The Charles H. Stockton Chair of International Law at the United States Naval War College has its origins in the Naval War College's oldest civilian academic post. The first civilian academic at the College,

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was appointed in 1885 to lecture on international law. Dr.

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of Harvard University gave lectures on the subject in 1894, his death in the midst of the academic program led to the appointment then Commander

Charles Stockton Charles Herbert Stockton (October 13, 1845 – May 31, 1924) was a rear admiral in the United States Navy and the U.S. Navy's first uniformed expert in international law. Stockton served as the President of the Naval War College, and later serv ...

to complete his lectures and to publish them for the use of the Navy. Stockton prepared a new edition in 1898, teaching classes in the subject. In 1901, Professoe

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lectured on international law and recommended that the college appoint Harvard University Law professor

George Grafton Wilson George Grafton Wilson (born in Plainfield, Connecticut on 29 March 1863 – died in Cambridge, Massachusetts on 30 April 1951) was a distinguished professor of International Law during the first half of the 20th century. He served on the faculties ...

as the visiting professor. Wilson lectured annually from 1901 to 1937. From 1946 to 1953, Professor

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of Harvard regularly came from Cambridge to give the College's International Law lectures. On 11 July 1951, the Chief of Naval Personnel approved the formal establishment of a full-time professorship to replace the part-time position. On 6 October 1967, the Secretary of the Navy designated the academic post as the Charles H. Stockton Chair of International Law in honor of Rear Admiral Charles Stockton, President of the Naval War College (1891 and 1898-1900), who had been the US Navy's first uniformed expert in international law. The Stockton Chair was filled by distinguished visiting professors from its establishment until 2014, when the Chairperson of the Stockton Center for International Law was designated as the Stockton Professor. At that time, the Naval War College established the position of Charles H. Stockton Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence, to be held by visiting scholars of the international academic distinction.

List of office-holders

* 1953-1954 Hans Kelsenhttps://dnnlgwick.blob.core.windows.net/portals/0/NWCDepartments/Stockton%20Center%20International%20Law/Stockton%20Chair.pdf?sr=b&si=DNNFileManagerPolicy&sig=cevHH4lhtK4YtpRpCz03YZvBq2rqZv1jtUhdkKrnHVA%3D * 1954-1955 Leo Gross * 1955-1956 Brunson MacChesney * 1956-1957 Ralph G. Jones * 1957-1958 Vacant * 1958-1959 Roland J. Stanger * 1959-1960 Carl M. Franklin * 1960-1961 William T. Mallison, Jr. * 1961-1962 Neill H. Alford, Jr. * 1962-1963 Carl Q. Christol * 1963-1964 Gordon B. Baldwin * 1964-1965 Vacant * 1965-1966 James F. Hogg * 1966-1967 Dennis M. O'Connor * 1967-1968

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* 1968-1969 Richard B. Lillich * 1969-1970 Oliver J. Lissitzyn * 1970-1971 L. F. E. Goldie * 1971-1972

Howard S. Levie Howard Sidney Levie (19 December 1907 – 19 April 2009) was one of America's foremost legal experts on the law of war and the key draftsman of the Korean Armistice Agreement. Early life and education Levie was born in Wolverine, Michigan and gre ...

* 1972-1974 Alwyn V. Freeman * 1974-1975 William T. Mallison, Jr. * 1975-1977 Vacant * 1977-1979

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* 1979-1980

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* 1980-1981 John F. Murphy * 1981-1982 Alfred P. Rubin * 1982-1983 Jon L. Jacobson * 1983-1984 George Bunn * 1984-1985

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* 1985-1986 George Bunn * 1986-1989 Richard J. Grunawalt * 1989-1990 Alberto R. Coll * 1990-1991 John H. McNeill * 1991-1992 Horace B. Robertson, Jr. * 1992-1993 George K. Walker * 1993-1994 Richard J. Grunawalt * 1994-1995

Robert F. Turner Robert F. Turner (born February 14, 1944) was a professor of international law and national security law at the University of Virginia and the co-founder of its Center for National Security Law. Education Turner earned his BA in Government ...

* 1995-1996 Myron H. Nordquist * 1996-1998 Leslie C. Green * 1998-1999

Ruth Wedgwood Ruth Wedgwood (born 1949) is an American lawyer and university professor who holds the Edward B. Burling Chair in International Law and Diplomacy at the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, in Washington, D.C. Fam ...

* 1999-2000 Yoram Dinstein * 2000-2001

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* 2001-2001 Nicholas Rostow * 2002-2003 Yoram Dinstein * 2003-2004 Wolff Heintschel von Heinegg * 2004-2005 Charles Garraway * 2005-2006 Jane Dalton * 2006-2007 Craig H. Allen * 2007-2008

Michael N Schmitt Michael N. Schmitt is an American international law scholar specializing in international humanitarian law, use of force issues, and the international law applicable to cyberspace. He is Professor of Public International Law at the University of ...

* 2008-2009 Richard J. Grunawalt * 2009-2010 Derek Jenks * 2010-2012

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* 2012-201
Wolff Heintschel von Heinegg
* 2014-2018

* 2015-201
Timothy McCormack
(Stockton Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence) * 2018–presen
James Kraska
* 2020–present Michael Schmitt (Stockton Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence)

References

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