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Professor Eric R. Carpenter has been recently quoted in an AP News article entitled: “Army schedules hearing to consider Bowe Bergdhal plea”.

In the article professor Carpenter offers key insights as a former army lawyer regarding Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdhal as he appears in court next week. Sgt. Bergdhal is expected to enter a guilty plea to charges in which he endangered comrades by walking off his remote post in Afghanistan in 2009.

Please find more information regarding the AP article here.


Prof. Carpenter joined FIU Law in 2013. His research interests are in military justice, sexual violence against women, and capital litigation. To read Prof. Carpenter’s works, visit his Selected Works gallery.