LJ Howard

Major Lawrence Joseph Howard, CD (Ret'd) currently guest lectures in public international law at Yangzhou University School of Law (China). Joe previously consulted to the United Nations' Department of Peacekeeping Operations, Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and Office of Internal and Oversight Services, and to the United States' Defense Security Cooperation Agency, in Africa, Asia, Europe and UN Headquarters. He also served as a Canadian military officer in Bosnia, Democratic Republic of the Congo and Sudan with NATO and the Standing High Readiness Brigade for UN Operations, and at Canada's National Defence Headquarters' J-3 International. He is a former CPA.

A PhD (public international law, China U/Political Science and Law, Beijing) follows an LL.M. (Adv., U/Leiden) and MA (international studies and diplomacy, School of Oriental and African Studies, U/London), with professional development at NATO's Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence (Law of Cyberwarfare), US Naval Post Graduate School (Defense Decision Making) and UN OCHA (Staff).

Research interests concern the politico-legal chemistry between public international law (principally UN Charter law, law of armed conflict, state responsibility, international institutional law, treaty and diplomatic law), geopolitics and civil-military relations, at operational and academic levels.