Steven J. Barela, assistant professor at the University of Geneva in the Global Studies Institute and member of the Law Faculty, specializes in interdisciplinarity. He has published a monograph on counterterrorism with Routledge in 2014 and an edited volume on armed drones with Ashgate in 2015. For an overview and excerpts of these books and other work, visit Legitimacy as a Target.

Avery Plaw, professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, specializes in political theory and international relations, with a particular focus on strategic studies. He published Targeting Terrorists: A License to Kill? in 2008 and The Drone Debate: A Primer on the U.S. Use of Unmanned Aircraft Outside Conventional Battlefields with co-authors Matt Fricker and Carlos Colon in 2015.