David Turns
Senior Lecturer
- David.Turns@fhs.se
- +46 8-55342706
- Department of International and Operational Law
- International Law
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Dr David Turns is a Senior Lecturer in International and Operational Law at the Swedish Defence University (Stockholm), having previously taught at Cranfield University in the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom (2007-2023), the University of Liverpool (1994-2007) and the London School of Economics & Political Science (1990-1994).
In 2002 he was a Visiting Professor at the Institute for International Law and International Relations (University of Vienna, Austria). He served as the President of the UK National Group of the International Society for Military Law and the Law of War (2008-2018) and is a Member of the Society’s Board of Directors as well as an elected Member of the International Institute of Humanitarian Law (IIHL), the International Advisory Board of the Hungarian Yearbook of International Law and European Law and the Editorial Board of the Journal of Conflict & Security Law.
He has lectured on various aspects of international military, humanitarian and operational law as well as international criminal law and public international law more generally for humanitarian aid workers, the British Armed Forces legal advisory services and at the IIHL (San Remo, Italy), the NATO School (Oberammergau, Germany), and the British and Italian Staff Colleges. In 2003 he co-founded the biennial Vienna Courses on International Law for Military Legal Advisers, delivered in partnership with the Austrian Federal Ministry of Defence. He has also collaborated with the International Committee of the Red Cross in delivering seminars and workshops for legal academics, students, government officials, military officers and legal advisers in Kenya, Russia, Canada, Hungary, Israel and China; and has assisted with courses for the Dutch Ministry of Defence in Serbia and Rwanda, as well as delivering the legal component of UK Defence Engagement courses in many other countries around the world (most recently Jordan, Thailand and Brazil).
He has given many academic papers and chaired conference panels in the UK and other countries and is the author of over 60 publications on a variety of topics in public international law.
Latest publications
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A Fine Art of Friendship RevisitedPart of The Character of International Law : A Festschrift for Rob Cryer
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The Law of Armed Conflict (International Humanitarian Law)Part of International Law