kindly invite you to a lecture:
New Means of Combat and Warfare:
How Does the Law Respond?
by Prof. William Boothby
Thursday 2 April 2015, 09:00-11:00
Faculty of Law
De Valk - room DV 01.13
Tiensestraat 41
3000 Leuven
Participation is free, but we kindly ask you to register
by 31 March at conference@ggs.kuleuven.be.
Short Bio:
Air Commodore Bill Boothby retired as Deputy Director of Legal Services (RAF) in July 2011. In 2009 he took a Doctorate in International Law at the Europa Universität Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder) in Germany and in the same year published ‘Weapons and the Law of Armed Conflict’ through OUP. His second book, ‘The Law of Targeting’, appeared with the same publisher in 2012. He was a member of the Group of Experts convened by the ICRC to discuss Direct Participation in Hostilities, was a member of the Group of Experts who produced the HPCR Manual of the Law of Air and Missile Warfare and was a member of the Group of Experts and of the drafting committee of the CCD/COE project that has produced the Tallinn Manual on the Law of Cyber Warfare. His third book, Conflict Law, was published in March 2014. He has an associate fellowship at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy and teaches at Royal Holloway College, University of London, at the Australian National University, Canberra and at the University of Adelaide. He lectures and speaks widely on international law issues.