Dr Rob McLaughlin is Professor of Military and Security Law, and Director of the Australian Centre for the Study of Armed Conflict and Society, at UNSW Canberra (Australian Defence Force Academy). Prior to this he served for more than twenty years in the Royal Australian Navy as a Seaman and Legal officer, then as the Head of the UNODC Maritime Crime Program (2012–14), and as an Associate Professor in the College of Law at Australian National University (2012–17).