University of Baltimore School of Law
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Education
B.A., St. Olaf College
J.D., Northwestern University School of Law
Areas of Expertise
National Security Law
Civil Procedure
Administrative Law
International Law
Biography
Professor Knowles’ scholarship explores the ways that the national security state acts as a regulator, and the legal and policy implications of this reality. His articles have been published in the Washington & Lee Law Review, the Washington University Law Review, and the Iowa Law Review, among others.
Knowles graduated magna cum laude from Northwestern University School of Law, where he served as the Coordinating Articles Editor of the Northwestern University Law Review and received the William Jennings Bryan and Adlai Stevenson Awards, respectively, for final round winner and best brief in the Julius Miner Moot Court Competition. Following law school, he clerked for Judge M. Margaret McKeown of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He joined the UBalt School of Law faculty in 2018.
In practice, he represented clients in the areas of white-collar criminal defense, asylum, complex commercial litigation, and employment arbitration at Covington & Burling in New York and Latham & Watkins in Chicago. He also represented 16 Yemeni detainees at Guantanamo Bay in federal habeas litigation.