Law of Armed Conflict and Asymmetric Warfare: Adaptive or Maladaptive?

Sunday, January 11

7:00pm:  Welcome dinner

Monday, January 12

9:30-11:00:      Introduction & Overview (discussion paper by Krasner & Waxman to be circulated in advance)

11:15-12:15:    Gaza: Typical or Outlier?  (introductory comments from Daniel Reisner, former head of the international law branch for the Israel Defense Forces)

12:15-1:30:      Lunch

1:30-4:30         Discussion of shorter papers from conference participants: First Session

7:00                 Dinner

Tuesday, January 13

9:30-11:00:      Discussion of shorter papers from conference participants: Second Session

11:15-12ish:    Proposed commentaries and discussion of publications

 Participants:

Commander Mike Adams: Deputy Legal Adviser to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

Ken Anderson: Professor of Law, American University; Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace at Stanford; member of the Hoover Task Force on National Security and Law; non-resident visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution, and senior fellow at the Rift Valley Institute

Peter Berkowitz: Tad and Dianne Taube Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution

Tanisha Fazal: Co-Director, Notre Dame International Security Program

Rebecca Ingber: Associate in Law at Columbia Law School

Steven Krasner: Graham H. Stuart Professor of International Relations, Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution Department of Political Science at Stanford University, and former Director of Policy Planning for the Department of State

Colonel (res) Daniel Reisner: Head of the International Law Branch of the Israel Defense Forces

Mike Schmitt: Director of the Stockton Center for the Study of International Law at the United States Naval War College; Professor of International Law at the University of Exeter; Senior Fellow of the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defense Centre of Excellence

Janice Stein: Belzberg Professor of Conflict Management in the Department of Political Science and the Director of the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto

Guglielemo Verdirame: Professor of International Law at King’s College London

Matthew Waxman: Liviu Librescu Professor of Law and Faculty Chair of the Roger Hertog Program on Law and National Security at Columbia University

Benjamin Wittes: Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution; Research Director in Public Law, and Co-Director of the Harvard Law School – Brookings Project on Law and Security