Necessity and Proportionality in International Peace and Security Law
Edited by Claus Kreß and Robert Lawless
Author Information
Claus Kreß, Professor of International Law and Criminal Law, University of Cologne, Robert Lawless, Assistant Professor in the Department of Law, United States Military Academy
Claus Kreß is a Professor of International Law and Criminal Law. He holds the Chair for German and International Criminal Law and is the Director of the Institute of International Peace and Security Law at the University of Cologne. His prior practice was in the German Federal Ministry of Justice on matters of criminal law and international law. In addition to his scholarly work, comprising more than 150 publications on the law on the use of force, the law of armed conflicts and international criminal law, he has been a member of Germany's delegations in the negotiations regarding the International Criminal Court since 1998. He is a Life Member of Clare Hall College at the University of Cambridge, a Member of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Northrhine-Westfalia, and the recipient of the 2014 M.C. Bassiouni Justice Award. He holds honorary doctorates from the State University Tbilisi and the University of Huánuco.
Robert Lawless is a Judge Advocate in the United States Army Judge Advocate General's Corps. He has been assigned as both a prosecutor and defense counsel, litigating military justice cases in courts-martial. He also served as an administrative and operational law attorney for the Third Infantry Division during Operation Resolute Support in Afghanistan. His assignments also include serving as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Law at the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York.
Contributors:
Brigadier General Joseph B. Berger III is the Commander and Commandant of the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General's Legal Center and School.
Adam Brown is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the New School for Social Research, a clinical psychologist, Director of the Trauma and Global Mental Health Lab, and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at New York University School of Medicine.
Geoffrey S. Corn is the Vinson & Elkins Professor of Law at South Texas College of Law.
Elisabeth Günnewig is a Judge in the District Court in Aachen, Germany.
Sarah Knuckey is an Associate Clinical Professor of Law, Director of the Human Rights Clinic, and Co-Director of the Human Rights Institute at Columbia Law School.
Claus Kreß is Professor of Public International Law and Criminal Law. He is Director of the Institute for International Peace and Security Law and Chair for German and International Criminal Law at the University of Cologne.
Dino Kritsiotis is a Professor of Public International Law at the University of Nottingham.
Masahiro Kurosaki is an Associate Professor of International Law and the Director of the Study of Law, Security, and Military Operations at the National Defence Academy of the Japanese Ministry of Defence.
Captain Robert Lawless is a Judge Advocate in the United States Army Judge Advocate General's Corps.
Eliav Lieblich is an Associate Professor at Tel-Aviv University.
Audrey McCalley is a public health professional who graduated from Columbia University. She specialized in the intersection of the social and medical sciences as well as sustainability issues.
Jeff McMahan is the White's Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Oxford.
Rebecca Mignot-Mahdavi is a Ph.D. candidate in Law at the European University Institute.
Alex Moorehead is a Human Rights Officer at the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.
Stefan Oeter is a Professor of German and Comparative Law and Public International Law at the University of Hamburg.
Jens David Ohlin is a Vice Dean and Professor of Law at Cornell Law School.
Tom Ruys is a Professor of International Law at Ghent University.
Larissa van den Herik is the Vice Dean and a Professor of Public International Law at Leiden University.
Wolff Heintschel von Heinegg is Chair of Public Law at European University Viadrina.