Charles G. Warren

Biography

Professor Charles G. Warren serves as an Assistant Professor of Law at Campbell University School of Law, where he teaches Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, and Evidence.

Before joining Campbell Law in 2025, Professor Warren completed a distinguished 21-year career in the U.S. Air Force, specializing in military justice as a litigator, policy analyst, educator, and jurist. Honored as the “Distinguished Graduate” of the Joint Military Judge’s Course (#1 of 46 judges across the Department of Defense), he culminated his service as a military trial judge (2018–2023) and appellate judge (2023–2025) on the Air Force Court of Criminal Appeals, presiding over complex criminal cases from the U.S. Air Force and Space Force worldwide.

Professor Warren twice deployed to combat zones in Iraq and Afghanistan, leading litigation teams adjudicating detention review boards for thousands of suspected unlawful enemy combatants. As Officer in Charge of the detention review boards for Combined Interagency Task Force 435 at Bagram Airbase, Afghanistan, in 2011, he and his 21-member team adjudicated the cases of more than 3,000 detainees. He also partnered with Iraqi and Afghan prosecutors to pursue criminal charges in local courts when unclassified evidence permitted.

A recognized authority in military justice policy, Professor Warren was hand-selected by the General Counsel of the Department of Defense to serve on the Military Justice Review Group, charged with the first comprehensive overhaul of the Uniform Code of Military Justice (Title 10, United States Code, Chapter 47) and the Manual for Courts-Martial since 1983. This work resulted in the enactment of the Military Justice Act of 2016.

While his litigation and policy experience is extensive, Professor Warren’s enduring passion is teaching. Over his career, he has trained and mentored hundreds of attorneys and paralegals as a supervising attorney, judge, and Chief of the Military Justice Division at the Air Force Judge Advocate General’s School (AFJAGS). From 2015–2018, he modernized the curriculum and advocacy training for the Air Force’s flagship military justice courses, earning recognition as the school’s Instructor of the Year (#1 of 23).

Professor Warren earned his J.D. from Mercer University’s Walter F. George School of Law, where he served on the law review, and is a graduate of the Air Force’s Air Command and Staff College and Air War College.

His scholarly research focuses on the intersection of military justice and its civilian counterpart, particularly the influence of evidentiary law on trial advocacy and practice. He explores how developments in one system shape the other—how trends in the civilian criminal justice system have influenced military justice, and how military justice reforms may offer models for civilian criminal law.