armed forces. He has previously worked for the State Pollution Control Authority in Oslo, and as a lecturer in public and military law at the Military Academy. In 1986 he became Judge Advocate and two years later became Judge Advocate General. Since 2006 he has been President of the International Society for Military Law and the Law of War. Yoram Dinstein is Professor Emeritus at Tel-Aviv University. He is a former President of the University (1991–1998), as well as former Rector and former Dean of the Faculty of Law. He served twice as the Charles H. Stockton Professor of International Law at the US Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island. He was also a Humboldt Fellow at the Max Planck Institute of International Law in Heidelberg, Germany, a Meltzer Visiting Professor of Law at New York University and a Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Toronto. He is a Member of the Institute of International Law.