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97 Int'l L. Stud. Ser. US Naval War Col. 1 (2021)

handle is hein.intyb/ilsusnwc0097 and id is 1 raw text is: International Law Studies Sailor-Scholar: Remembering Rear Admiral Horace B. Robertson Jr., JAGC, U.S. Navy (Ret.) This volume is dedicated to the memoy of Rear Admiral Horace B. Robertson Jr., JAGC, U.S. Navy (Ret.) November 13, 1923 - November 19, 2020 A s a sailor and scholar, Rear Admiral Horace B. Robertson Jr. had an immeasurable impact on naval operations and policy, public international law, the law of the sea, the law of armed conflict and all those who knew him as a friend and colleague during his long association with the Naval War College. He served thirty-one years in the Navy as a warfighter and judge advocate, and another four decades as a professor, international law expert and author. Admiral Robertson dedicated his career and life to shaping, teaching and practicing public international law. A North Carolina native, Admiral Robertson attended Davidson College for two years and then matriculated at the U.S. Naval Academy in 1942, graduating in 1945. Admiral Robertson first joined the fleet as a Surface War- fare Officer, serving on destroyers, amphibious ships and an anti-submarine warfare staff. In 1950, the Navy selected Admiral Robertson for post-grad- uate studies in law at Georgetown University Law Center, where he served as editor-in-chief of the Georgetown LawJournal and graduated first in his class in 1953. He then rejoined the fleet and served a final line tour as the com- manding officer of an amphibious landing ship. Admiral Robertson went on to serve as a judge advocate in the U.S. Navy's Judge Advocate General's Corps for twenty-one years. His assign- ments included service in the Office of the Judge Advocate General; on the staffs of the Fifth Naval District in Norfolk, Virginia, and Commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet; as Assistant Chief of Staff for Legal Affairs to the Commander, U.S. Naval Forces, Philippines; Special Counsel to the Secretary of the Navy; and Special Counsel to the Chief of Naval Operations. During this period, he also earned a Master's Degree in International Studies from The George 1 2029