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Magdalene College

B.A., LL.B. (Hons)(Sydney), LL.M., Ph.D. (Cantab.)

University Senior Lecturer; Deputy Director, Lauterpacht Centre for International Law

 

UNIVERSITY AND COLLEGE APPOINTMENTS

Faculty teaching positions

Affiliated Lecturer in Law, University of Cambridge, 1999-2000

University Assistant Lecturer in Law, University of Cambridge, 2000-2004

University Lecturer in Law, University of Cambridge, 2004-2008

University Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Cambridge,  2008-

Faculty administrative positions

Academic Secretary of the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, 2005-2007

Member, Degree Committee of the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, 2012–

Other university positions

Fellow, Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge, 2000-

Deputy Director, Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge, 2003-

Member, Committee of Management, Centre of International Studies, University of Cambridge, 2005-2008; Member, Advisory Committee, Centre of International Studies, University of Cambridge, 2008-

Member, Committee of Management, Centre of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, University of Cambridge, 2006-2009

Member, Committee of Management, Centre of Latin American Studies, University of Cambridge, 2006-2011

Elector to Whewell Scholarships in International Law, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, 2008-

College positions

Fellow and College Lecturer in Law, Magdalene College, Cambridge, 2000-

Director of Studies in Law (LL.M.), Magdalene College, Cambridge, 2002-

Director of Studies in Law (Tripos), Magdalene College, Cambridge, 2003-2004, Michaelmas 2008

Dean, Magdalene College, Cambridge, 2008-

Member, Development Committee, Magdalene College, Cambridge, 2006-2007

Member, Finance and General Purposes Committee, Magdalene College, Cambridge, 2010-

Rooms Tutor, Magdalene College, Cambridge, 2003-2004

Senior Treasurer, Amalgamated Clubs Committee, Magdalene College, Cambridge, 2003-2004, 2007-2008

Senior Treasurer, May Ball Committee, Magdalene College, Cambridge, 2008-2009

Director of Studies in Law, Clare Hall, Cambridge, 2003-2011

 

VISITING PROFESSORSHIPS

Visiting Professor, Department of Legal Studies, Central European University, Budapest, 2009-

 

TEACHING

Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge

Human Rights, Tripos Part II (third year undergraduate) seminar paper, 1997-1998, 1999-2000

International Law, Tripos Part IB (second year undergraduate) paper, 2000-2004, 2006-2011, 2012-

Foundations of International Law, LL.M. paper, 2000-2001

International Human Rights Law, LL.M. paper, 2000-2003

International Criminal Law, LL.M. paper, 2001-2004, 2005-2011, 2012-

Law of Armed Conflict, Use of Force and Peacekeeping, LL.M. paper, 2008-2011

Cambridge colleges

Supervisor (small group teacher) in International Law, Christ’s College, Cambridge, 1998-2001, Lent Term 2003; Churchill College, Cambridge, 1999-2000; Clare College, Cambridge, 1999-2000; Emmanuel College, Cambridge, 1999-2000, 2006-2011; Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, 1999-2000;  Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, 2000-2004; King’s College, Cambridge, 1998-2000; Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, 1999-2000; Magdalene College, Cambridge, 2000-2004, 2005-2011, 2012-; Newnham College, Cambridge, 1998-2000; Queens’ College, Cambridge, 1999-2000; St Catharine’s College, Cambridge, 2003-2004; St Edmund's College, Cambridge 2012-; Trinity Hall, Cambridge, 1999-2000

Supervisor in Tort, Magdalene College, Cambridge, 2000-2004, 2005-2011

Other teaching

Lauterpacht Centre for International Law

Lecturer, UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office International Law Course, 2003-2009 (international criminal law, 2003-2009; international law and UK law, 2003; sources of international law, 2004, 2005)

Lecturer, Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs International Law Course, 2009 (international criminal law)

Other universities

Lecturer and examiner (full course), LL.M. Introduction to Public International Law module, Central European University, Budapest, 2009, 2011-

