Shaping the debate on the future of international law: the London Conference
Monday, 15 April 2024
Sally Langrish, FCDO Legal Adviser and Partner Fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre.
A dilemma for the ICJ - Marc Weller
Monday, 5 February 2024
Marc Weller is Professor of International Law in the University of Cambridge and an Associate Tenant at Doughty Street Chambers.
The Emperor’s Clothes
Friday, 1 December 2023
Dr John Barker is a Fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre and recently retired as Chairman of the Foreign Compensation Commission, UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
Writing international law at the border: A view from Samos Configure
Monday, 27 November 2023
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.
Pirates in the Legal Imagination - Tor Krever
Tuesday, 21 November 2023
Tor Krever joined the University of Cambridge in 2023. He was previously Assistant Professor at the University of Warwick, Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra in Portugal and Visiting Fellow at the Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá, Colombia. He was educated in Australia, the US and UK, completing his PhD in Law at the London School of Economics.
Every War must aim for peace - Marc Weller and Malik Dahlan
Monday, 30 October 2023
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.
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.
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Scrutinising the UK’s post-Brexit Free Trade Agreements - Prof Lorand Bartels MBE
Friday, 10 February 2023
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 July 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.
The War in Ukraine
Friday, 18 March 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.
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 Cover Story: Dialogue of Two Editors
Wednesday, 2 July 2021
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.
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 at Cambridge. She is also Senior Director of the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law, Executive Secretary of the CLGI under UNFCCC, and Full Professor of International Law at the University of Waterloo, Canada.
Could Scotland stage an independence referendum without UK approval? What the law says - Prof Marc Weller
Thursday, 18 February 2021
Marc Weller is Chair of International Law and International Constitutional Studies at Cambridge, former Director of the Lauterpacht Centre, and Senior UN Mediation Expert. He is a barrister and Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators with multiple doctoral degrees and advanced training from Harvard.
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 at Cambridge. His research covers global corruption, money laundering, and tax havens. He co-authored this article with Daniel Nielson (BYU) and Michael Findley (University of Texas).
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 principal of Lindeborg Counsellors at Law, and a Fellow Partner of the Lauterpacht Centre. Formerly INTERPOL's General Counsel, he is author of *The Legal Foundations of INTERPOL* and other works on international police law and remedies.
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 Segger is a Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professor, Senior Director of CISDL, and UNFCCC Climate Law & Governance Executive Secretary. She is also Professor of International Law at Waterloo and recipient of the Weeramantry International Justice Award.
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 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.
Attribution of cyber operations: an international law perspective on the Park Jin Hyok case - Mr Tomohiro Mikanagi
Monday, 13 July 2020
Tomohiro Mikanagi is LCIL Partner Fellow and Deputy Director-General of the International Legal Affairs Bureau (Deputy Legal Advisor), Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan. While he was a Visiting Fellow at the Centre from 2017 to 2019, he co-organized two international workshops titled International Law and Cyber Security and The Future of Multilateralism and published an article Establishing a Military Presence in a Disputed Territory: Interpretation of Article 2(3) and (4) of the UN Charter in International & Comparative Law Quarterly (ICLQ)..
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 Configure
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.
The Law of the Sea - Dr Surabhi Ranganathan
Tuesday, 19 May 2020
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.
The Forgotten Constitution: The UN Friendly Relations Declaration at 50 - Prof Jorge Viñuales
Tuesday, 5 May 2020
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
Access to Covid-19 Treatment and International Intellectual Property Protection - Dr Henning Grosse Ruse-Khan
Tuesday, 28 April 2020
Henning Grosse Ruse-Khan is a University Reader in International and European Intellectual Property Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of King’s College. He is Co-Director of the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law, a Fellow at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, and external researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition in Munich (Germany).
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