Law of Armed Conflict: An Operational Approach, Second Edition

Professor Schoettler is a retired U.S. Army officer. He served 30 years in the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General’s Corps on active duty and in the Reserves. For many years, he was assigned to the International and Operational Law Division of the U.S. Army’s Office of the Judge Advocate General, where he was Assistant Chief. Professor Schoettler completed his military career as Deputy Counsel and Staff Judge Advocate in the Defense Prisoner of WarMissing Personnel Office (now Defense POWMIA Accounting Office). Since 2006, Professor Schoettler has taught courses in the Law of War (International Humanitarian Law) at the Georgetown University Law Center. Professor Schoettler is a co-author of THE WAR ON TERROR AND THE LAWS OF WAR: A MILITARY PERSPECTIVE published by Oxford University Press. Most recently, he published an article on the principle of precautions with Professor Geoffrey Corn in the U.S. Army’s Military Law Review (G. Corn & J. Schoettler, emTargeting and Civilian Risk Mitigation: The Essential Role of Precautionary Measuresem, 223 MIL. L. REV 785 (2015)). In addition to his academic and military activities, Professor Schoettler is Deputy General Counsel and Director, Corporate Compliance for a nuclear energy company in the Washington, D.C. area.