The Law of Targeting

Bill Boothby recently retired as Deputy Director of Legal Services for the Royal Air Force. He served in Germany, Cyprus, Hong Kong, Croatia and in a variety of locations in the United Kingdom. In 2009 he was awarded a Doktor der Rechte degree in international law at the University of Frankfurt (Oder) in Germany and published his associated doctoral thesis with OUP under the title Weapons and the Law of Armed Conflict. He is on the Editorial Board of the UK Manual of the Law of Armed Conflict, and contributed as one of the group of experts to the Harvard Manual on the International Law of Air and Missile Warfare. He is currently engaged as a member of the core group of international law experts preparing a Manual on the International Law of Cyber Warfare. Following retirement from the RAF, he plans to teach international law at a number of Universities and to continue to write and speak on the subject.


Michael Schmitt is the Chairman of the International Law Department at the United States Naval War College. He has previously served as Chair of Public International Law at Durham University in the United Kingdom and as Dean of the Marshall Center in Germany. Professor Schmitt is presently Director of the a group of international law experts preparing a Manual on the International Law of Cyber Warfare, and has previously participated as an international expert in such efforts as the Harvard Manual on the International Law of Air and Missile Warfare. A retired US Air Force officer, Professor Schmitt sits on many advisory and editorial boards in the field of international law. He was the 2007-2008 Charles H. Stockton Professor at the US Naval War College and the 2006 Sir Ninian Stephen Scholar at Melbourne University.