Support and Funding
The Woomera Manual does not seek endorsement by individual States. It is funded through academic institutions, principally the four founding institutions:
These universities have been awarded certain research grants associated with this project and are applying for others. The grants do not presuppose particular outcomes in respect of the content of the Woomera Manual and no endorsement of the content of The Manual by the relevant government funding agencies can be implied from the awarding of a grant.
None of the participants in The Woomera Manual receives any remuneration for their efforts in drafting The Manual. Many of them are funded by their institutions to participate in the project, but such support is not to be interpreted as endorsement of the legal positions taken in The Manual.
Founding institutions
The founding leaders of The Woomera Manual are:
- Professor Dale Stephens (The University of Adelaide, Adelaide Law School)
- Professor Jack Beard (University of Nebraska, College of Law)
- Mr Duncan Blake (UNSW Canberra)
- Prof Aurel Sari (University of Exeter)
Current partners
- American Society of International Law
- Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law, ANZSIL
- Emory University
- International Society for Military Law and the Law of War
- Lieber Institute at the United States Military Academy at West Point
- NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence
- Royal Netherlands Air Force
- St John's University School of Law
- Union of Concerned Scientists
- University of Sydney
- US Air Force Academy
- US Naval War College
- Xiamen University
