Air Commodore Bill Boothby retired as Deputy Director of Royal Air Force Legal Services in July 2011. In 2009 he took a Doctorate at the Europa Universität Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder) in Germany and has published books, inter alia, on Weapons Law, Targeting Law, the law relating to conflict and on new and emerging technologies. With Prof Wolff Heintschel von Heinegg, he published a Commentary on the US DoD Law of War Manual and a book entitled ‘Nuclear Weapons Law’, both with CUP. In January 2025 Air Commodore Boothby published AI Warfare and the Law through the US Naval War College and in May 2025 a project that he led culminated in the publication of a revised book, jointly edited with Prof Heintschel von Heinegg, on Nuclear Weapons Law. His tenth book, dealing with Brain Technologies, Warfare and the Law, was published in May 2026. His newly established substack is @williamboothby.

He has been a member of Groups of Experts that addressed Direct Participation in Hostilities and that produced the HPCR Manual on the Law of Air and Missile Warfare, the 2013 Tallinn Manual on the Law of Cyber Warfare and the Leuven Manual on Peace Operations Law. He is Visiting Professor at the University of Johannesburg.

Professor Gary Corn is the director of the Technology, Law & Security Program and an adjunct professor of cyber and national security law and the law of armed conflict. A recognized expert on the intersection of cyber and national security law and policy, Professor Corn joined TLS after serving twenty-six years on active duty in the U.S. Army as a military attorney practicing national security law at the highest levels within the Department of Defense. His final five years he served as the Staff Judge Advocate (General Counsel) to U.S. Cyber Command. Professor Corn is a frequent, and highly-sought out speaker at international and national conferences and has published numerous articles, book chapters, and blog posts, including in the American Journal of International Law and the Lieber Institute’s Articles of War. He has contributed chapters to several Oxford University Press books and is a co-author of National Security Law and the Constitution (Wolters Kluwer)(2020).

During his military career, Professor Corn served in various positions at the brigade, division, and corps level, including multiple times as a military prosecutor, civil litigator, and operational law attorney. His assignments include serving as a Deputy Legal Counsel to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Operational Law Branch Chief in the Office of the Judge Advocate General of the Army, the Staff Judge Advocate to U.S. Army South, a Special Assistant United States Attorney in the District of Columbia, and on deployment as the Chief of International Law for Combined Forces Command in Afghanistan. Professor Corn received a JD from the George Washington University, a BA in International Relations from Bucknell University, an LLM from the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center and School, and an MA in National Security Studies from the United States Army War College. He is also a graduate of the Escola de Comando e Estado Maior do Exército do Brasil (Command and General Staff College of the Brazilian Army).

Morten M. Fogt holds a higher doctor (dissertation) degreed in law (dr. jur.) within comparative law and private international law. After his law study 1986-1991 he worked as Danish practising lawyer from 1991-1995, studied LL.M. in Kiel University 1996-1997 and passed the exam as German lawyer (Rechtsanwalt) 1998.

From 1998-2001 he was a researcher at Kiel University and in 2002-2003and taught at Vilnius, Riga and Tartu Universities until he became professor, first lecturer (associated prof.) 2004-2007, then in 2007 temporary professor in Civil and International Law at Aarhus University and since 2016 senior associated professor. He has been teaching as visiting professor in Kiel, Tartu, Louvain-La-Neuve and been temporary Member of St. John’s College, Oxford and affiliated to the Institute for European and Comparative Law, Oxford University. In 2010-2011 Morten M. Fogt by the Danish Ministry of Justice was appointed as the Chair of the negotiation on the Proposal for a Common European Sales Law (CESL). He was part of the Steering Committee on European Association of Private International Law (EAPIL) and has been Vice-President and member of the EAPIL Board and Scientific Council since its foundation from 2019 to 2026. In 2022 he hosted the EAPIL Founding Conference in Aarhus.

Dr Eirini Giorgou is a legal adviser in the ICRC’s Arms & Conduct of Hostilities Unit. She works on the law regulating the conduct of hostilities, including urban warfare, the use of heavy explosive weapons in populated areas, nuclear weapons, and IHL and the environment. She has extensive experience in multilateral disarmament diplomacy and negotiations outside the ICRC. Eirini is a licensed lawyer and holds a PhD in international law from the University of Geneva.

Eric Talbot Jensen is the Robert W. Barker Professor of Law at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, and recently returned to BYU after serving for a 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. 

