Laurie Blank

Laurie R. Blank (Bluesky – LinkedIn) is a Clinical Professor of Law and the Director of the International Humanitarian Law Clinic at Emory Law School where she teaches the law of armed conflict and works directly with students to provide assistance to international tribunals, non-governmental organizations and militaries around the world on cutting edge issues in international law and armed conflict. From 2022-2024, she served as Special Counsel to the General Counsel of the Department of Defense. Professor Blank’s latest book is International Conflict and Security Law, and she is co-author of International Law and Armed Conflict: Fundamental Principles and Contemporary Challenges in the Law of War, a casebook on the law of war. She is also the co-director of the End of War Project, a multi-year project exploring a range of legal, policy, moral and strategic challenges in ending complex counterterrorism and counterinsurgency conflicts. Professor Blank has served as a Senior Fellow at the Lieber Institute for Law and Land Warfare and at the Stockton Center for International Law, and was as a core expert on the Woomera Manual on International Law of Military Space Operations and the Oslo Manual on Selected Problems in the Law of Armed Conflict.