Professor Knowles joined Chicago-Kent's legal research and writing faculty in 2009. His research focuses on the application of international relations theory to administrative law, national security law, and constitutional law. His articles have been published in the Iowa Law Review, Arizona State Law Journal, Harvard International Law Journal Online, and New York University Annual Survey of American Law. Professor Knowles was previously an acting assistant professor in the Lawyering Program at New York University School of Law. From 2003 to 2006, as an associate at Covington & Burling LLP in New York, he represented clients in the areas of white collar criminal defense and complex commercial litigation, and began his representation of sixteen Yemeni detainees at Guantánamo Bay. Professor Knowles received his J.D. magna cum laude from Northwestern University School of Law in 2001. Following law school, he clerked for Judge M. Margaret McKeown of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.