Professional Note: Sean Watts, School of Law

Sean Watts, associate professor of law, has been reassigned by the U.S. Army as a reserve officer to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point as an instructor in the Department of Law. Watts also was involved in several activities this past summer including:

• June 9-10: Presented a Judgment Briefing and Review of Prosecutor v. Gotovina et al., at Fordham University Law School, to a meeting of defense team members and professors of international law from four U.S. law schools. The meeting inspired an amicus brief to be developed this fall for submission to the International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia.
• June 15-19: Led a drafting team at the Tallinn Manual on Law of Armed Conflict in Cyberwarfare Drafter’s Conference convened by the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Center of Excellence in Tallinn, Estonia. The manual has just been accepted for publication by Cambridge University Press.
• June 30-July 3: Delivered a panel presentation on “The Status of Government Forces in Non-International Armed Conflict” at the Annual Naval War College Law of Armed Conflict Symposium in Newport, R.I.
• July 27-29: Contributed as a defense team member to the Defence Appeal Brief in Prosecutor v. Gotovina et al. at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.
• July 30: Drafted and submitted “U.S. Law of Armed Conflict Investigation Country Study” for the Government of Israel, Turkel Commission Investigation of Mavi Mara Incident. 3L G.O.A.L. student Alex Kunz provided critical research support for this 70-page report.
• Aug. 19-24: Gave two lectures on the Law of Armed Conflict: “Regulating Means & Methods of Emerging Warfare” and “Regulation of Private Security Contractors on the Battlefield” to the Red Cross’ International Humanitarian Law Course at Beijing University Law School. International law professors from over 20 Chinese law schools attended.
• Sept. 1-7: Delivered a panel presentation on “Cyber Operations and the Law of Armed Conflict” to the 25th Annual U.S. Pacific Command Military Operations Conference, Gold Coast, Australia. This conference included some 200 military lawyers and operational leaders from more than 15 Asia-Pacific and North American nations.

Share/Bookmark