Prof. Michael A. Newton: "The military's perspective on war crimes"

​Michael A. Newton is Professor of the Practice of Law at the Vanderbilt University Law School, Tennessee (USA) and an expert on accountability and conduct of hostilities issues. He currently serves on the executive council of the American Society of International Law (ASIL) and has previously served on its Task Force on U.S. Policy toward the ICC (2008-9). He was one of the two U.S. delegates who negotiated the Elements of Crimes document for the ICC (1999-2001). Professor Newton has been involved in drafting the Statute of the Iraqi High Tribunal (2003-4) and served as International Law Advisor to the Iraqi Judicial Chambers (2006-7). He was also a member of the Special Court for the Sierra Leone academic consortium (2002). Professor Newton had a distinguished military career and handled over 500 cases as a military prosecutor (1991-5). In 1996 he was appointed as a professor of international and operational law at the Judge Advocate General's School in Charlottesville, Virginia (1996-9). He also served in the State Department's Office of War Crimes Issues (1999-2000 & 2001-2). Over the course of his career, he has published more than 70 articles and book chapters; he also serves as a senior editor of the Terrorism International Law Reporter series published by Oxford University Press. Professor Newton holds a J.D. and an LL.M. degrees from the University of Virginia School of Law (1990 and 2001 respectively); an LL.M. degree from the Judge Advocate General's School, Virginia (1996), and a B.S. degree from the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York (1984).