Jelena Pejic, non-resident Senior Fellow, Lieber Institute for Law and Warfare, the US Military Academy, Margaret Kotlik, Assistant Professor,the United States Military Academy
Jelena Pejic is a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Lieber Institute for Law and Warfare at the US Military Academy, West Point where she was the Lieber Scholar for 2023. In her earlier career she was Senior Legal Adviser in the Legal Division of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Senior Program Coordinator in the New York office of Human Rights First, and a lecturer in international law at Belgrade University Law School. She has written and presented extensively on a range of legal and practical challenges arising in international humanitarian law, as well as in international criminal and human rights law. She is currently a Member of the Board of Editors at Just Security and serves on the Board of the Belgrade Center for Human Rights.
Captain Margaret Kotlik is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Law at the United States Military Academy and a Judge Advocate in the U.S. Army. She is a Military Fellow for the Lieber Institute for Law and Warfare at West Point, where she teaches constitutional and military law. Captain Kotlik holds a J.D. from SMU Dedman School of Law in Dallas, Texas, and a Bachelor of Science from Southern Methodist University.