Lecturer and examiner (full course),  LL.M. International Law and the ‘War on Terror’ module, Central European University, Budapest, 2011-

Guest lecturer and examiner, LL.M. International Human Rights Law module, University of Strathclyde, 2004-2007

Lecturer, tutor and examiner (full course), LL.B. Public International Law module, Anglia Polytechnic University, Chelmsford, 1998-1999

Non-university institutions

Lecturer, United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law, 2011-  (three lectures to date, http://untreaty.un.org/cod/avl/faculty/OKeefe.html: ‘The Concept of an “International Crime”’; ‘The Rise of Individual Criminal Responsibility under International Law’; ‘Self-Determination, Independence and Secession’)

Lecturer, International Criminal Law component, United Nations International Law Fellowship Programme, The Hague, 2009, 2011

Director of Studies (anglophone), Summer Programme in Public International Law, Hague Academy of International Law, 2008

Lecturer, International Protection of Cultural Property, Seminar for Advanced Studies in Public and Private International Law for Professionals, 4th session, Hague Academy of International Law, 2008

 

EXTERNAL EXAMINING, ETC

External examiner, examination and coursework, LL.B. (Public International Law, Advanced International Law, International Law and Problems of Contemporary World Order), LL.M. (Foundations of International Law, Settlement of International Disputes) and M. Sc. in Legal & Political Thought (Fundamentals of International Law), School of Law, University of Glasgow, 2008-

External examiner, examination and coursework, LL.B. (Art Law, Human Rights and English Law, International Law, Legal Aspects of Contemporary International Problems) and LL.M. (Constitutional Law of the European Union, Diplomatic Law, International Criminal Law, International Economic Regulation, International Law of the Sea, Law and Development, Law of Armed Conflict, Law of International Organizations, Legal Aspects of Contemporary International Problems, Public International Law), Kent Law School, University of Kent at Canterbury and University of Kent at Brussels, 2010-

Deputy Chief Examiner, International Criminal Law, LL.M./Postgraduate Diploma in Laws/Postgraduate Certificate in Laws, University of London International Academy, 2012–

Academic Reviewer, draft course guide, LL.M. International Criminal Law course, University of London International Programmes, 2011

External examiner, occasional M.Phil. and D. Phil. theses, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford

External examiner, occasional M.A., LL.M. and S.J.D. theses, Central European University, Budapest

External examiner, Ph.D. theses, Department of International Law, Faculty of Law, University of Valencia, 2010; Sydney Law School, University of Sydney, 2010; Faculty of Law, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona), 2012

 

APPOINTMENT TO PUBLIC BODIES

Member and Co-Rapporteur, African Union-European Union Technical Ad hoc Expert Group on the Principle of Universal Jurisdiction, 2009

 

EVIDENCE TO PUBLIC BODIES

Personal invitation

Oral and written evidence to House of Commons Select Committee on Culture, Media and Sport on Draft Cultural Property (Armed Conflicts) Bill: see House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee, Draft Cultural Property (Armed Conflicts) Bill. Ninth Report of Session 2007-08, HC 693 (London: TSO, 2008) (recommendations accepted by Committee); Department for Culture, Media and Sport, Government Response to the Culture, Media and Sport Committee Reports on the Draft Heritage Protection Bill and the Draft Cultural Property (Armed Conflicts) Bill, October 2008, Cm 7472 (recommendations either accepted or under consideration by Government)

Open invitation

Written submission to Iraq (‘Chilcot’) Inquiry on UK’s legal basis for military action in Iraq, 5 September 2010 (http://www.law.cam.ac.uk/faculty-resources/summary/submission-to-iraq-chilcot-inquiry-okeefe/7820)

 

