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Dr iur, is Professor of Law at Freie Universität Berlin, where he teaches public law and international law. His recent work focuses on the growing role of cities on the global level; he is Co-Chair of the ILA Study Group “The Role of Cities in International Law”. His publications include “Complicity and the Law of State Responsibility” (CUP 2011), “The Interpretation of International Law by Domestic Courts” (OUP 2016, co-editor), “Das Recht der globalen Stadt” (Mohr Siebeck 2017) and “The Globalization of Urban Governance” (Routledge 2018, forthcoming, co-editor).
Bar-On is rapidly emerging as a leading, global authority on matters relating to the State of Israel and its place within the international community due to his extensive legal and strategic expertise.
He recently concluded a 25 year career in the Israel Defense Forces where he rose to the position of instructor at the Israel National Defense College (the INDC).
There he was tasked with mentoring both the group and individual studies of senior, select officials from within Israel and the international community, with a particular focus on matters of national security, strategy, international relations and economics.
Bar-On oversaw and led elite-level delegations to official visits in the US, China, Russia and numerous member states of the EU & NATO, participating in extensive dialogues and exchanges relevant to the national security of all parties present.
Prior to that position Bar-On served as the Deputy Military Advocate General of the IDF (2012 to 2015), where he was in command of approximately 1,000 lawyers and legal experts, including during the events prior to, during and following Operation Pillar of Defense & Operation Protective Edge.
He also served as the Chief Legal Advisor for the IDF in the West Bank from 2009 to 2012 and in a host of other senior legal positions, both as a litigator for the prosecution and the defense, as a judge and as a legal advisor.
A prolific lecturer, Bar-On has provided expert presentations to hundreds of high level, Israeli and international delegations in Israel and throughout the international community. He also led strategic international dialogues in a variety of sensitive issues.
Furthermore, he has lectured at preeminent graduate institutions throughout North America, bringing his legal experience to the fore in order to educate the next generation of legal practitioners, academics, public servants and elected officials.
Colonel Bar-On is a graduate of Tel Aviv University where he was awarded a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) degree and, later on, an Executive Master of Business Administration (E.M.B.A.) graduating (cum laude).
In 2016 he received a Masters degree in Political Science (M.A.) where he again graduated cum laude).
He is also a graduate of the Staff and Command College and the National Defense College of the IDF.
Bartels obtained his law degree from the University of Utrecht (2003) and a specialised LL.M. from the University of Nottingham (2004). He has been a Legal Officer in Chambers (Trial Division) of the International Criminal Court since the beginning of 2013. Prior to his present positions, he worked, inter alia, for the International Crimes Section of the Dutch National Prosecutor’s Office, where he worked on the first Dutch genocide case and the prosecution of members of the LTTE for war crimes and acts of terrorism, as a researcher at the Netherlands Defence Academy, as an Associate Legal Officer in Chambers at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, and as a legal adviser in the International Humanitarian Law Division of the Netherlands Red Cross.
Rogier is affiliated with the Military Law Section of the Netherlands Defence Academy, the Criminal Law Department of the VU University Amsterdam, and the Amsterdam Center for International Law (of the University of Amsterdam). At the latter university, he is in the process of finalising a PhD thesis on the application of international humanitarian law in international criminal trial, supervised by professors Terry Gill and Jann Kleffner. His publications deal with IHL and (international) criminal law, as well as the interplay between these two branches of international law.
Rogier regularly speaks at conferences, and gives lectures as part of (summer) courses and trainings, such as those provided by Professionals in Humanitarian Assistance and Protection. In 2014-2015, he was a visiting professor at the United Nations University of Peace (San Jose, Costa Rica) where he taught the International Criminal Law master course, and in the 2018-2019 academic year, he co-taught the International Crimes course in the LL.M. programme of the VU University Amsterdam.
Blank is a Clinical Professor of Law, Director of the Center for International and Comparative Law and Director of the International Humanitarian Law Clinic at Emory University School of Law, where she teaches the law of armed conflict and works directly with students to provide assistance to international tribunals, non-governmental organizations and militaries around the world on cutting edge issues in humanitarian law and human rights. Professor Blank is the co-author of International Law and Armed Conflict: Fundamental Principles and Contemporary Challenges in the Law of War, a casebook on the law of war (with G. Noone). She is also the co-director of a multi-year project on military training programs in the law of war and the co-author of Law of War Training: Resources for Military and Civilian Leaders. Professor Blank is a core expert on the Woomera Manual on International Law Applicable to Conflict in Outer Space and the Oslo Manual on Selected Problems in the Law of Armed Conflict. In addition, she is the Chair of the American Society of International Law Lieber Prize Committee and the series editor of the ICRC’s teaching supplements on IHL, and was a term member of the American Bar Association’s Advisory Committee to the Standing Committee on Law and National Security (2011-2014), a member of the Homeland Security Academic Advisory Council Subcommittee on Countering Violent Extremism, and a member of the Public International Law and Policy Group’s High Level Working Group on Piracy.
