Professor Raul (Pete) Pedrozo (Captain, USN, Ret.) is the Howard S. Levie Chair on the Law of Armed Conflict and Professor of International Law, U.S. Naval War College, Stockton Center for International Law. He also serves as one of two U.S. representatives to the International Group of Experts participating in the revision of the 1994 San Remo Manual on International Law Applicable to Armed Conflicts at Sea. Prior to assuming the Levie Chair, Captain Pedrozo was the Principal Deputy Staff Judge Advocate, U.S. Indo-Pacific Command. Prior to his retirement from active duty after 34 years of service, he served in numerous positions advising senior military and civilian Defense officials, including as Special Assistant to the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy and senior legal advisor to Commander, U.S. Pacific Command. He has lectured extensively at military and civilian academic institutions and participated in numerous multilateral and bilateral negotiations, including the International Maritime Organization (Chairman of the IMO Working Group responsible for drafting the Guidelines for the Suppression of Illegal Transport of Migrants by Sea adopted by the IMO), Transnational Organized Crime Convention (lead U.S. negotiator for the maritime chapter to the Migrant Smuggling Protocol to the Convention), International Civil Aviation Organization, and US-PRC Military Maritime Consultative Agreement. CAPT Pedrozo has written extensively on maritime security and South China Sea issues and is the co-author to International Maritime Security Law (Brill/Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2013), The Free Sea: The American Fight for Freedom of Navigation (United States Naval Institute, 2018), and the forthcoming, Emerging Technology and the Law of the Sea (Oxford University Press). He has an LLM (International & Comparative Law), Georgetown University Law Center and JD (Law), The Ohio State University College of Law.