Open to Buckley Fellows.
On Monday, October 28, the Buckley Institute will host a dinner seminar with U.K. Royal Navy Commodore, head of Navy Legal, and Visiting Yale Professor Ian Park.
Ian Park is a Visiting Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School. He is a Commodore (Rear Admiral lower half) in the U.K. Royal Navy, a barrister, and Head of Navy Legal. Park has served in seven ships and deployed worldwide in support of the Royal Navy’s contribution to defense. He has also deployed as a legal adviser on operations to Afghanistan and, on many occasions, to the Middle East. Park is, or has been, a Visiting Fellow at Harvard Law School, a Hudson Fellow at Oxford University, a Mountbatten Fellow at Cambridge University, a First Sea Lord’s Fellow, and a Freeman of the City of London. He is a graduate and Scholar of St. John’s College, Cambridge; has a doctorate in international law from Balliol College, Oxford; and has lectured at Harvard Law School, Cambridge University, Oxford University, The Academy of Military Sciences, Beijing, Hanoi University, NUS Singapore, and Freiburg University, among other institutions. Park has written or contributed to five books including the monograph
The Right to Life in Armed Conflict (Oxford University Press, 2018) and is a former winner of the Armed Forces Barrister of the Year at the U.K. Bar Awards.