She is the author of numerous articles and opinion pieces on topics in the law of armed conflict, including targeted killing and drone strikes, the classification of armed conflict, implementation of the law of armed conflict during military operations, cyber war, and law and legitimacy in armed conflict. Before coming to Emory, Professor Blank was a Program Officer in the Rule of Law Program at the United States Institute of Peace. At USIP, she directed the Experts’ Working Group on International Humanitarian Law, in particular a multi-year project focusing on New Actors in the Implementation and Enforcement of International Humanitarian Law. Professor Blank received an A.B. in Politics from Princeton University, an M.A. in International Relations from The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at The Johns Hopkins University, and a J.D. from New York University School of Law.
Cherry was commissioned in August 1997. He has served in a variety of assignments including Deputy Legal Counsel, Office of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Staff Judge Advocate, 2d Marine Logistics Group; and Assistant Professor of International and Operational Law and Vice Chair, The Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center and School. In 2004, he deployed to Guantanamo Bay serving as Legal Advisor for the Combat Status Review Tribunals. In 2010, Lt. Col. Cherry deployed to Delaram, Afghanistan, as the Regimental Judge Advocate for 2d Marine Regiment.
Cooper is an associate professor at the Norwegian Defence University College, where she the senior operational law lecturer. In 2018, Cooper completed her PhD-research on NATO Rules of Engagement, with particular focus on hostile act, hostile intent, self-defence and direct participation in hostilities. The research was supervised by Professors Michael N Schmitt (US NWC) and Alf Petter Høgberg (UiO). She teaches operational law at all levels of the Norwegian Armed Forces, and has presented and taught LOAC and ROE at several specialised courses and seminars, including the Operational Law Course at the NATO School Oberammergau (2015-present). She has both acted as and supervised legal advisers and ROE officers at several war-gaming exercises, in Norway, Sweden and most recently at NATO HQ. In 2011, she deployed as a military legal adviser to ISAF, and in 2013, she completed the development of the first Norwegian Manual of the Law of Armed Conflict. She was one of the prime authors of the NATO STANAG 2597 on Training in ROE, completed 2014, and in 2015, she was a visiting scholar at the Stockton Center for the Study of International Law, at the US Naval War College.
Cooper has a bachelor of law and sociology from Cardiff University, and received her LLM in Public International Law from Nottingham University. She has also completed basic officers’ training and several specialised courses in the law of armed conflict, operational law and targeting.
Corn is the Vinson & Elkins Professor of Law at South Texas College of Law Houston. Prior to joining the South Texas faculty in 2005, Professor Corn served in the U.S. Army for 21 years as an officer, retiring in the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in 2004, and a final year as civilian legal expert on law of war matters. Professor Corn’s teaching and scholarship focuses on the law of armed conflict, national security law, criminal law, and criminal procedure. His Army career included service as the Army’s senior law of war expert advisor, tactical intelligence officer in Panama; supervisory defense counsel for the Western United States; Chief of International Law for US Army Europe; Professor of International and National Security Law at the US Army Judge Advocate General’s School; and Chief Prosecutor for the 101st Airborne Division. He earned is B.A. from Hartwick College in Oneonta, NY, his JD with highest honors from George Washington University, his LLM as the distinguished graduate from the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General’s School. He is also a distinguished military graduate of U.S. Army Officer Candidate School, and a graduate of U.S. Army Command and General Staff Course. Professor Corn has testified as an expert witness at the Military Commission in Guantanamo, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, and in federal court. He is co-author of The Law of Armed Conflict: An Operational Perspective; The Laws of War and the War on Terror; National Security Law and Policy: Principles and Policy; U.S. Military Operations: Law, Policy, and Practice; National Security Law and the Constitution, and Law in War: A Concise Overview (with K. Watkin and J. Williamson).
Crawford is a senior lecturer and an associate of the Sydney Centre for International Law (SCIL). Previously at the Law Faculty at the University of New South Wales, Emily completed her Arts and Law degrees before working as a researcher at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, before returning to UNSW to undertake her PhD. Her doctoral thesis on the disparate treatment of participants in armed conflicts was published by Oxford University Press in 2010.
Emily has taught international law and international humanitarian law, and has delivered lectures both locally and overseas on international humanitarian law issues, including the training of military personnel on behalf of the Red Cross in Australia. A member of the International Law Association’s Committee on Non-State Actors, as well as the NSW Red Cross IHL Committee, Emily’s most recent research project examined major developments in the conduct of armed conflicts in the 21st century, such as cyber warfare, targeted killings, and the increasing presence of civilians directly participating in armed conflicts. The research project was published in 2015 by Oxford University Press as Identifying the Enemy: Civilian Participation in Armed Conflict.
Dickinson is the Oswald Symister Colclough Research Professor of Law and Professor of Law at The George Washington University Law School. Her work focuses on national security, human rights, the law of armed conflict, and foreign affairs privatization. She has published numerous books, articles, and book chapters, including recent scholarship that has appeared in the American Journal of International Law, the Yale Journal of International Law, the NYU Journal of International Law and Politics, the William & Mary Law Review, and the Emory Law Journal. Professor Dickinson’s prizewinning book, Outsourcing War and Peace, published by Yale University Press, examines the increasing privatization of military, security, and foreign aid functions of government, considers the impact of this trend on core public values, and outlines mechanisms for protecting these values in an era of privatization.
