Michael Schmitt

Michael Schmitt is Professor of International Law at the University of Reading. Additionally, he is a Distinguished Scholar at New York University’s Reiss Center for Law and Security, an Affiliate at Harvard Law School’s Program on International Law and Armed Conflict, Visiting Research Professor at the International Institute for Humanitarian Law, and Professor Emeritus at the United States Naval War College. Professor Schmitt is also General Editor of the Lieber Studies series (Oxford UP).

Previously, Professor Schmitt was the G. Norman Lieber Distinguished Scholar at the United States Military Academy (West Point); Charles H. Stockton Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence at the United States Naval War College; Chair of the Stockton Center for International Law at the United States Naval War College;Dean of the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies in Germany; Professor of  Law at the University of Exeter, Durham University, and the United States Air Force Academy; and General Editor of International Law Studies and of the Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law. He served 20 years in the United States Air Force as a judge advocate specializing in operational and international law.

Professor Schmitt has been an invited visiting scholar at Melbourne University, Australian National University, Yale Law School, and Emory University. He has delivered many named and annual lectures, including the inaugural Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies Annual Lecture, the Ruth Steinkraus-Cohen Annual Law Lecture, James Crawford Biennial Lecture at Adelaide Law School, Sir Ninian Stephen Lecture at Melbourne University, and the Waldemar Solf Lecture at the US Army's Judge Advocate General's Legal Center and School.

Professor Schmitt serves on many boards of institutions, learned and professional societies, and publications dealing with international law in numerous countries.