Professor Victor M. Hansen teaches Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Evidence, and Professional Responsibility. Before joining the New England faculty in 2005, he was a lieutenant colonel in the United States Army JAG Corps. He previously served as a regional defense counsel for the United States Army Trial Defense Service. He worked as a military prosecutor and supervising prosecutor in the Office of the Staff Judge Advocate at Fort Riley (Kansas), and he has been involved in military capital litigation as a prosecutor and as a defense attorney. He also served as an associate professor of law at The Judge Advocate General's School in Charlottesville, Virginia. He is the author or contributing author of numerous manuals and articles on criminal and military law, evidence, and trial advocacy.

Principal Subjects

• Criminal Law
• Criminal Procedure
• Ethics
• Evidence

Selected Publications

• Changes in Modern Military Codes and the Role of the Military Commander: What Should the United States Learn from this Revolution?, 16 Tul. J. Int'l & Comp. L. 419 (2008)
  
• Lessons from Abu Ghraib: Time for the United States to Adopt a Standard of Command Responsibility Towards its Own, 42 Gonz. L. Rev. 335 (2007)
  
• Conservative Bastion or Progressive Problem Solver: The Evolving Face of Military Jurisprudence and International Law, 13 ILSA J. Int'l & Comp. L. 329 (2007)
  
• Commonwealth v. Dwyer and the New Protocol Governing Access to Privileged Information, 51:3 Boston Bar J. 13 (2007)
  
• The Case Against Secret Evidence, 12 Roger Willliams U. L. Rev. 772 (forthcoming 2007) with Lawrence Friedman
  
• The Supreme Court Provides a Framework for Reliability Determinations; Rule of Evidence 702 , Vol. 162 The Military Law Review, December 1999., 162 Military L. Rev. 1 (1999)
  
• Going Native at Guantanamo: When Government Lawyers Lose Their Way Jurist Forum(May 2006), available at http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/forumy/2006/05/going-native-at-guantanamo-when.php
  
• The Army and the Constitution: Time for Congress to Step In (with Professor Lawrence M. Friedman) Jurist Forum (March 2006), available at http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/forumy/2006/03/army-and-constitution-time-for.php.
  
• Congress Should Champion the Advice of Military Lawyers (with Professor Lawrence M. Friedman), Jurist Forum (September 2006), available at http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/forumy/2006/09/congress-should-champion-advice-of.php
  
• No Secret Rules on Torture, The Washington Post (December 15, 2005), available at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/14/AR2005121402193.html
  
• Walking on Unfamiliar Ground: A Primer for Defense: Counsel Representing Clients in an Inspector General Investigation, Army Law. (2005).
  
• The Art of Trial Advocacy-Effective Motions Practice, (2001).
  
• New Developments in Evidence 2000, Army Law. (2001).
  
• New Developments in Evidence 1999, Army Law., (2000).
  

Books

• Military Crimes and Defenses (2007) (with David A. Schlueter, Charles H. Rose, III, and Christopher Behan)
  

Last Updated: 08/14/2007