In addition to her scholarly activities, Professor Dickinson has a distinguished record of government service. She served as Special Counsel to the General Counsel of the Department of Defense and was awarded the Secretary of Defense Medal for Exceptional Public Service for her work there. She has also served as a senior policy adviser to Harold Hongju Koh, Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor at the U.S. Department of State, and is a former law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justices Harry A. Blackmun and Stephen G. Breyer, and to Judge Dorothy Nelson of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Prior to her position at GW, Professor Dickinson was, from 2008-11, the Foundation Professor of Law and the faculty director of the Center for Law and Global Affairs at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University (ASU). She has also been on the faculty of the University of Connecticut School of Law, where she taught from 2001 to 2008, and she was a Visiting Research Scholar and Visiting Professor in the Law and Public Affairs Program at Princeton University in 2006-2007. Professor Dickinson is a graduate of Harvard College and Yale Law School.
Professor Dickinson has served as a Future of War Fellow with the New America Foundation’s International Security Program and as the Co-chair of the International Law and Technology Section of the American Society of international Law. She has also previously served as a member of the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law, and co-organizer of a Collaborative Research Network on Empirical Approaches to International Human Rights Law, convened under the auspices of the Law & Society Association.
Fogt is associated professor of law (civil and international law) at Aarhus University, Denmark, where his main area of research and teaching is international trade law, comparative law, CISG and Private International Law. He has held positions and taught at several other universities, including the University of Kiel, Saarbrücken, Louvain, Vilnius, Riga and Tarty. In addition, he teach the master course ’The Law of Armed Conflict and Military Operations’ at Aarhus University, which course has both a legal and operational focus. He has worked as an army officer of the reserve since 1985 in various positions, including intelligence, current operations and planning at Battalion, Brigade, Division and Corps level. The last 15 years he has been Legal Advisor (LEGAD) in Danish Brigades, the NATO Multi National Corps North East, Stettin (PL) and Danish Division (DNK). He is Lieutenant Colonel of the Danish Army and currently Chief LEGAD in the NATO Multi National Division North (MND North), Riga.
Gross is the Irving Younger Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota Law School. He is an internationally recognized expert in the areas of international law and national security law.
Professor Gross holds an LL.B. degree magna cum laude from Tel Aviv University, and LL.M. and S.J.D. degrees from Harvard Law School. He has taught and held visiting positions in numerous leading institutions such as Harvard Law School and Princeton University.
Professor Gross has received numerous academic awards and scholarships, including a Fulbright scholarship and British Academy and British Council awards.
Between 1986 and 1991, Professor Gross served as a senior legal advisory officer in the international law branch of the Israeli Defense Forces’ Judge Advocate General’s Corps. In 1998, he served as the legal adviser to an Israeli delegation that negotiated an agreement with the Palestinian Authority’s senior officials concerning the economic component of a permanent status agreement between Israel and Palestine.
Professor Gross’s work has been published extensively in leading academic journals such as the Yale Law Journal and Yale Journal of International Law, to mention but two. His book, Law in Times of Crisis: Emergency Powers in Theory and Practice, was awarded the prestigious Certificate of Merit for Preeminent Contribution to Creative Scholarship by the American Society of International Law in 2007. His book, Guantanamo and Beyond: Exceptional Courts and Military Commissions in Comparative Perspective, was published in 2013.
In 2017, Professor Gross was awarded the Stanley V. Kinyon Tenured Faculty of the Year Award, University of Minnesota Law School.
Professor Gross practiced law both in Israel and in New York (where he practiced with Sullivan & Cromwell). In 2008 he joined the American Law Institute as an elected member.
Gross served over 30 years in the U.S. Army as an infantry officer and judge advocate. In the latter part of his career, he was the principal legal advisor for JSOC; USFOR-A and NATO ISAF; and USCENTCOM. He served his final four years in the military as Legal Counsel to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Following his retirement from the military, Rich served as a partner at a DC-area law firm and later as the in-house general counsel for a government contractor. He serves on three nonprofit boards: The Independence Fund; Military Community Youth Ministries; and the Spookstock Foundation. He is a Distinguished Fellow at the University of Virginia Law School’s Center for National Security Law; a Senior Fellow at Columbia Law School; and a Lieber Institute Associate at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.
Rich’s military decorations include the Defense Superior Service Medal; the Legion of Merit; and the Bronze Star. He earned the U.S. Army Ranger Tab, the Master Parachutist Badge, the Air Assault Badge, and the Expert Infantryman Badge. He is a 1985 graduate of the US Military Academy at West Point; a 1993 graduate of the University of Virginia Law School; and a 2009 graduate of the US Army War College.
Hogg is the Legal Advisor and Head of legal department at the ICRC’s Regional Delegation for the United States and Canada, based in Washington, D.C. Prior to this position, she worked for over 7 years in the ICRC’s legal division in Geneva, firstly as Legal Adviser in the Arms Unit, then as Legal Adviser to Operations for Asia and the Pacific.
Nicole joined the ICRC in 2003 as a field delegate in the West Bank, then in Côte d’Ivoire. From 2006-2008 she held the post of ICRC regional legal adviser for Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific, based in Sydney, Australia.
Prior to joining the ICRC Nicole worked as a commercial litigator in Melbourne and as a research solicitor at the Law Institute of Victoria. She has published on the topic of women as perpetrators in the Rwandan genocide. She holds a Law degree and an Arts degree (with a major in French) from the University of Melbourne and an LLM in international law from McGill University in Canada.
