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Marc Weller is Professor of International Law and International Constitutional Studies in the University of Cambridge and the Director of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law. He became a member of the Faculty of Law of the University of Cambridge in 1990. From 1997-2000 he was Deputy Director of the Centre of International Studies. He has been Director of Graduate Education in the Department of Politics and International Studies of the University since 2008. Professor Weller holds Masters degrees from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and the University of Cambridge, and Doctorates in Law, in Economic and Social Sciences, and in International Law from the Universities of Frankfurt, Hamburg and Cambridge respectively.
Professor Weller has been trained in complex negotiations at Harvard Law School and the John F. Kennedy School of Government and has extensive experience in international high-level, high-stakes negotiations. He is a fully qualified and accredited mediator and a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.
During 2011/12 he served in the Department of Political Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat in New York. In the role of Senior Mediation Expert, mainly covering in the areas of international and constitutional law, he advised on the transitions in Cote d’Ivoire and Egypt. He supported mediation efforts during the armed conflict in Libya and served on the United Nations pre-planning team for the transition that ensued. He was also a member of the negotiation team that facilitated the transition in Yemen, and drafted the agreement that facilitated the departure from office of the long-serving President. He was involved in the drafting of a law on transitional justice and the design of a national dialogue process leading to constitutional reform in Yemen. Moreover he served on the United Nations high-level mission seeking to stabilize situation in the Maldives after a sudden change in government early in 2012 and he contributed to the mediation efforts of the Joint Special Envoy for Syria, Kofi Annan.
Professor Weller also served as an advisor in the Doha negotiations on a peaceful settlement of the Darfur crisis, leading to the adoption of the Doha Document on Peace in Darfur which is now being implemented. He also supported the final phase of the transition in Somalia, including planning for the completion of the constitutional process and other key tasks, and he advised on constitutional reform in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Professor Weller has been Director of Studies at the Hague Academy for International Law and Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Law of the University of Paris and at other institutions. He is the author, editor or co-editor of some 25 books and a large number of academic journal articles and book chapters. For further information, including a list of his major publications, please see Professor Weller's Profile on the Faculty of Law website.
Faculty of Law profile » Email: mw148@cam.ac.uk
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