.
Education
- LLM, Military Law, the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General’s School
- LLM, International & Comparative Law, Georgetown University Law Center
- JD, University of Maine School of Law
- BA,, Zoology, University of Vermont
Contact
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Courses Taught
ENVS Courses:
ENVS 293 Environmental Law
ENVS 295 Energy Law and Climate Change
Other Courses:
CIS 002, Cybersecurity Law & Policy