Hoofstat holds master’s degrees in Law and Political Sciences both from the Catholic University of Leuven and a European Master’s degree in Human Rights and Democratisation from the European Inter-University center in Venice. Marie Van Hoofstat started her professional career as an intern at the Brussels Representation of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) handling GIZ contacts with European institutions and with partners in Brussels. Next, she completed an awarded internship from the European Inter-University Centre at the Human Rights Department of the Belgian Federal Public Service Foreign Affairs. In 2011 she joined the Belgian Armed Forces to become a Legal Advisor (LEGAD) in the Operational Law Section of the Directorate Legal Support and Mediation. From 2014 to 2017 she was detached to the service of the Assistant Chief of Staff – Operations and Training. Currently she is launching the LEGAD function at the Air Component. She also fulfilled the function of Secretary of the Belgian Commission for the Legal Review of new Weapons, Means and Methods of Warfare.
Since 2012, Captain Marie Van Hoofstat participates in operational deployment. She was involved in planning the EU Training Mission in Mali, amongst others. She also saw operational service as the LEGAD to the Belgian ISAF Contingent in Kandahar. In 2014 she was the LEGAD for the first F-16 detachment operating in Iraq (based in Jordan), and most recently in 2017 she was deployed to Al-Udeid Air-base (Qatar) for Operation Inherent Resolve in Iraq and Syria.
Huang is Changjiang Outstanding Young Scholar Professor and Vice Dean of Wuhan University Law School, China. Professor Huang specializes in public international law, and his areas of academic interest include international law and governance of cyberspace, and law of international organizations. He served (or serves), among others, as member of the International Group of Experts of the Tallinn 2.0 Project on International Law Applicable to Cyber Operations, and Special Rapporteur of the Working Group on International Law in Cyberspace, Asian African Legal Consultative Organization (AALCO). Professor Huang was a Fulbright visiting scholar at Harvard Law School during the academic year 2010-2011, and he also did visiting research at Utrecht University (the Netherlands, 2003), the Max Planck Institute of Comparative Public Law and International Law (Germany, 2003/2016), Warsaw University (Poland, 2010) and University of Exeter (UK, 2016).
Professor Huang began to teach at Wuhan University in 2002. Before that, he received his SJD (2002) and LL.M.(1999) from the Law School of Wuhan University. He also received a Masters in International Law and Economics (2003) from the World Trade Institute in Bern, Switzerland.
Jenks is the Director of the Criminal Clinic and Associate Professor of Law at the Dedman School of Law, Southern Methodist University. He was on leave from the law school during academic year 2017-2018 while serving as the Special Assistant to the Department of Defense General Counsel in Washington, D.C.
Chris Jenks joined the SMU Law faculty in Fall 2012 and teaches criminal law, evidence, and the law of armed conflict. His research considers how the nature and type of armed conflict (peacekeeping, coalition, non-international, international) impact accountability norms and practice. He is currently researching the efficacy of the law of armed conflict as applied to lethal autonomous weapons.
Professor Jenks is a fellow at the Asia Pacific Centre for Military Law’s Program on Emerging Military Technology at Melbourne Law School in Australia and at SMU’s John Goodwin Tower Center for Political Studies, and serves as the deputy course director the Peace Support Operations course at the International Institute for Humanitarian Law in Sanremo, Italy. Prior to joining the SMU law faculty, Professor Jenks served in the US Army, first as an Infantry Officer and later as a Judge Advocate, and was detailed to the Office of the Legal Adviser at the Department of State and as a Special Assistant US Attorney on both the civil and criminal side at the Department of Justice.
He is the co-author of a law of armed conflict textbook and has published book chapters with both Oxford and Cambridge University presses. His articles have appeared in the law reviews and journals of Harvard, Berkeley, Georgetown, Stanford, & Washington & Lee and the International Review of the Red Cross. His blog posts have been featured on Lawfare, Just Security, and Opinio Juris. He has presented to House and Senate Staffers on Capitol Hill, at the American Society of International Law, the Council on Foreign Relations, and at universities and institutes around the world.
In 2016, he presented at the United Nations Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons Expert Meeting on Lethal Autonomous Weapons (LAWS) in Geneva, Switzerland. In 2015, he was awarded a Fulbright Senior Scholars Grant to research LAWS as part of a multidisciplinary research group based out of Melboune, Australia. He has spoken on LAWS at the Australian Defence Legal Division Headquarters, the Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law, the German Institute for International and Security Affairs, and at the University of Oxford. In 2014, he served on a working group on the environment and armed conflict at the United Nations in New York organized by the Special Rapporteur for the International Law Commission. And in 2013, he served as a consultant to the Office of the Secretary of Defense on security sector reform in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Prior to joining the SMU faculty, Professor Jenks served for more than 20 years in the U.S. military, first as an infantry officer serving in Germany, Kuwait and as a NATO peacekeeper in Bosnia, and then as a judge advocate serving near the demilitarized zone in the Republic of Korea and later in Iraq, where he provided law of armed conflict advice on targeting and detention issues during combat operations. The Department of Justice’s Counterterrorism Section nominated him for the John Marshall Award for interagency cooperation following his work as the lead prosecutor in the Army’s first counterterrorism trial involving a soldier who attempted to aid an al-Qaeda terrorist. While working in the human rights and refugees section of the Office of the Legal Adviser at the Department of State, he served as a member of the U.S. delegation to the Third Committee of the United Nations General Assembly. In his last assignment, Professor Jenks served as the chief of the international law branch for the U.S. Army in the Pentagon, where he supervised the program by which foreign countries asserted criminal jurisdiction over U.S. service members and represented the DOD at Status of Forces Agreement negotiations; he was also the legal adviser to the U.S. military observers group, which provides personnel to U.N. missions around the world.
