Howard Sidney Levie (19 December 1907 – 19 April 2009) was one of America's foremost legal experts on the law of war and the key draftsman of the Korean Armistice Agreement.
It was also during this tenure that he spent a sabbatical year at the Naval War College as the Charles H. Stockton Professor of International Law.
In October 1994, his enormous contribution to the College was formally recognized with the establishment of the Howard S. Levie Military Chair of Operational Law.
It concluded, "The impact of [his] enormous body of work on the thinking of domestic and international policy makers, military commanders and scholars cannot be overstated."
With respect to the development and articulation of the law of war, Professor Howard Levie is just such an individual.Levie died in April 2009, at the age of 101, in Portsmouth, Rhode Island.