William H. BoothbyWilliam H. Boothby is an associate fellow at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy and former Air Commodore. He retired in 2011 as Deputy Director of Legal Services for the Royal Air Force. He is the author of several leading texts on the law of arme conflict, including Weapons and the Law of Armed Conflict (2nd Edition, 2016) and The Law of War: A Detailed Assessment of the US Department of Defense 'Law of War Manual' (Cambridge, 2018) with Professor Wolff Heintschel von Heinegg. He has been a member of Groups of Experts that addressed Direct Participation in Hostilities that produced the HPCR Manual of the Law of Air and Missile Warfare, the 2013 Tallinn Manual on the International Law Applicable to Cyber Warfare and the Leuven Manual on the International Law Applicable to Peace Operations and teaches in Australia, Denmark and Geneva. Read More Read Less