Jensen teaches and writes in the areas of Public International Law, Criminal Law, The Law of Armed Conflict, International Criminal Law, Cyber Law and National Security Law. His recent scholarship has appeared, among others, in the Texas, Temple, Houston, and Israel Law Reviews; the Virginia, Stanford, Chicago, Michigan, and Minnesota Journals of International Law; the Stanford Law and Policy Review; and International Law Studies. Professor Jensen is a co-author on a law school casebook on the Law of Armed Conflict and a student treatise on National Security Law for Aspen Publishing and a co-author on an Oxford University text analyzing application of the laws of war to the war on terror. He was a member of the group of experts that produced both the Tallinn Manual on the International Law Applicable to Cyber Warfare and the recently released Tallinn Manual 2.0 on the International Law Applicable to Cyber Operations.
Professor Jensen recently returned to BYU Law School after serving for one year as the Special Counsel to the Department of Defense General Counsel. Prior to joining the BYU law faculty in 2011, Professor Jensen spent 2 years teaching at Fordham Law School in New York City and 20 years in the United States Army as both a Cavalry Officer and as a Judge Advocate. During his time as a Judge Advocate, Professor Jensen served in various positions including as the Chief of the Army’s International Law Branch; Deputy Legal Advisor for Task Force Baghdad; Professor of International and Operational Law at The Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center and School; legal advisor to the US contingent of UN Forces deployed to Skopje, Macedonia as part of UNPREDEP; and legal advisor in Bosnia in support of Operation Joint Endeavor/Guard.
Kurosaki is an Associate Professor of International Law and the Director of the Study of Law, Security and Military Operations at the National Defense Academy of Japan Ministry of Defense. In this capacity, he has also been active as a legal adviser to the Japanese Self-Defense Forces (JSDF) and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan sometimes representing the Japanese government in diplomatic negotiations on international human rights and humanitarian law. He has published a range of articles and book chapters on the law of international security, the law of armed conflict, international criminal law, and Japanese security laws.
Ma’udi is the new Legal Adviser for the Permanent Mission of Israel to the United Nations and serves as the Israeli representative to the Sixth (Legal) Committee of the UN and as the Mission’s expert on counterterrorism.
Prior to being appointed Legal Adviser, Ms. Weiss Ma’udi served as the Director of the International Law Department of the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs at headquarters in Jerusalem. In that capacity, she served as counsel for a wide range of topics, ranging from legal matters pertaining to the political process and Israeli policies vis-à-vis its neighbors (Jordan, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, and the Palestinians); the International Court of Justice; the International Criminal Court; human rights law; international humanitarian law; European Union law; counterterrorism; the Iran agreement; water law; maritime law; international borders; international law relating to natural gas and oil; and more.
Ms. Weiss Ma’udi has been involved in numerous complex international negotiations. In 2010, she concluded a maritime border agreement on behalf of the State of Israel with the Government of the Republic of Cyprus. From 2011-2018 she headed the Israeli delegation in negotiations with Cyprus on a framework unitization agreement for the joint development of cross-boundary gas reserves. She has also worked intensely on other regional maritime disputes and transboundary energy issues. Weiss Ma’udi also served as legal counsel on the regional Red Sea-Dead Sea Water Conveyance project, supported by the World Bank, and concluded the Phase I desalinization agreement with the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan in this context. She has also drafted water and sewage treatment agreements with the Palestinian Authority and was a member of the Israeli team on water issues during the U.S.-lead proximity talks with the Palestinians.
Weiss Ma’udi also led the team that drafted Israel’s recent written submission to the International Court of Justice regarding the Chagos Archipelago Advisory Opinion, as well as the team that complied Israel’s 2018 Universal Periodic Human Rights Review (UPR), which was presented in Geneva before the U.N. Human Rights Council. She has also published a number of articles on the law of the sea and related issues, maritime delimitation, and energy issues in the Mediterranean, as well as a chapter in the Hebrew University Law School’s textbook on public international law.
Ms. Weiss Ma’udi is also the founder of the Women in Diplomacy Network, a joint initiative of Israeli and foreign female diplomats, and has headed efforts to promote Israeli-led legal capacity building in the developing world. At present, she is in the process of establishing a project at the UN that seeks to forge partnerships between Northern and Southern States in order to foster legal capacity-building in developing States, based on similar programs she has developed and run in the past on the bilateral level.
Prior to working at the Foreign Ministry, Ms. Weiss Ma’udi worked as an associate lawyer for Gross, Kleinhendler, Hodak, Halevy, Greenberg & Co., one of Israel’s top corporate law firms, specializing in international contract law. She also taught public international law at the Ono Academic College in Israel and worked at the Israel Ministry of Justice’s International Treaties and Litigation Department.
