Tim Bakken

Tim Bakken is the first person promoted to Professor of Law at the U.S. Military Academy, West Point (1802). He created the Department of Law at the National Military Academy of Afghanistan. A legally-recognized whistleblower, he is one of the few federal employees to win a retaliation case against the U.S. Army.

A former homicide prosecutor in New York City (Brooklyn), he has been a Fulbright Specialist and visiting professor or scholar at the University of Cambridge, University of Chile, University of Sydney, and Ural State Law University, Russia. He is a graduate of the law schools at the University of Wisconsin and Columbia University.