Justin Paulette is an attorney in international and constitutional law. He graduated from The Catholic University of America School of Law with an interdisciplinary concentration in law and religion and a specialized program of study certificate from the Comparative and International Law Institute. He studied international business and trade Law at Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland, earned a Master's Degree in United States Studies from the University of London's School of Advanced Study, and is an undergraduate alumnus of his home-state's Ashland University.

Following law school, Paulette worked at a Washington, D.C. law firm before joining the U.S. Army JAG Corps and serving as the international law adviser for the Southern European Task Force and U.S. Army Africa. He affected national policy in Iraq as the legal adviser for U.S. Special Forces during Operation Iraqi Freedom. He then taught international law and military justice as the legal instructor for the Army's Directorate of Training at Ft. Benning.

He has published in USA Today, First Things, American Spectator, Intellectual Conservative, and the Washington Times. He has spoken at political science conferences and is regularly featured in Family Research Council's Social Conservative Review. He blogged at Imprimatur Blog and was a founding member of AOL's Political Machine (now Politics Daily) before joining the Ashbrook Center's No Left Turns.