Ryan M. Christian is a Senior Lecturing Fellow who teaches Legal Research, Analysis, and Writing. Christian previously served as a Visiting Fellow and Honorary Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh, taught Legal Rhetoric at American University Washington College of Law, served as a Fellow in the Legal Research and Writing Program at Georgetown University Law Center, and taught as an adjunct faculty member or mock trial judge at several schools.
Christian’s practice experience spans constitutional and commercial litigation, international investigations, and cybersecurity. He has briefed or argued appeals in five U.S. Circuit Courts and served as counsel of record in the U.S. Supreme Court. Christian was involved in constitutional litigation challenging wine distribution laws under the Commerce Clause, defending allegations of LIBOR manipulation, reverse payment patent settlement litigation, and a challenge to the FCC's broadcast indecency standard.
Christian served for eight years in the Department of Justice as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Transnational Organized Crime and Cybercrime Sections, and as a Trial Attorney in the International Money Laundering Unit. He clerked for the Honorable Emilio M. Garza of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and the Honorable Henry H. Kennedy, Jr. of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. During his district court clerkship, he assisted with the adjudication of petitions for writs of habeas corpus filed by Guantanamo Bay detainees.
Christian earned his J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center and graduate certificate from Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. He earned his M.S. from the School of Information Systems and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University and his B.S. from the Schools of Business, Humanities, and Social Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University.
