Author: Matthew Stubbs

Dale Stephens is Professor of the Faculty of the Adelaide Law School at the University of Adelaide and a Captain in the Royal Australian Navy Reserve who spent over 20 years as Permanent Officer in the Royal Australian Navy before taking up his appointment at Adelaide Law School. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law. He has occupied numerous staff officer positions throughout his career in the Australian Defence Force (ADF), including Fleet Legal Officer, Command Legal Officer (Naval Training Command), Chief Legal Officer Strategic Operations Command, Director of Operational and International Law, Deputy Director of the Asia-Pacific Centre for Military Law (a joint venture with Melbourne University Law School), Director Navy Legal and Director of the Military Law Centre. At the Adelaide Law School, he is Director of the Research Unit on Military Law and Ethics. He has deployed twice to East Timor (INTERFET & UNTAET) and twice to Iraq (Baghdad) in Senior Legal Officer positions and has provided extensive advice to government at the strategic level. In 2022, he was awarded the Red Cross Distinguished Service Award. He holds Masters and Doctorate degrees in law from Harvard Law School Matthew Stubbs is Professor of the Faculty of the Adelaide Law School at the University of Adelaide, where he serves as Editor in Chief of the Adelaide Law Review and Program Director of Postgraduate Coursework Programs and Military Law Programs. Professor Stubbs is involved with professional bodies in the law and academia and is Member and Former Chair of the Space Law Committee and Human Rights Committee of the Law Society of South Australia and Member of the Law Council of Australia”s National Human Rights Committee. Matthew was awarded the Law Society of South Australia President”s Medal in 2023. Samuel White is a Senior Lecturer of the faculty of the Adelaide Law School at the University of Adelaide. He is concurrently Visiting Fellow at the Australian Defence Force Academy and holds positions as Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of New England. In 2024, he was made Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the first Army Visiting Fellow at the Australian War Memorial. Samuel has also served as both a Royal Australian Infantry Corps and an Australian Army Legal Corps officer in a variety of tactical, operational, and strategic level postings. His military experiences focused his doctoral studies, which addressed the constitutional ambit and limitations of responding to foreign interference (both traditional and modern forms) via military responses.