Kevin Kelly ‘91, Assistant Dean for Curricular Affairs at the UW Law School and a Commander in the U.S. Navy Judge Advocate General’s Corps, recently spent two weeks teaching at the International Institute of Humanitarian Law (IIHL) in San Remo, Italy.  Kelly served as a Class Leader at the IIHL’s International Military Course on the Law of Armed Conflict, which has been held since 1976 in order to help governments come to terms with their obligation to ensure respect for the Law of Armed Conflict within their armed forces.

Kelly’s students came from Italy, the United Kingdom, Romania, Kenya, Singapore, Lithuania, Estonia, and Denmark; they were military officers, defense officials, or representatives of civilian non-governmental organizations. Kelly, who is a Navy Reserve officer currently assigned to the International Law Department of the U.S. Naval War College in Rhode Island, was the only representative of the United States military.  Two other Class Leaders were military officers from Denmark and the Republic of Ireland. 

In addition to serving as Class Leader for his own students, Kelly lectured all IIHL attendees on the “Law of Air Warfare” and the “Law of Naval Warfare.”  Kelly, who specializes in military Operational Law and Law of Armed Conflict Issues in the Navy, regularly teaches on related topics at the Law School.  In recent years he has taught International Law seminars on the “Just War Tradition” and on “Terrorism and the Laws of War.” 

Submitted by on May 25, 2007

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