Michael N. Schmitt

Michael N. Schmitt is an international law scholar specializing in international humanitarian law and use of force issues. He is the Chairman of the Stockton Center for the Study of International Law at the United States Naval War College.^[1] He is also Professor of Public International Law at the University of Exeter,^[2] the Francis Lieber Distinguished Scholar at the Lieber Institute of the United States Military Academy at West Point,^[3] Fellow at Harvard Law School's Program on International Law and Armed Conflict,^[4] and Senior Fellow at the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence. Professor Schmitt is the General Editor of International Law Studies,^[5] a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts, and a Member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

From 1979-99, 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. He was subsequently Chair of Public International Law at Durham University before returning to the Naval War College as Chairman of the Stockton Center for the Study of International Law.^[6]

Education

D.Litt from Durham University; LL.M from Yale Law School; JD from the University of Texas Law School; MA from the Naval War College; and an MA and BA from Texas State University.

Affiliations

• Drafting Committee, Harvard University's Manual on the International Law Applicable to Air and Missile Warfare (2003–09)
• Member, Group of International Experts, ICRC Interpretive Guidance on the Notion of Direct Participation in Hostilities (2003–09)
• Director, Tallinn Manual Project ^[7](2009-2013)
• Director, Tallinn Manual 2.0 Project^[8] (20013-2016)

Books

• Targeting: The Challenges of Modern Warfare, (Asser; with Paul Duchiene and Frans Osinga), 2016 ISBN 978-94-6265-071-8
• Tallinn Manual on the International Law Applicable to Cyber Warfare, Cambridge University Press, 2013 ISBN 978-1107613775
• The Library of Essays on International Humanitarian Law, Ashgate, 6. volumes (Ashgate; with Wolff Heintschel von Heinegg), 2012 ISBN 978-0754629399
• Essays on Law and War at the Fault Lines, T.M.C. Asser Press/Springer (2012) ISBN 978-9067049641
• International Law and the War in Afghanistan (Naval War College International Law Studies, vol. 85), 2009
• International Law and Armed Conflict: Exploring the Faultlines (Martinus Nijhoff; with Jelena Pejic), 2007
• Terrorism and International Law (Edizioni Nagard, Dragan European Foundation; with Gian Luca Beruto), 2003
• Computer Network Attack and International Law (Naval War College International Law Studies, vol. 76; with Brian T. O'Donnell), 2002
• International Law Across the Spectrum of Conflict (Naval War College International Law Studies, vol. 75), 2000
• The Law of Military Operations (Naval War College International Law Studies, vol. 72), 1998
• The Law of Armed Conflict: Into the Next Millennium (Naval War College International Law Studies, vol. 71; with Leslie Green), 1998
• Levie on the Law of War (Naval War College International Law Studies, vol. 70; with Leslie Green), 1998
• Blockade Law: Research Designs and Sources (Legal Research Guides, vol. 12), Hein Publishing (1991)

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