Gwenaël Guyon
President
Gwenaël Guyon is an associate professor in Law at the French Military Academy Saint-Cyr Coëtquidan, on secondment from the University Paris Cité. He is Director of the Law and Ethics Department at CReC Saint-Cyr (the French Army’s research center). He studied at the University of Rennes (PhD), Cardiff University and the University of Glasgow.
He teaches courses on comparative military justice and comparative history of military justice to French and international cadets and has been guest lecturer at Stellenbosch University and Sorbonne Abu Dhabi. His research is currently focused on military justice in wartime and on the history of French military justice.
In 2021, he founded the International Military Justice Forum.
He is a Research Fellow at Stellenbosch University and an International Research Fellow at the National Institute of Military Justice in Washington D.C.
Evert Kleynhans
Vice-President
Evert Kleynhans is associate professor within the Department of Military History of the Faculty of Military Science at Stellenbosch University.
His doctorate focused on the Axis and Allied maritime operations around southern Africa during the Second World War – an area that previously received scant historical attention. His main historical interests revolve around the South African participation in both world wars, counterinsurgency warfare in Africa, access to military archives, as well as the broader influence of geography on warfare.
He is currently researching on South African military justice during the First World War.
Scientific committee
Stéphane Baudens
Delegate for legal history in francophone countries
Stéphane Baudens is associate professor in law at the French Military Academy Saint-Cyr Coëtquidan. He is the head of the CReC Saint-Cyr.
His research interests are focused on Military law, Constitutional law, and Homeland Security. He is the Director of the Chair « Homeland Security » at CReC Saint-Cyr.
Raffaella Bianchi Riva
Delegate for Legal History
Raffaella Bianchi Riva is an Associate Professor of Legal History at the Department of Italian and Supranational Public Law, University of Milan, where she currently teaches courses on the History of Criminal Justice, the History of the Legal Profession, and Contemporary Legal History.
She is a former Visiting Scholar Fellow at the Robbins Collection, Law School, University of California, Berkeley.
Her main research fields are the history of the legal profession and legal ethics, the relationship between law and ethics, the history of criminal justice, and the interaction between law, politics, and society.
In recent years, she has been researching judicial proceedings concerning collaborators in post-war Italy, within the broader field of transitional justice.
Alison Duxbury
Delegate for Commonwealth
Alison Duxbury is a Professor at Melbourne Law School and the President of the Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law. She is also a Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Conflict and Security Law and a member of the Australian National International Humanitarian Law Committee. Alison has previously held the positions of Deputy Dean and Interim Dean of Melbourne Law School, as well as Chair of the International Board of the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative and Associate Director of the Asia Pacific Centre for Military Law.
Alison’s major teaching and research interests are in the fields of international law, including international humanitarian law, human rights law, and international institutional law. Her publications include The Participation of States in International Organisations: The Role of Human Rights and Democracy (Cambridge, 2011), a co-authored book, Can ASEAN Take Human Rights Seriously? (Cambridge, 2019) and two co-edited collections, Military Justice in the Modern Age (Cambridge, 2016) and Australia and the International Legal System: From Empire to the Contemporary World (Hart, 2025).
Mario Ferreira Monte
Delegate for Portuguese-speaking countries
Mário Ferreira Monte has a Bachelor’s degree, Master’s degree and Doctorate in Law, with aggregation, Full Professor of Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure and Criminology, at the University of Minho. He is coordinator of the Research Group in Criminal Justice and Criminology at the Center of Research in Justice and governance, coordinator of the Lusofonia Law Research Network, Director of the Master’s in Judicial Law, Director of the Doctorate in Law at the School of Law of the University of Minho, President of the School Council of the School of Law of the University of Minho, President of the Disciplinary Council of the University of Minho.
Michelle Nel
Delegate for Commonwealth
Lt Col (Prof) Michelle Nel, BLC, LLB (Pret) and LLM, LLD (Unisa), is Vice Dean of Social Impact and Personnel and an associate professor in Criminal and Military law at the Faculty of Military Science, Stellenbosch University. She joined the Defence Legal Services Division in 1996 as a prosecutor and was appointed as a lecturer in the Department of Mercantile and Public Law (Mil) of the Faculty of Military Science of Stellenbosch University in 2002. She was admitted as advocate to the High Court in 2005 and completed her Doctor of Laws in 2012, titled ‘Sentencing Practice in Military Courts’. She serves as part-time researcher in the Security Institute for Governance and Leadership in Africa’s (SIGLA) maritime governance hub. Her areas of research include International Law, Human Rights, Military Law and Maritime Security.
Frank Rosenblatt
Delegate for North America
Franklin D. Rosenblatt is an Associate Professor of Law at Mississippi Christian University School of Law in Jackson, Mississippi, USA. He is the President of the National Institute of Military Justice, a U.S. civil society organization devoted to improving the military justice system and the public understanding of the topic. Frank is a retired Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Army JAG Corps; a Special Master for terrorism cases with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia; Chair of the Military Justice committee of the International Society for Military Law and the Law of War; a court of appeals judge for the Mississippi Army National Guard; and Of Counsel at Cave & Freeburg LLP. He has personally defended several high-stakes courts-martial, including service as lead military counsel for Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl in the most publicized court-martial in U.S. history. He is the author of numerous books and articles on military justice; recently co-founded an international journal, Forces Law Review; and is frequently called upon to comment to the media on military law issues.
Young researchers board
Anna La Grange
Young delegate for military history
Anna La Grange is a DFG Military Cultures of Violence research group member and a PhD candidate at the University of Potsdam’s Global History chair. Her research critically examines excessive violence by white South African troops during the first half of the twentieth century from a postcolonial and international law perspective. La Grange has published several articles and contributed book chapters in various international contexts. She has secured funding from several organisations to support her research, including the DFG, Erasmus+, EDUC, and the DAAD. She has participated in conferences, colloquiums, workshops, and seminars in Germany, England, Cyprus, South Africa, France, and Poland. She is also co-editing a volume exploring military encounters between Italy and South Africa in the twentieth century with Prof. Evert Kleynhans and Dr. Mariella Terzoli.
Mariella Terzoli
Young delegate for military history
Dr. Mariella Terzoli earned her PhD in contemporary history in 2023 at the University of Milan in cotutelle with the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. Her research focused on Italians who fought in Indochina within the French Foreign Legion (1946-1956), from enlistment to the end of their contracts. She subsequently began a one-year postdoc at the University of Rome “La Sapienza” on the production and circulation of trade guns from Europe to Central Africa in the nineteenth century. She has recently begun a postdoctoral fellowship at the Institut d’études avancées de Paris within the ERC Advanced Grant ‘The Global War on Civilians, 1905-1945’. She investigates the interwar development of air strategies and, in parallel, the links between the Allies’ bombardment and Fascist Italy’s home front during the Second World War.
Guillaume Pinet
Young delegate for military history
Guillaume Pinet is an Adjunct Professor at the History Department, University of Quebec in Montreal. He earned a doctorate in modern history from the Centre for Advanced Studies in the Renaissance, University of Tours. His research focuses on the relationship between military elites and the State: Témoigner de la guerre à la Renaissance. Pratiques sociales, culturelles et politiques des mémorialistes militaires français (c.1495-c.1625), Villeneuve-d’Ascq, Presses universitaires du Septentrion, 2026. He is also Coordinator of the Groupe de Recherche en Histoire de la Guerre (GRHG), Member of the Steering Committee of the UQAM Chair in the History of War, and Editorial Secretary of the journal Bellica. War, History, and Societies.