Weiss Ma’udi is a summa cum laude graduate of the University of Pennsylvania; holds a Masters Degree in Regional Studies of the Middle East from Harvard University; and received her J.D. degree from New York University School of Law. She is a member of both the New York State Bar Association and the Israel Bar Association and is fluent in both English and Hebrew, and is also proficient in Arabic, Spanish, and French. She is the proud mother of three.
McClurg serves as Vice President and Ambassador-At-Large in Cylance’s Office of Security & Trust. He engages the industry around the globe on today’s risk challenges and how Cylance uniquely mitigates them with the application of AI & machine learning. Champions a move from a historically reactive security posture to one focused on proactively predicting and preventing future risks.
He comes to Cylance from Dell where he served as its CSO, advancing responsibilities that included the strategic focus and tactical operations of Dell’s internal global security services, both physical and cyber. He was also charged with the advocacy of business resilience and security prowess generally, the seamless integration of Dell’s various security offerings, and with improving the effectiveness and efficiency of security initiatives, including Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery.
Before joining Dell, McClurg served as the Vice President of Global Security at
Honeywell International; Lucent Technologies/Bell Laboratories; and in the U.S.
Intelligence Community, as a twice-decorated member of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation (FBI), where he held an assignment with the US Department of Energy (DOE) as a Branch Chief charged with establishing a Cyber-Counterintelligence program within the DOE’s newly created Office of Counterintelligence. Prior to that, McClurg served as a Supervisory Special Agent within the FBI, assisting in the establishment of the FBI’s new Computer Investigations and Infrastructure Threat Assessment Center or what was later known as the National Infrastructure Protection Center within the Department of Homeland Security. McClurg also served, for a time, on assignment as a Deputy Branch Chief with the Central Intelligence Agency, helping to establish the new Counterespionage Group and was responsible for the management of complex counterespionage investigations. He also served as a Special Agent for the FBI in the Los Angeles Field Office where he implemented plans to protect critical US technologies targeted for unlawful acquisition by foreign powers and served on one of the nation’s first Joint Terrorism Task Forces.
McClurg was voted one of America’s 25 most influential security professionals; holds a J.D. Degree from Brigham Young University; is a member of the Utah Bar
Association; Co-chaired the Overseas Security Advisory Council (OSAC) of the U.S.
Department of State; is a Special Advisor to the FBI’s Office of the Private Sector; and served as the founding Chairman of the International Security Foundation. He also holds an MA in Organizational Behavior, BS and BA degrees in University Studies and Philosophy from Brigham Young, and advanced doctoral studies in Philosophical Hermeneutics at UNC-Chapel Hill and UCLA.
Meier currently serves as the senior civilian adviser to the Army Judge Advocate General on matters related to the Law of War. He advises on legal and policy issues involving the law of war, reviews proposed new weapons and weapons systems, serves as a member of the DoD Law of War Working Group, and provides assistance on detainee and Enemy Prisoner of War affairs. Mr. Meier previously served as an Attorney-Adviser with the Office of the Legal Adviser for Political-Military Affairs, U.S. Department of State, from June 2009 until June 2016, providing advice on the application of the law of war to U.S. military operations; supporting U.S. diplomatic initiatives, including ongoing dialogue with the ICRC, the United Nations and other intergovernmental organizations; and advising on international agreements and arms control agreements, such as the Ottawa Convention, Convention on Cluster Munitions, the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, and the Arms Trade Treaty. Mr. Meier served almost 23 years as an Army Judge Advocate from 1986 until his retirement as a Colonel in August 2009 in a variety of positions including the Staff Judge Advocate, Fort Carson, Colorado; Principal Deputy Legal Counsel to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Staff Judge Advocate, U.S. Army South; Deputy Staff Judge Advocate, 25th Infantry Division (Light), Hawaii; and as Deputy Staff Judge Advocate, Multi-National Division (N), Tuzla, Bosnia.
Padin is a Lawyer from the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), currently working at the Office of International Affairs of the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights of Argentina. He was part of the team that represented the UBA and won the international rounds of the XXIX Jean Pictet Competition on International Humanitarian Law (Bordjomi, Georgia). As member of the National Observatory on IHL, he organized the first national IHL competition (2018) and is part of the Committee that selects and coaches the teams of the UBA that participates in the Jean Pictet and Clara Barton Competitions. He is also a Research Scholar on the Projects “International Law as a Language: Semantic tensions, textual appropriations and rhetorical discourse in the narrative consolidation of global law order” and “Globalization and Democracy: the challenges of global governance for a collective self-government and its impact in Argentina”. He has worked in the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) office in Buenos Aires as Researcher on the Right to Food and Food Security. He has participated in several conferences and published articles on the History of International Law, International Security and Non-proliferation, Human Rights, Food Security, Gender and International Humanitarian Law. He also won the XIII “Ignacio Winizky” Essays competition of the Journal Lecciones y Ensayos (LATINDEX I) with the paper “Cyber-Participants: Direct Participation in Hostilities through cybernetic means and methods”.