COMMISSIONED REPORTS FOR PUBLIC BODIES

National Implementation of the Penal Provisions of Chapter 4 of the Second Protocol of 26 March 1999 to the Hague Convention of 1954 for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict, expert report prepared for UNESCO, UNESCO doc. CLT/CIH/MCO/2002/PI/H/1, 29 March 2002

 

APPOINTMENTS TO JOURNALS, MONOGRAPH SERIES, ETC

Member, Conseil scientifique, Revue Belge de Droit International, 2004-

Member, Editorial Review Board, Human Rights & Human Welfare (University of Denver electronic journal), 2004-

Member, Peer Review Board, German Yearbook of International Law, 2010-

Member, Peer Review Board, Cambridge Journal of International and Comparative Law, 2011-

Member, Advisory Board, Journal of the Philosophy of International Law (University of Manchester electronic journal), 2012-

Member, Advisory Board, Oxford University Press Cultural Heritage Law and Policy monograph series, 2012–

 

OTHER PROFESSIONAL INVOLVEMENT

Member, International Law Association (ILA) Study Group on the Use of Private Law Principles for the Development of International Law, 2010-

Secrétaire-rédacteur, Institut de droit international, Vancouver session, August 2001; Bruges session, August-September 2003

Associate Research Member, Centre de recherches Versailles Saint-Quentin Institutions Publiques, Faculté de droit et de science politique, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France, 2008-

Member, search committee for three faculty positions, Department of Legal Studies, Central European University, Budapest, 2012

Member, Advisory Board and competition jury, Hague International Criminal Court Trial Competition, 2007

Member, Advisory Committee, Cambridge Post-Conflict and Post-Crisis Group, 2009-

Judge, Concours Charles Rousseau (francophone international law mooting competition), Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, 2001

Subject advisor on international law, Development Partnerships in Higher Education (DelPHE) programme and England-Africa Partnerships (EAP) programme, British Council, 2006-

Occasional referee, ESCR First Grants Scheme, Association of South-East Asian Scholars UK research grants competition, Leverhulme Trust Research Project Grant Detailed Applications, Austrian Science Fund research grant applications, National University of Ireland EJ Phelan Fellowship in International Law applications

Regular referee, Junior Research Fellowship applications for Cambridge colleges, 2000-

Coach, University of Cambridge team, Concours René Cassin (francophone international human rights law mooting competition), Strasbourg, France, 2000

Senior Treasurer, International Criminal Court Student Network (ICCSN) (Cambridge branch), 2008-

Regular book proposal/manuscript referee, Cambridge University Press and Oxford University Press, 2000-

 

Occasional manuscript referee, British Yearbook of International Law, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, Current Anthropology, HEI-Editions, International and Comparative Law Quarterly, Journal of International Criminal Justice, Melbourne Journal of International Law, Polity Press, Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice, 2000-

Occasional case commentator, International Law in Domestic Courts (OUP on-line service), 2006-

Interviews for national and international print and broadcast media

 

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS, PUBLIC LECTURES, ETC

‘Customary International Crimes in English Courts’, conference paper presented at International Law Association (British Branch) Spring Conference, University of Durham, 7 April 2001

Expert panel member, Art, Property and Human Rights, Institute of Art and Law Seminar, London, 21 June 2001

‘Admission to the UN and the Dual Role of the Security Council’, public lecture presented at International Law Association (British Branch) Regional Seminar Series, University of Nottingham, 18 October 2002

‘Universal Jurisdiction: A Few Observations’, public lecture presented at Oxford Public International Law Group/International Law Association (British Branch) lecture series, Merton College, Oxford, 24 October 2002

‘The World Heritage Convention: Obligations to States Parties or to the International Community as a Whole?’, conference paper presented at The Legal Tools for World Heritage Conservation, expert workshop organised by UNESCO, Siena, Italy, 11-12 November 2002

Expert panel member, The means at the disposal of the European Union and its member states in national, European, and international law for ensuring the respect of Israel for its commitments with the European Union as well as the international conventions to which it is a party, round-table organised by the European Co-ordinating Committee of NGOs on the Question of Palestine, Brussels, Belgium, 24 October 2003

