Current Chair
Professor Wolff Heintschel von Heinegg is the Charles H. Stockton Professor of International Law at the U.S. Naval War College for 2011-2013.
Past Incumbents
| Term |
Incumbent |
2010-2012
2009-2010 |
Ken Watkins
Derek Jinks |
| 2008-2009 |
Richard J. Grunawalt |
| 2007-2008 |
Michael N. Schmitt |
| 2006-2007 |
Craig Allen |
| 2005-2006 |
Jane Dalton |
| 2003-2004 |
Wolff Heintschel von Heinegg |
| 2002-2003 |
Yoram Dinstein |
| 2001-2001 |
Nicholas Rostow (hired to serve 2001-03; departed early as a Presidential appointee to UN) |
| 2000-2001 |
Ivan Shearer |
| 1999-2000 |
Yoram Dinstein |
| 1998-1999 |
Ruth Wedgwood |
| 1996-1998 |
Leslie C. Green |
| 1995-1996 |
Myron H. Nordquist |
| 1994-1995 |
Robert F. Turner |
| 1993-1994 |
Richard J. Grunawalt |
| 1992-1993 |
George K. Walker |
| 1991-1992 |
Horace B. Robertson, Jr. |
| 1990-1991 |
John H. McNeill |
| 1989-1990 |
Alberto R. Coll |
| 1986-1989 |
Richard J. Grunawalt |
| 1985-1986 |
George Bunn |
| 1984-1985 |
W. Hays Parks |
| 1983-1984 |
George Bunn |
| 1982-1983 |
Jon L. Jacobson |
| 1981-1982 |
Alfred P. Rubin |
| 1980-1981 |
John F. Murphy |
| 1979-1980 |
Hamilton DeSaussure |
| 1977-1979 |
Gordon Christenson |
| 1975-1977 |
Vacant |
| 1974-1975 |
William T. Mallison, Jr. |
| 1972-1974 |
Judge Alwyn V. Freeman |
| 1971-1972 |
Howard S. Levie |
| 1970-1971 |
L. F. E. Goldie |
| 1969-1970 |
Oliver J. Lissitzyn |
| 1968-1969 |
Richard B. Lillich |
| 1967-1968 |
John H. Spencer |
| 1966-1967 |
Dennis M. O'Connor |
| 1965-1966 |
James F. Hogg |
| 1964-1965 |
Vacant |
| 1963-1964 |
Gordon B. Baldwin |
| 1962-1963 |
Carl Q. Christol |
| 1961-1962 |
Neill H. Alford, Jr. |
| 1960-1961 |
William T. Mallison, Jr. |
| 1959-1960 |
Carl M. Franklin |
| 1958-1959 |
Roland J. Stanger |
| 1957-1958 |
Vacant |
| 1956-1957 |
Ralph G. Jones |
| 1955-1956 |
Brunson MacChesney |
| 1954-1955 |
Leo Gross |
| 1953-1954 |
Hans Kelsen |
| 1951-1953 |
Judge Manley O. Hudson |