Yoram Dinstein is Professor Emeritus of International Law at Tel-Aviv University. He has twice served as the Charles H. Stockton Professor of International Law at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, has previously been a Humboldt Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, a Meltzer Visiting Professor of Law at New York University, and a visiting Professor of Law at the University of Toronto. He has served as Chairman of the Israel national branch of Amnesty International, as a member of the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law, and on the Council of the San Remo International Institute of Humanitarian Law.