<span class="vcard">Michael Schmitt</span>

Michael Schmitt

Member, Board of Editors

Michael Schmitt (Bluesky – LinkedIn) is Professor of International Law at the University of Reading, Distinguished Scholar at NYU School of Law’s Reiss Center on Law and Security, Affiliate at Harvard Law School’s Program on International Law and Armed Conflict, and Visiting Research Professor at the International Institute of Humanitarian Law. He formerly served as the G. Norman Lieber Distinguished Scholar at West Point, Chair of the Stockton Center for International Law at the US Naval War College, where he is Professor Emeritus, Dean of the George C. Marshall Center European Center for Security Studies, and Professor of Law at the University of Exeter, Durham University, and the United States Air Force Academy. Professor Schmitt is a retired U.S. Air Force judge advocate, having specialized in international and operational law, and graduate of the U.S. Naval War College (1st in Class) and Air War College. He is the General Editor of the Lieber Studies series (OUP) and sits on many international law advisory and editorial boards.

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A Vulcan Rocket from United Launch Alliance (ULA) lifts off from pad 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
Israeli soldiers walk through an open field in Beit Sahur, south of Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank.
Ships are anchored in the Strait of Hormuz on August 10, 2026 off the coast of Bandar Abbas, Iran.
An F/A-18E Super Hornet approaches to land on an aircraft carrier flight deck, with the nose and wing-mounted missiles of another jet in the foreground and a flight deck crew member signaling below.
Damaged bridge over a river with a large hole in the middle and people looking on.
U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth testifies during a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on July 21, 2026 in Washington, DC.
Smoke and fire rises from the Dormition Cathedral in the Orthodox complex of the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra following a Russian missile strike on the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on June 15, 2026, amid the Russian invasion in Ukraine.
Police and forensic investigators examine the location of impact after a Russian drone struck an apartment building in Galati, eastern Romania.
Head of the Shin Bet domestic security service Major General David Zini (L) speaks with Israel's army chief Lieutenant General Eyal Zamir as they wait for a speech by US President Donald Trump at the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, in Jerusalem on October 13, 2025.
Image of a globe focused on East Europe and parts of western Russia.
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