Stefan McClean

Institution: Bocconi University

Period of stay: 23 September 2024 to 19 September 2025

Contact: stefan.mcclean@phd.unibocconi.it

Profile: 

Stefan is an enrolled barrister and solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand and a PhD student at Bocconi University Milan. In 2024 Stefan was awarded the Hague Diploma from the Hague Academy of International Law. He also holds an LLM with manga cum laude from KU Leuven and an LLB & BA from Victoria University of Wellington.

Research Area:

State Responsibility, Public International Law

Research Title:

Legal consequences arising from a breach to a rule erga omnes

Research Outline:

The research project seeks to examine the nature of obligations owed to the international community as a whole (rules erga omnes) under the framework of the law on state responsibility. In particular, the question focuses the relationship between obligations erga omnes and peremptory norms of international law, and the possible legal obligations arising for third states in the event of a rule breach.

Publications:

S R McClean, 'From Theory to Reality: A Definition for the Termination of Non-International Armed Conflicts' Journal of Conflict and Security Law, Volume 28, Issue 3, pages 533–567.

S R McClean, 'Cooperation within international watercourse law: The development of custom and the creation of river basin organisations' New Zealand Journal of Public and International Law, Volume 19, Issue 1, pages 57-96.

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