Toby Hamnett

Toby Hamnett is a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at King’s College London, affiliated with the Defence Studies Department within the School of Security Studies under the Faculty of Social Science & Public Policy. He is a Lieutenant Colonel in the Army Legal Services and a practising solicitor with 24 years of experience in international legal frameworks in armed conflict zones such as Northern Ireland, Iraq, Kosovo, and Afghanistan. His work focuses on legal applications of force, detention, surveillance, and UK regulatory regimes like the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000.

• Education:
• LLM in International Law (University of Nottingham, focusing on Balkan peacekeeping in the 1990s)
• MA in Military Studies (King’s College London, analyzing legal/ethical frameworks at the threshold of armed conflict)

Research interests include ethical and legal frameworks governing the onset of armed conflict, training military personnel in lawful conduct via ethics frameworks (e.g., British Army’s Values and Standards), and assessing war crime impacts across individual to strategic levels. He has prosecutorial experience at the Court Martial for military/civil offences.

No scientific awards or specific publications are listed in the provided text. His advisory/grants narrative includes military legal training programs and conflict zone legal analyses. He is based in the Defence Studies Department, contributing to security policy research.