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Dr Tugba Basaran is a Director of the Centre on the Study of Global Human Movement, Convenor of the Refugee Hub and a Fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre.

Marc Weller holds the Chair of International Law and International Constitutional Studies in the University of Cambridge. He is the former Director and a Fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law. He has served as United Nations Senior Mediation Expert and is a highly experienced international dispute settlement professional. He is certified and accredited as a professional mediator and was elected a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. He is a barrister (Middle Temple) and Associate Tenant at Doughty Street Chambers, London. Marc holds Doctorates in International Law and International Relations, in Law, and in Economic and Social Sciences from the Universities of Cambridge, Frankfurt and Hamburg respectively, and Masters’ degrees from the Fletcher School and the University of Cambridge. He also trained in advanced negotiation and dispute settlement at Harvard Law School and the Kennedy School of Government.

Lorand Bartels is Professor of International Law in the Faculty of Law and a fellow of Trinity Hall and the Lauterpacht Centre at the University of Cambridge. He is Chair of the Trade and Agriculture Commission (TAC) and was appointed an MBE in the 2022 Queen’s New Year Honours List for services to UK trade policy.

Dr Stefan Theil is the John Thornley Fellow in Law at Sidney Sussex College. He completed his first degree in law at the University of Bayreuth (2011) in Germany. After brief stints working for a commercial law firm in Munich and for the Research Services of the German Bundestag in Berlin, Stefan earned an LLM from University College London (2013). Inspired to pursue a career in academia, he completed his doctoral work at the University of Cambridge (2018) and was the inaugural Research Fellow in Civil and Political Rights at Bonavero Institute, University of Oxford (2017-2021). Stefan is a Fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre.

Fellows of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law were a part of key pledges at the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) 26^th Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland, including a commitment to scale-up climate law & governance capacity worldwide tenfold by 2024.

In memoriam: HE Judge James Crawford AC SC FBA

A sketch written by Judge Crawford in 2012 to describe how he and Martti Koskenniemi came to agree upon a cover for the Cambridge Companion to International Law.

Professor Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger is an Affiliated Fellow of the Centre, and Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professor in the University of Cambridge with the Bennett Institute for Public Policy, the Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resources Governance (C-EENRG) and other partners. She also serves as Senior Director of the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law (CISDL) in Montreal, Canada; Executive Secretary of the Climate Law and Governance Initiative (CLGI) with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Bonn, Germany; and a Full Professor of International Law for the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Canada. She is Law Fellow and Director of Studies for the LLM/MCL at Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge; and laureate of the Justitia Fundamentum Regnorum Award (2016) and the Weeramantry International Justice Award (2020), among other distinctions.

Jason Sharman is the Sir Patrick Sheehy Professor of International Relations in the Department of Politics and International Studies at Cambridge. He received his PhD in political science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1999, and his undergraduate degree in history and politics from the University of Western Australia. Previously, Jason worked at American University in Bulgaria, the University of Sydney and Griffith University, and he has spent shorter periods as a visitor at St Petersburg State University, Columbia University and the London School of Economics. Jason’s research interests range from the study of international corruption, money laundering and tax havens, to the global politics of the early modern world.

Progress in Global Anti-Corruption Efforts? Not So Fast is written by Jason Sharman, University of Cambridge; Daniel L Nielson, Brigham Young University and Michael G Findley, University of Texas at Austin

Professor Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger¹ is an Affiliated Fellow of the Centre, and Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professor in the University of Cambridge with the Bennett Institute for Public Policy, the Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resources Governance (C-EENRG) and other partners. She also serves as Senior Director of the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law (CISDL) in Montreal, Canada; Executive Secretary of the Climate Law and Governance Initiative (CLGI) with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Bonn, Germany; and a Full Professor of International Law for the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Canada. She is Law Fellow and Director of Studies for the LLM/MCL at Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge; and laureate of the Justitia Fundamentum Regnorum Award (2016) and the Weeramantry International Justice Award (2020), among other distinctions.