Reeves is a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Army. He is an Associate Professor and Deputy Head in the Department of Law at the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York. A 1996 West Point graduate, Lieutenant Colonel Reeves was commissioned as an Armor officer and served as a platoon leader, fire support officer, and troop executive officer with 1st Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment. After attending law school, Lieutenant Colonel Reeves transitioned into the Judge Advocate General’s Corps in 2003. Since becoming a Judge Advocate, Lieutenant Colonel Reeves has served in a number of legal positions including: as the Chief of Legal Assistance, Ft. Riley, Kansas; Brigade Judge Advocate for 3rd Brigade, 1st Armored Division in Taji, Iraq; Senior Trial Counsel, 1st Infantry Division at Ft. Riley, Kansas; Professor of International and Operational Law at the Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center and School in Charlottesville, Virginia and most recently served as the Deputy Staff Judge Advocate at Joint Special Operations Command, Ft. Bragg, North Carolina. Lieutenant Colonel Reeves holds a LL.M in Military Law from the Judge Advocate General’s School, and a Juris Doctorate from the College of William and Mary. He speaks and writes often on the Law of Armed Conflict including: co-editing U.S. Military Operations: Law, Policy, and Practice published by Oxford University Press, acting as the Managing Editor of the Lieber Institute for Law and Land Warfare Series published by Oxford University Press, contributing to national security blogs such as LAWFARE and Just Security, authoring numerous publications available for viewing at <http://ssrn.com/author=2091508>. At West Point, Lieutenant Colonel Reeves teaches the Law of Armed Conflict and Constitutional and Military Law.
Smidt comes to the Criminal Justice faculty after retiring as a colonel from the U.S. Army with 31 years of active service.
Professor Mike Smidt joined the U.S. Army in 1976 as a paratrooper infantryman with the 82d Airborne Division. He left active duty three years later and enlisted in the U.S. Army Reserve, 12th Special Forces Group. He spent a total of nine years in the U.S Army Reserve. Mike became a police officer with the San Diego Police Department in 1982. He completed college part-time and entered law school in 1985. After completing law school, he became a Deputy City Attorney in the Criminal Division of the Office of the City Attorney in San Diego.
Eventually, in January of 1990, Professor Smidt elected to return to active duty in the U.S. Army as a Judge Advocate. He has served as a defense attorney, prosecutor, and chief of criminal law. He was a professor of International and Operational Law at the Judge Advocate General’s School, an ABA accredited graduate law program. Professor Smidt held several positions of significant responsibility including, Deputy Staff Judge Advocate, 82d Airborne Division; Staff Judge Advocate, U.S. Army Aviation Warfighting Center and School; Staff Judge Advocate,1st Infantry Division; Staff Judge Advocate, US Special Operations Command; Chief of Operations and International Law, US Northern Command and NORAD; Staff Judge Advocate, US Strategic Command.
Professor Smidt participated in numerous exercises and operations including Operation Desert Storm, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait; Operation Uphold Democracy, Haiti; Operation Iraqi Freedom and New Dawn, Iraq. His awards include the Defense Superior Service Medal with oak leaf cluster, Bronze Star Medal with oak leaf cluster, Defense Meritorious Service Medal with 6 oak leaf clusters, Army Commendation Medal with 2 oak leaf clusters, Joint Service Achievement Medal, Army Achievement Medal, Good Conduct Medal, Army Reserve Component Achievement Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Southwest Asia Service Medal, Iraqi Campaign Medal, Global War On Terrorism Expeditionary Medal, Global War On Terrorism Service Medal, Humanitarian Service Medal, Kuwait Liberation Medal, Kuwait, Army Service Ribbon, Overseas Service Ribbon, Army Reserve Overseas Training Ribbon, Joint Meritorious Unit Award, Valorous Unit Award, Meritorious Unit Award, Special Forces Tab, Master Parachutist Wings, and Republic of Korea Senior Parachutist Wings.
Mike has had several articles published with a focus on international and operational law.
Stewart has served in a number of appointments during his career in the Army Legal Services including operational, prosecution and training posts. He deployed to Kosovo in 1999 as the legal adviser to Commander British Forces. Over the period 2000 – 2003 whilst serving at the UK Permanent Joint Headquarters, Brigadier Stewart saw further operational duty in Sierra Leone, the Balkans, the Middle East and Afghanistan acting as the legal adviser to Commanders of British Forces in each of these theatres.
Brigadier Stewart was posted to SHAPE in 2003 as the Assistant Legal Adviser (UK) with responsibility for providing legal advice on Host Nation and Logistic matters across NATO including participating in the production of various NATO policy documents and negotiating a Strategic Airlift MOU with the Russian Federation. From 2005 – 2006 he also served as the Commander Legal, Headquarters Northern Ireland where he was heavily involved in legal issues associated with the normalisation process in Northern Ireland, including the development of UK legislation relating to enduring military support to civil authorities.
