George Tyler

George is a Graduate Professional with UNIDIR’s Conventional Weapons Programme, supporting research on conventional arms and ammunition.

He holds a Master of Laws (LL.M.) degree from Harvard Law School, where he focused on public international law and served as a research assistant on projects pertaining to maritime law enforcement, international humanitarian law and targeting cycles, and international criminal law. Prior to those graduate studies, George practised as a corporate lawyer for seven years and earned an LL.M. degree in Commercial Legal Practice. George also holds a BA (Hons.) in History from Trinity College Dublin.

His research interests span the law of armed conflict, the intersection between those laws and disarmament, the threshold between peacetime uses of force and the laws of naval warfare, and the application of international humanitarian law to contemporary conflicts.