Welcome Guest Blogger John Dehn

Opinio Juris is pleased to welcome for an extended guest-blogging stint our friend and frequent contributor, John Dehn.  John holds the rank of Major in the U.S. Army and currently serves as Senior Fellow at the Center for the Rule of Law at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.  John has taught international law, constitutional law and military law at West Point for several years, and is currently completing his JSD at Columbia Law School.  John brings a wealth of real-life experience to contemporary problems in international humanitarian law, problems which he also tackles in his scholarship.  He has written extensively on presidential war powers and the historical origins of the laws of war.  His SSRN page is here.  We welcome John for the next two weeks and look forward to a great conversation!