Hardy has had a long career of advocating for those with little means or voice to advocate for themselves. He has extensive experience with asylum law, including recent work on two successful Afghan refugee matters involving college-age students. He also handled a high-profile case involving a United States Army soldier facing court-martial after blowing the whistle on the abuses at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. Recently, he was a human rights observer at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, during the pretrial proceedings involving alleged 9.11 plotters. In 2011 and 2012, he co-led two service-learning trips to Haiti where medical and lay personnel provided primary medical care to local residents. These two trips came on the heels of a humanitarian relief mission to Haiti two weeks after the 2010 earthquake. Before moving to private practice, Hardy served as a criminal appellate defense counsel in the United States Navy’s Judge Advocate General’s Corps. He frequently serves as a commentator on military justices issues on NPR, CNN, and The Wall Street Journal, among others. In May 2013, he wrote an opinion piece on military sexual assaults, which was published in the digital edition of The New York Times. He received his A.B. at Duke University and J.D./MPP from the University of Michigan.