DIILS is pleased to announce that Ms. Carolyn Leonard-Cho was recently promoted as our Maritime Program Director. Prior to the promotion, Ms. Leonard-Cho worked as an Institutional Capacity Building (ICB) Attorney since August 2019. As Maritime Program Director, Ms. Leonard-Cho serves as a subject matter expert on issues of international maritime operational law, the law of the sea, and maritime governance, and manages DIILS maritime ICB programs and related training and education activities. Continue reading
CAPT Ian Wexler, the Director of the Defense Institute of International Legal Studies (DIILS), presents Command Coins and Letters of Appreciation to staff members of Navy Medicine Readiness Training Command New England for their support to DIILS during the COVID-19 global pandemic. The Navy medical team support allowed DIILS to be the only Department of Defense International Military Education and Training Schoolhouse to be fully operational in 2020. Continue reading
The Defense Institute of International Legal Studies (DIILS) is recruiting a supervisory attorney (international) position as an Operations Director at Naval Station Newport, RI.
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DIILS recently conducted a 3-day virtual maritime ICB engagement with the Bahrain Coast Guard (BCG). It was the first formal meeting with DIILS since a pre-COVID visit in December 2019 which introduced the BCG to the DIILS mission, function, and methods. Joined by personnel from U.S. Naval Forces Central Command, U.S. Continue reading
DIILS conducted a virtual institution capacity building (ICB) engagement with the Bulgarian Navy and Bulgarian Ministry of Defense in February. This was DIILS’s first formal ICB engagement with Bulgaria, and marks the beginning of an ICB program intended to support Read More
DIILS recently graduated 15 students from our Military Justice Resident Course. Countries represented were Egypt, Kenya, Lithuania, Slovak Republic, Moldova, Mongolia, Republic of North Macedonia, Nigeria, Nepal, Philippines, Sierra Leone, Ukraine, Burkina Faso, and Read More
DSCA Director, Ms. Heidi Grant, and DSCA Senior Enlisted Advisor, CMSgt Daniel Simpson, visit DIILS and meet with DIILS staff and international participants in our Military Justice resident course. Read More
DIILS is pleased to announce that Ms. Carolyn Leonard-Cho was recently promoted as our Maritime Program Director. Prior to the promotion, Ms. Read More
“An International Public Health and Virus Surveillance Network for National Security,” is the title of a paper by Dr. Deon Canyon, Dr. Sebastian Kevany and retired Rear Adm. Michael S. Baker for Security Nexus. Read More
6 May 2021 – The NESA Center held a roundtable discussion with the Armenian Ambassador to the United States, His Excellency Varuzhan Nersesyan. H.E. Varuzhan Nersesyan has served as the Ambassador to the United States since November 2018. Read More
The Defense Institute of International Legal Studies - DIILS - is a Defense Department organization that plans and executes professional legal education and international engagement focused on human rights, international humanitarian law, and the law of armed conflict. DIILS is one of several Defense resources that support the conduct of U.S. foreign policy through security cooperation.
