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Judge James E. Baker is a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces. Immediately prior to his appointment to the bench in 2000, he served for three years as Special Assistant to the President and Legal Adviser to the National Security Council (NSC), where he advised the President, the National Security Advisor and the NSC staff on United States and international law involving national security, including the use of force, the law of armed conflict, intelligence activities, foreign assistance, terrorism, arms control, human rights, and international law enforcement. His earlier public service included service as the Deputy Legal Adviser to the National Security Council, Counsel to the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board and Intelligence Oversight Board, and as an Attorney Adviser in the Office of the Legal Advisor, Department of State. Judge Baker also served as an officer in the U.S. Marine Corps.

Professor Michael Bothe is Professor of Public Law at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany. Professor Bothe has served as a Visiting Professor at the University of Montreal, the University of Florida, and the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, and was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Michigan. He is currently serving as Chairman of the Advisory Commission on Humanitarian Law of the German Red Cross; on the Scientific Advisory Board, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg, Germany; and as the President of the German Society of International Law. He was a member of the German delegation to the Diplomatic Conference on International Humanitarian Law (1974-77).

Professor Bothe is the author and/or editor of numerous books and articles on international humanitarian law as well as international law questions relating to the maintenance of international peace and security.

Professor Ove Bring is Professor of International Law at Stockholm University and at the Swedish National Defense College. He is Chairman of the Swedish Branch of the International Law Association and has served as Special Legal Adviser at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs. He participated in the Thomson/Blackwell humanitarian mission to the former Yugoslavia, reporting to the Committee of Senior Officials of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) (1992-1993). In 1994 he headed a Swedish human rights mission to China and Tibet, reporting to the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs. In February 1995 he was appointed Swedish Conciliator under the European Convention on Conciliation and Arbitration within the CSCE, now The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). Professor Bring was on the Central Board of Directors for the Swedish Red Cross from 1996 to 1999, and is currently a member of the Governing Council of the San Remo Institute of International Humanitarian Law and a Swedish Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague.

Vice Admiral Arthur K. Cebrowski, US Navy (Ret.), commanded Fighter Squadron 41 and Carrier Air Wing 8, both embarked in USS NIMITZ (CVN 68). He later commanded the assault ship USS GUAM (LPH 9) and, during Operations DESERT SHIELD and DESERT STORM, the aircraft carrier USS MIDWAY (CV 41). Following promotion to flag rank, he became Commander, Carrier Group 6 and Commander, USS America Battle Group.

In addition to combat deployments to Vietnam and the Persian Gulf, he deployed in support of United Nations operations in Iraq, Somalia, and Bosnia. He served with the US Air Force; the staff of Commander in Chief, Atlantic Fleet;

the staff of the Chief of Naval Operations, on four occasions; with the Joint Staff (as J6); and as Director, Navy Space, Information Warfare, and Command and Control (N6). Vice Admiral Cebrowski became the forty-seventh President of the Naval War College in July 1998. Following retirement, in November 2001 Vice Admiral Cebrowski was appointed as Director of the Office of Force Transformation within the Office of the Secretary of Defense.

Captain William H. Dalton, JAGC, US Navy (Ret.), is currently assigned to the Department of Defense Office of General Counsel, as Associate Deputy General Counsel (Intelligence). From 1965 to 1995 he served as a judge advocate in the United States Navy. His assignments included service as the Executive Officer, Naval Legal Service Office, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii;

the Deputy Assistant Judge Advocate General (International Law) within the Office of the Judge Advocate General, Department of the Navy; the Staff Judge Advocate, United States Pacific Command in Hawaii; and as the Inspector General, Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C. Captain Dalton also served on the faculty of the U.S. Naval War College as the first Deputy Director, Oceans Law and Policy Department.

Professor Yoram Dinstein is currently the Charles H. Stockton Professor of International Law at the US Naval War College, an appointment he also filled from 1999-2000. Previously, he served as a Humbolt Fellow at the Max Planck Institute of Foreign, Comparative and International Law in Heidelberg, Germany (2000-01) and as Professor of International Law, Yanowicz Professor of Human Rights, President (1991-98), Rector (1980-85), and Dean of the Faculty of Law (1978-80) at Tel Aviv University. Professor Dinstein started his career in Israel's Foreign Service and served as Consul of Israel in New York and a member of Israel's Permanent Mission to the United Nations (1966-70). He is a member of the Institute of International Law and the Council of the International Institute of Humanitarian Law in San Remo.

He was among the group of international lawyers and naval experts that produced the San Remo Manual on International Law Applicable to Armed Conflicts at Sea. Formerly, he served as Chairman of the Israel national branch of Amnesty International and was also a member of the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law. Professor Dinstein is the editor of the Israel Yearbook of Human Rights and has written extensively on subjects relating to international law, human rights, and the law of armed conflict.

Professor Rudolf Dolzer is a Professor and the Director, Institute for International Law at the University of Bonn, Germany. He attended Gonzaga University on a Fulbright Scholarship and has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Michigan School of Law, Cornell Law School and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Professor Dolzer has been a Research Fellow, Max-Planck-Institute of Comparative Public Law and International Law.

From 1992 to 1996 he served as Director General in the Office of the German Federal Chancellor. He is currently a member of the Directorate, German Society for Foreign Policy; the Advisory Board, Drager-Foundation, Liibeck;

the International Board, Instituto de Empresa, Madrid; the Board of Directors, International Development Law Institute, Rome; and the German Parliament's Commission of Enquiry on Globalization.

Colonel David E. Graham, US Army, is the Chief, International and Operational Law Division within the Office...

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