Climate change and the advisory function of international courts and tribunals - Professor Jorge E. Viñuales
Tuesday, 28 March 2023
Jorge E. Viñuales is Harold Samuel Professor of Law and Environmental Policy and Fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre, University of Cambridge; Legal Counsel to the Republic of Vanuatu in the referenced matters. The opinions expressed in this piece are strictly in my academic capacity.
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.
Forcing a Referendum on Scottish Independence? - Prof Marc Weller
Monday, 25 July 2022
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.
A cause worthy of more effort: the Committee on the Rights of the Child and the Climate Change decision
Monday, 13 June 2022
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.
Marc Wellerholds 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.
Leading Experts at COP26 from the University of Cambridge and around the world Commit to Scale-Up Climate Law & Governance Capacity Worldwide TENFOLD from 600 to 6,000 by 2024
Tuesday, 14 December 2021
Fellows of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law were a part of key pledges at the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland, including a commitment to scale-up climate law & governance capacity worldwide tenfold by 2024.
The International Law of Prolonged Sieges and Blockades: Gaza as a Case Study - Prof Eyal Benvenisti
Friday, 16 July 2021
Eyal Benvenisti is Whewell Professor of International Law, University of Cambridge, Director of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, C C Ng Fellow, Jesus College, Cambridge, Visiting Professor, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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.
A global pandemic treaty should aim for deep prevention - Professor Jorge E. Viñuales
Thursday, 29 April 2021
Jorge E. Viñuales holds the Harold Samuel Chair at Cambridge and is a Fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre. He is also the Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Distributive Justice newly established by the Institut de Droit International.
Exploring the Role of International Law in Sustainable Natural Resources Management for Development - Prof Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger
Thursday, 18 March 2021
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.
Could Scotland stage an independence referendum without UK approval? What the law says - Prof Marc Weller
Thursday, 18 February 2021
Marc Wellerholds 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.
Progress in Global Anti-Corruption Efforts? Not So Fast - Professor Jason Sharman
Tuesday, 3 November 2020
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
A Red Notice against Trump? - When INTERPOL is asked to intervene against targeted killing - Dr Rutsel Silvestre J Martha
Friday, 4 September 2020
Dr Martha is the principal of Lindeborg Counsellors at Law, a London-based public international law boutique firm, and Fellow Partner of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law. From 2004 to 2008 he was the General Counsel and Director of Legal Affairs of INTERPOL.
His publications on international law include: The Legal Foundations of INTERPOL (Hart Publishing, Oxford, 2010.), “Challenging Acts of INTERPOL in Domestic Courts” In: Challenging Acts of International Organizations Before National Courts, Edited by August Reinisch, OUP, September 2010., and “Remedies Against INTERPOL: role and practice of defense lawyers” Conference European Criminal Bar Association Lyon, 6 October 2007 (online).
Towards an Honourable Future? Bridging the Capacity Chasm to Address Critical Global Challenges and Advance our Sustainable Development Goals - Prof Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger
Monday, 3 August 2020
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.
Exceptions in International Law (OUP, 2020)* - Dr Lorand Bartels & Dr Federica Paddeu (Eds)
Thursday, 23 July 2020
Dr Lorand Bartels is a Reader in International Law in the Faculty of Law, a Fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law and a Fellow of Trinity Hall at the University of Cambridge where he teaches international law, WTO law and EU law.
Dr Federica Paddeu is the John Tiley Fellow in Law at Queens’ College and a Fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law. Her main research interests are international law, the law of state responsibility and the law on the use of force.
The WHO - Destined to Fail?: Political Cooperation and the COVID-19 Pandemic - Prof Eyal Benvenisti
Thursday, 2 July 2020
Eyal Benvenisti is Whewell Professor of International Law, University of Cambridge, Director of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, C C Ng Fellow, Jesus College, Cambridge, Visiting Professor, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Before Drones and Cyber: Re-historicizing the Law of Armed Conflict - Dr Giovanni Mantilla
Tuesday, 23 June 2020
Giovanni Mantilla is University Lecturer in the Department of Politics and International Studies at Cambridge University, and Fellow of Christ’s College and the Lauterpacht Centre.
Dr Surabhi Ranganathan is a University Senior Lecturer in International Law, a Deputy Director of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, and a Fellow and Director of Studies in Law at King's College. She is also a fellow of the Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance (C-EENRG). Her research explores histories and politics of international law, with a current focus on the designation, representations and regulation of global commons, especially the deep seabed.
Deconstructing Parenthood: What makes a "Mother"? - Dr Claire Fenton-Glynn
Tuesday, 12 May 2020
Claire Fenton-Glynn is a University Senior Lecturer in Law at Jesus College, University of Cambridge and a Fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law. Claire's research lies in the field of children’s rights, comparative law and international human rights law.