Cardozo School of Law. Professor Padmanabhan teaches the law of war and human rights law, and has published on topics in international criminal law and international humanitarian law. From 2003 to 2008, he was an attorney-adviser in the office of the legal adviser at the U.S. Department of State. While there he served as the department's chief counsel for law of warndash;related litigation, including collaborating with the U.S. Department of Justice on the Boumediene, Omar, and Hamdan cases in the U.S. Supreme Court. He also was the department liaison to the office of military commissions in the U.S. Department of Defense. Padmanabhan was a law clerk to the Honorable James L. Dennis of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. He received his BSBA summa cum laude from Georgetown University and JD magna cum laude from New York University School of Law.