Samuel W. Bettwy

M.A., National Security and Strategic Studies, with highest distinction, Naval War College;

Diplôme, Cours supérieur des officiers de réserve spécialistes d'état major (CSORSEM), France;

LL.M., Georgetown University Law Center (International & Comparative Law);

J.D. California Western School of Law;

B.A., Pomona College

Professor Bettwy, author of several published law review articles on the subjects of international law and immigration law, has been teaching at Thomas Jefferson since 1995.

From 1987 to 1999, he was an Assistant Editor of International Legal Materials, a publication of the American Society of International Law. He has specialized in immigration law since 1987 when he began as a prosecutor in immigration court for the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service in San Francisco. From there, he was promoted to Associate General Counsel in Washington, DC, in charge of attorney training, and then he transferred to the Civil Division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in San Diego, where he continues to specialize in immigration law matters before the U.S. District Court and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. In 2007 and 2008, Professor Bettwy was the only government attorney selected in the category of Immigration in Super Lawyer’s San Diego Edition.

Professor Bettwy also served as an active reservist in the Judge Advocate General’s Corps from 1987 to 2014, retiring as a Lieutenant Colonel.

Courses: Civil Procedure, Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure in Film, Torts

Publications:

TEXTBOOK:
COMPARING CRIMINAL PROCEDURES THROUGH FILM (Vandeplas Pub. Oct. 2019) (eBook)
COMPARATIVE CRIMINAL PROCEDURE THROUGH FILM (Vandeplas Pub. June 2015) (546 pp.)
ARTICLES
Evolving Transnational Cinematic Perspectives of Terrorism, 9 PERSPECTIVES ON TERRORISM 42-60 (Apr. 2015)
The Potential of Transnational Cinema to Counter Islamic Extremism, 4 CTX JOURNAL 78-91 (Nov. 2014)
(Monterey, CA: Naval Postgraduate School)
A Survey of Comparative Criminal Procedure through Foreign Films, OPINIO JURIS IN COMP. (Special Issue 2014)
A Proposed Legislative Scheme to Solve the Mexican Immigration Problem, 2 SAN DIEGO INT’L L.J. 93 (2001)
Western Philosophies of Law: Civil Law, THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEMS (UNESCO 2001)
Assisting Soldiers in Immigration Matters, THE ARMY LAWYER 3 (Apr. 1992)
Mexico's Development: Foreign Trade Zones and Direct Foreign Investment, 22 COMP. JUR. REV. 49 (1985)
United States Aviation Law and the Proposed Air Travel Compensation Act, 12 J. LEGISL. 25 (Notre Dame 1985)
United States-Vatican Recognition: Background and Issues, 28 CATHOLIC LAWYER 225 (St. John's 1984)
United States Recognition Policy: The State of Vatican City, 11 CALIF. W. INT'L L.J. 1 (1981) (co-author)
Mexican Transmigration: A Case for the Application of International Law, 10 CALIF. W. INT'L L.J. 92 (1980)
REPORTS & BOOK REVIEWS
89 PROC. ANN. MTG. AM. SOC'Y INT'L L. 1 (1995) (electronic access to international law sources)