Geoffrey Corn is the Vinsen & Elkins Professor of Law at the South Texas College of Law Houston.
Ken Watkin served for 33 years in the Canadian Forces, including four years as the Judge Advocate General. In 2002 he was appointed to the Order of Military Merit, in 2006 a Queen’s Counsel, and in 2010 he received the Canadian Bar Association President’s Award. Ken was responsible for providing operational law advice regarding Canada’s military operations post-9/11, and worked as government counsel for various inquiries arising from the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Since his retirement in 2010, he has served as a foreign observer to the Israeli Independent Commission investigating the 2010 Gaza blockade incident, and as the Charles H. Stockton Professor of International Law at the United States Naval War College.
Jamie Williamson is the executive director of the International Code of Conduct for Private Security Providers Association. He previously worked with the International Committee of the Red Cross in a number of legal, operational and managerial positions in Geneva, Washington D.C., and Southern Africa. He also served from 1996–2005 with the UN ad hoc international criminal tribunals in Tanzania and the Netherlands, and the Special Court for Sierra Leone.
