Michael N Schmitt

Professor Michael N. Schmitt is an international law scholar. He is the Director of the Stockton Center for the Study of International Law at the United States Naval War College^[1] in Newport, Rhode Island. He is also Professor of Public International Law at the University of Exeter,^[2] Honorary Visiting Professor of International Humanitarian Law at the University of Durham^[3] and Senior Fellow of the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence.^[4] He is considered as one of the world's leading experts in the law of armed conflict.

Education

Schmitt has D.Litt from Durham University, LL.M from Yale University, JD from University of Texas, MA from Naval War College, MA from Texas State University, BA from Texas State University.

Career

From 1979-1999, Schmitt was an intelligence officer and judge advocate in the United States Air Force. He served in Colorado, Rhode Island, Belgium, Greece, and Turkey. Schmitt graduated first in class from the Naval War College in 1996, and his operational law experience includes service in both Operation Provide Comfort and Operation Northern Watch.

In 1999, he became Professor of International Law at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies in Garmisch, Germany, eventually becoming Dean.^[5] He was subsequently Chair of Public International Law at Durham University before returning to the Naval War College as Chairman.

Selected Works

Research and Consulting Projects

Director, Tallinn Manual on the International Law Applicable to Cyber Warfare Project, NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence (2009 - 2012)^[6]

Legal Consultant on International Humanitarian Law and Public International Law to the World Food Programme, Libyan Uprising (2011)

Legal Consultant to the Public Commission to Examine the Maritime Incident of 31 May 2010 (Turkel Commission) (2010-2011)

Founding Member, Air and Missile Warfare Program in Legal Education (AMPLE) (2009-2011)

Member, Chatham House (Royal Institute of International Affairs) Project on Characterization of Conflict (2009-2012)^[7]

Drafting Committee, Harvard Manual on the International Law Applicable to Air and Missile Warfare (2003-2009)^[8]

Member, Group of International Experts, ICRC Interpretive Guidance on the Notion of Direct Participation in Hostilities (2003-2009)^[9]

Member, Chatham House and British Institute of International and Comparative Law Joint Project on Perspectives on the ICRC Customary International Humanitarian Law Study (2006-2007)^[10]

Books

Tallinn Manual on the International Law Applicable to Cyber Conflict, Cambridge University Press, 2013 (Project Director)

The Library of Essays on International Humanitarian Law, Ashgate, 6. vols. (Co-editor with Wolff Heintschel von Heinegg eds., Ashgate, 2012)

Essays on Law and War at the Fault Lines (T.M.C. Asser Press/Springer, 2012)

International Law and the War in Afghanistan (Naval War College International Law Studies, vol. 85) (Contributing editor, 2009)

International Law and Armed Conflict: Exploring the Faultlines (Martinus Nijhoff) (Contributing editor with Jelena Pejic, 2007)

Crimes of War 2.0 (Norton) (Legal editor, 2007)

Terrorism and International Law (Edizioni Nagard, Dragan European Foundation) (Contributing editor with Gian Luca Beruto, 2003)

Computer Network Attack and International Law (Naval War College International Law Studies, vol. 76) (Contributing editor with Brian T. O’Donnell, 2002)

International Law Across the Spectrum of Conflict (Naval War College International Law Studies, vol. 75) (Contributing editor, 2000)

The Law of Military Operations (Naval War College International Law Studies, vol. 72) (Contributing editor, 1998)

The Law of Armed Conflict: Into the Next Millennium (Naval War College International Law Studies, vol. 71) (Contributing editor with Leslie Green, 1998)

Levie on the Law of War (Naval War College International Law Studies, vol. 70) (Editor with Leslie Green, 1998)

Blockade Law: Research Designs and Sources (Legal Research Guides, vol. 12) (Hein, 1991)

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