Professor Jensen is a graduate of Brigham Young University (B.A., International Relations), University of Notre Dame Law School (J.D.), The Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center and School (LL.M.) and Yale Law School (LL.M.). Professor Jensen is an expert in the law of armed conflict, public international law, national security law, and cyber warfare. He was one of the group of global experts who prepared the Tallinn Manual on the International Law Applicable to Cyber Warfare, and the Tallinn Manual on the International Law Applicable to Cyber Operations. He is co-author on The Law of Armed Conflict: An Operational Perspective, The Laws of War and the War on Terror, and National Security Law and Policy: a Student Treatise. He is the author of more than fifty law journal publications focusing on international law, the law of armed conflict, national security law, cyber law and international criminal law.

Captain of Justice, Senior Officer of the Legal Directorate of the Command of the Unmanned Systems Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

He holds a Master's degree in Law from Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University (Kharkiv, Ukraine).

He met the onset of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine while serving as a soldier in a volunteer unit. He later served as a Legal Advisor to the International Legion for the Defence of Ukraine, where he gained practical experience in providing legal support to military operations and advising commanders on legal matters at the tactical level.

He subsequently joined the Command of the Unmanned Systems Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, where he assumed the position of Operational-Level Legal Advisor.

His primary responsibilities include providing legal support for the planning and execution of operational- and strategic-level military operations, advising commanders on the application of international humanitarian law and Ukrainian national legislation during military planning and operations, and ensuring the legal support of the activities of the Command of the Unmanned Systems Forces.

Afonso was born in Porto, Portugal, in 1973. He joined the Portuguese Province of the Society of (Jesuits) in 1998, after he graduated in Law by the Portuguese Catholic University (Porto), and was ordained priest in 2010. Afonso, as a Jesuit, did his degree in Philosophy by the Portuguese Catholic University (Braga) for which he was awarded the Prize Pe Vitorio de Sousa Alves, and he has a degree in Theology by the Pontificia Universita Gregoriana, Italy). After his theological studies, Afonso went to London and has a Master’s in International Law and Human Rights by the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE -UK). In early 2019, Afonso completed his doctoral thesis in International Humanitarian Law at the School of Law of the University of Essex (UK), entitled The Legitimacy and Accountability for the Deployment of Autonomous Weapon System under International Humanitarian Law, published by CUP (2022). 

In September 2018, Afonso became a post-doc research fellow of the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict (ELAC – University of Oxford) directed by Professor Dapo Akande at the Blavatnik School of Government. From 2021-2026, Afonso taught at Saint Louis University School of Law. In July 2026 Afonso joined Boston College School of Law as an Associate Professor. Afonso’s research focus on the implications of modern technologies on the battlefield, namely the use of outer space during situation of armed conflict.

Brigadier-General (Ret’d) Ken Watkin, OMM, CD, KC served for 33 years in the Canadian Armed Forces. This included 28 years as a military lawyer with four of those years (2006-2010) as the Judge Advocate General.  Ken advised extensively on international and domestic operational law issues following 9/11; represented the Canadian United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda (UNAMIR) Commander, Lieutenant-General (Ret’d) Dallaire, following the 1994 genocide, appearing as Government counsel in 2004 before the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, and was the advisor to the 1993 joint civilian/military Board of Inquiry investigating the Canadian Airborne Battlegroup in Somalia. 

Post military retirement Ken served as a Foreign Observer to the Israeli Independent Commission investigating the 31 May 2010 Gaza blockade incident, was the Charles H. Stockton Professor of International Law at the United States Naval War College (2011-2012), and was a United Nations consultant on battlefield evidence collection in Nigeria and to the Canadian government regarding human intelligence collection. 

Ken Watkin has written extensively about the application of international law to contemporary conflict with his book Fighting at the Legal Boundaries: Controlling the Use of Force in Contemporary Conflict (Oxford University Press, 2016) being awarded the 2017 Francis Lieber Prize by the American Society of International Law as “an exceptional published work in the field of armed conflict.”  Ken also co-authored a second book, Law in War: A Concise Overview (Routledge, 2^nd ed., 2023) and is presently co-editing a book scheduled for publication in the Fall of 2026, Law in the Shadows of War: Espionage and Sabotage in Modern Conflict. He has published over seventy articles, commentaries and book reviews on international humanitarian law, human rights and national security law (see LinkedIn profile) with his work being cited by both the Canadian and Israeli Supreme Courts.  His work now concentrates on the international law governing espionage, sabotage and treachery during hybrid warfare and contemporary armed conflict.