A SOFA Built for Two: Implementing U.S.-Iraqi Security Agreements

JP Schnapper-Casteras, a predoctoral fellow at CISAC, is a joint degree candidate at Stanford Law School and Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. His research on U.S.-Iraqi relations focuses on how legal agreements and bilateral accords shape internal security and regional relations. 

JP has worked at the House Foreign Affairs Committee, State Department, and West Point’s Combating Terrorism Center and conducted research at the Stanford Constitutional Law Center, Stanford Law School’s Olin Program in Law and Economics, Harvard Law School, the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, and the Center for American Progress. 

JP graduated from Stanford University in 2005 with an MA in sociology and a BA with honors in political science.