In August 2006 Brigadier Stewart was posted to Headquarters Allied Rapid Reaction Corps (HQ ARRC) and deployed to Afghanistan as the Chief Legal Adviser, HQ International Security Assistance Force for Afghanistan (ISAF) from August 2006 – March 2007. In 2009 Brigadier Stewart was appointed Director of the Military Department, International Institute of Humanitarian Law, Sanremo Italy. Brigadier Stewart served as Chief of Staff, Directorate of Army Legal Services at Army Headquarters Andover and subsequently Assistant Director Administrative Law from 2012 – 2015. He was appointed Deputy Assistant Chief of Staff – Legal, Headquarters Field Army in November 2015. Brigadier Stewart assumed his current appointment as of Head of Operational Law for the British Army in October 2016. In May 2012 Brigadier Stewart was appointed on a part time basis to the judicial appointment of Assistant Coroner for Inner West London (Westminster) and in September 2015 he was appointed an Assistant Coroner for the County of Surrey. Brigadier Stewart was elected to the Council of the International Institute of Humanitarian Law in March 2017 and as Vice President of the International Society of Military Law and the Law of War (ISMLLW) in 2018.
Thomson is a Commander in the Canadian Forces and a member of the Office of the Judge Advocate General. He has served as a legal advisor on missions to Bosnia (2003/2004) with the Canadian Battle Group and to Afghanistan (2009/2010) as the Deputy Legal Advisor to the Canadian Task Force advising on a range of operational law issues including tactical use of force. He has practiced in military justice, served as Deputy Judge Advocate to the Canadian Norad Region, headed the Assistant Judge Advocate General’s office in Toronto and served as the Director of International Law. He has published in, and presented on International law in a number of forums.
VanLandingham is a national security law expert and former judge advocate in the U.S. Air Force (USAF) who was appointed to the Southwestern Law School full-time faculty as an Associate Professor of Law in Fall 2014. She currently teaches criminal law, constitutional criminal procedure, and national security law.
During Professor VanLandingham’s military career, she served as a senior legal advisor on the international law of armed conflict, military prosecutor, criminal defense attorney, appellate defense attorney and nuclear surety inspector, stationed in the United States, South Korea, and Italy with deployments to the Middle East. She was the legal advisor for international law at Headquarters, U.S. Central Command, where she advised on operational and international legal issues related to the armed conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq. She also served as the Command’s Chief Liaison to the International Committee of the Red Cross, and traveled throughout those countries in efforts to improve procedural safeguards and humane treatment standards for detainees in U.S. custody, as well as provided advice to the Department of Justice regarding habeas cases brought on behalf of detainees in Afghanistan.
Immediately prior to coming to Southwestern, Professor VanLandingham was the Bruce R. Jacob Visiting Assistant Professor at Stetson University College of Law, where she taught legal ethics, criminal procedure, civil procedure and international law from 2012 to 2014. Before joining the Stetson faculty, she was the Deputy Department Head of the Department of Law and Assistant Professor of Law at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado, where she managed a legal department of 19 professors and taught international law and military law courses.
Professor VanLandingham is a frequent commentator in the national media particularly regarding military justice and law of war issues; she has also provided expert advice to policymakers on issues related to sexual assault in the military as well as regarding international humanitarian law. In 2013, she testified before the Response Systems to Adult Sexual Assault Crimes Panel, a congressionally-mandated body chartered to examine sexual assault in the U.S. military, and did the same in 2014 before a similarly-constituted Judicial Proceedings Panel. In September 2016 she commented on law of war matters at a briefing organized by the House Foreign Affairs Committee. She has published Op Eds in the Washington Post, USA Today, and other media, and has been interviewed on CNN, MSNBC, NPR, and Democracy Now.
Professor VanLandingham’s award-winning scholarship explores the procedural and normative elements of decision-making and the development of norms in national security law, military criminal law and international law. In 2015 she won the second edition of the Benjamin B. Ferencz Essay Competition, hosted by the Frederick K. Cox International Law Center, for her article, “Criminally Disproportionate Warfare: Aggression as a Contextual War Crime” for which she received a $10,000 prize and publication of her work.
Her work has appeared in the Cardozo Law Review, the Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law, the Case Western Journal of International Law, the Pepperdine Law Review, the Southwestern Law Review, the Denver Journal of International Law and Policy and the Valparaiso University Law Review. She is the co-author of the 2015 Oxford University Press book, U.S. Military Operations: Law, Policy and Practice along with Professors Geoffrey Corn and Shane Reeves.
A 1992 graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy, where she earned her B.S. in Political Science, Professor VanLandingham completed her Master of Public Management, emphasis in national security, from the University of Maryland, College Park as a MacArthur Scholar in 1994. She received her J.D. with high honors in 2000 from the University of Texas at Austin, where she was inducted into the Chancellor’s Society, and her LL.M. in Military Law (International and Operational Law Specialty) in 2006 from the Judge Advocate General’s School, where she was named to the Commandant’s List.
Wineberg is a military lawyer for the Israeli Defense Force. LTC Weinberg is the current Head of the Operational Law Branch, and serves as one of the main legal advisors on events in Gaza.
YING is currently a M.Phil.-PhD student in Wuhan University Law School and majors in public international law, especially space law and international law in cyberspace.
Zyberi is the Head of the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Oslo and a member of the UN Human Rights Committee (2019-2022). He holds a bachelor’s degree (LL.B) from Tirana University, Albania, and a Master’s degree (LL.M) and a PhD degree in International Law from Utrecht University, the Netherlands. Professor Zyberi’s research interests include the contribution of the International Court of Justice and other international courts and tribunals to interpreting and developing rules and principles of international human rights and humanitarian law; the protection of community interests under international law; the operationalization of the responsibility to protect doctrine; and, transitional justice issues, with a focus in the Balkans.