Dr Carrie McDougall is a Senior Lecturer at Melbourne Law School at the University of Melbourne, engaged in the teaching and research of the jus ad bellum, international criminal law and international humanitarian law. She re-joined the Law School after nearly a decade with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, serving first as Assistant Director of the International Law Section, and then as Legal Adviser at Australia’s Mission to the United Nations in New York. In these roles she provided advice to the Australian Government on a wide range of issues critical to Australia’s national security.