Amsterdam Uni Prof. of Military Law Terrence Gill to be first KDU Moragoda Endowment Professor

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From 19-26 August, the Sir John Kotelawala Defence University (KDU) will be host to the first series of lectures in international law by a visiting expert funded and introduced by the Moragoda International Law Trust.

The Moragoda Endowment Professor of International Law will deliver first lectures and hold Seminars on International Humanitarian Law, the subject of this year’s course selected by the KDU. The first Professor will be Professor Terence Gill, Professor of Military Law at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands, author of several works on Military Law and editor of manuals on the subject. Professor Gill expects not only to promote a deeper academic understanding of International Humanitarian Law, but will also encourage an interactive approach to the subject, inviting his audience to discuss and debate principles, bringing into focus issues that are the subject of news in every part of the world today. Professor Gill has been invited to deliver a keynote address at the International Defence Seminar, an annual feature of the Defence University’s academic calendar, on 21 August. Prof. Terry Gill is also the Director of the Research Program ‘Role of Law in Armed Conflict and Peace Operations’ within the Amsterdam Centre for International Law (ACIL), and Chairman of the Research Forum LACPO (Law of Armed Conflict & Peace Operations). Prof. Gill is a Board Member of the International Society of Military Law and the Law of War, the Lieber Society & American Society of International Law, the Netherlands Society of International Law, and the International Law Association, where he is Chairman of a Study Group on the Conduct of Hostilities. He is also a member of the Advisory Council on Matters of Public International Law to the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Editor-in-Chief of the Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law and a member of the editorial boards of the Journal Of Conflict and Security Law and the Journal of International Peacekeeping, Prof. Gill has published widely on matters of military law and international humanitarian law.