Robert "Jaimie" J. Orr III, JD, LL.M

Robert "Jaimie" J. Orr III, JD, LL.M

Dean of Faculty and Academic Affairs

Prof. Orr joined academia following his retirement in 2008 after 24 ½ years of service as a U.S. Navy Judge Advocate specializing in International and Operational Law. In his last military assignment he served as the Deputy Legal Advisor for NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander, Transformation, where he was responsible for developing and coordinating doctrine and training for legal advisors across the NATO Alliance and working in the field of post-conflict Rule of Law development. A graduate of Heidelberg College in Tiffin, Ohio (cum laude, 1981) with a degree in Political Science and History, Professor Orr entered the Navy’s Judge Advocate General’s Corps Student Program while enrolled at The Ohio State University College of Law, from where he received his Juris Doctor in 1984. In addition to his J.D. from the Ohio State University, he holds a Master of Arts in Military History from Norwich University, a Masters of Law in National Security Law from the University of Virginia College of Law, and is a graduate of the College of Command and Staff, U.S. Naval War College (with distinction). He is the co-author of the text “Homeland and National Security Law and Policy: Cases and Materials,” (Carolina Press, 2017), several articles for the SAGE Encyclopedia of Surveillance, Security, and Privacy, and has presented papers on various topics of American and naval history from the late 19th and early 20th century. Prof. Orr is a member of the American Bar Association and the American Society of International Law. He serves as a member and Board Secretary of the Board of Trustees of Heidelberg University in Tiffin, Ohio.

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Books

Homeland and National Security Law and Policy: Case and Materials (with Matt Pinsker)

Carolina Academic Press, 1 September 2017

Ohio's Criminal Justice System (with Josua B. Hill, Nancy E. Marion, Kevin M. Cashen, and Kendra J. Kec)

Carolina Academic Press, Contributing Author, 2015

Rule of Law Handbook: A Practitioner’s Guide for Judge Advocates

US Army Center for Law and Military Operations, Contributing Author, July 2007

Information Operations: Warfare and the Hard Reality of Soft Power (with Leigh Armstead)

Potomac Books, Contributing Author, May 2004

Book Chapters

The SAGE Encyclopedia of Surveillance

Chapter: Cybersecurity Legislation – Introduction

Chapter: Information Warfare – Introduction

Chapter: International Diplomacy – Introduction

Chapter: Law – Introduction

Chapter: Law and Digital Technology – Introduction

Chapter: North Atlantic Treaty Organization – Introduction

Chapter: U.S. Constitution – Introduction

Sage Publications, 2018

Book Review

Review – Counterinsurgency Law: New Directions in Asymmetric Warfare

Author: William A. Banks

International Review of the Red Cross, Volume 95, Number 891/892, Autumn/Winter 2013

Review – Can Might make Rights? Building the Rule of Law After Military Interventions

Authors: Jane Stromseth, David Wippman, and Rosa Brooks

American Society of International Law and the International Judicial Academy, Volume II, Issue 1, March 2007

Manuals

NATO Legal Handbook

Supreme Allied Command Transformation (SACT), Editor and Contributing Author, 2006

Multi-National Rules of Engagement Training Manual

International Institute for Humanitarian Law, Contributing Author, 2006

Conference Papers, Presentations, and Keynote Address

Theodore Roosevelt and the Military

Conference Paper and Presentation

Society of Presidential Descendants Annual Symposium, Long Island University, June 2022

Theodore Roosevelt’s Strategic Leadership and Grand Strategy

Conference Paper and Presentation

Society for Military History Annual Meeting, Fort Worth TX, May 2022

Alfred Thayer Mahan and Sir Julian S. Corbett: Intellectual Synergy, not Competition, in a Period of Revolutionary Change

Conference Paper and Presentation

Society for Military History Annual Meeting, Norfolk VA, May 2021

Theodore Roosevelt and Elihu Root; Partners in Reform

Keynote Address

3^rd Annual Cornerstone Commemoration, Conference Paper and Presentation, National War College, February 2020

Using Theodore Roosevelt to teach Grand Strategy at the National War College

Conference Presentation

Long Island University, October 2019