‘Recourse by the ad hoc Tribunals to general principles of law and to human rights law’, expert panel presentation at Le fonti del diritto internazionale penale: l’esperienza dei Tribunali penali internazionali. Incontro di studio, Istituto di Applicazione Forense E. Redenti, University of Bologna, 12-13 March 2004

‘International law and domestic courts’, expert panel presentation at British Institute of International and Comparative Law Annual Meeting, 10 June 2005

‘The ICJ’s advisory opinion in Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory’, presentation to Annual Meeting of Foreign & Commonwealth Office Inter-Departmental Committee on International Humanitarian Law, London, 31 October 2005

‘The Protection of Cultural Property in Armed Conflict’, guest seminar presented at London School of Economics & Political Science, 10 November 2005

‘The ICJ’s advisory opinion in Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory’, conference paper presented at Palestine and International Law, School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London, 27 November 2005

 

‘The Protection of Cultural Property in Armed Conflict’, guest lecture presented at University of Sussex, 15 February 2006

 

‘The Protection of Cultural Property in Armed Conflict’, public lecture presented at Institute of Advanced Legal  Studies, University of London, 15 February 2007

 

‘The Protection of Cultural Property in Armed Conflict’, public lecture presented at Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, 23 February 2007

 

‘The Protection of Cultural Property in Armed Conflict: Issues of Criminal Responsibility’, guest seminar presented at European University Institute, Florence, 26 February 2008

 

‘The Doctrine of Incorporation Revisited’, conference paper presented at International Law and the English Legal System, British Institute of International and Comparative Law- Society of Legal Scholars Public International Law Group Seventeenth Conference on Theory and International Law, 14 April 2008

 

‘Archaeological Excavations in Occupied Territory under International Humanitarian Law, with reference to the West Bank, including East Jerusalem’, conference paper presented at The Protection of Cultural and Religious Properties in Palestine under International Humanitarian Law, Al-Quds University, East Jerusalem/Abu Dis, 28-29 April 2008

 

‘The ICJ’s opinion on the Wall’, presentation at The Palestine Question in International Law, British Institute of International and Comparative Law, 21 May 2008

 

Speaker and expert panel member, The International Criminal Court: Taking Stock, Chatham House International Law Discussion Group meeting, 12 June 2008

 

‘The Rose Mary’, conference presentation at The Function of Law in the International Community: Celebrating 25 Years of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge, 11-12 July 2008

 

‘Recent developments in international criminal law’, presentation to UK Army Legal Services International Military Law Conference, St Edmund Hall, Oxford, 18 September 2008

 

‘Legal title versus effectivités: competing private law analogies’, conference paper presented at Sir Hersch Lauterpacht. Lawyer of Two Cultures, Embassy of the Republic of Poland in London-Lauterpacht Centre for International Law conference, Embassy of the Republic of Poland, London, 6 November 2008

 

‘Israel/Palestine Sixty Years On’, public lecture presented at Walther-Schücking-Institut für Internationales Recht, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany, 12 November 2008

 

‘Wartime Destruction of Cultural Heritage: Punishment and Reparation under International Law’, conference paper presented at Culture Wars: Heritage and Armed Conflict in the 21st Century, Centre for Research in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Cambridge, 11-13 December 2008

 

‘Wartime Destruction and Plunder of Cultural Property: Issues of State Responsibility’, International Law Association (British Branch) and University College London Faculty of Laws International Law Seminar, 18 March 2009

 

‘Punishment and Reparation for Violations of the Laws of Armed Conflict: Case Study on the Protection of Cultural Property in Armed Conflict’, guest lecture presented at the Université catholique de Louvain, 11 May 2009

 

‘The “Cultural Heritage of All Mankind”: Metaphysics, Ethics and the Positive Laws of War’, seminar presented at Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict, 18 May 2009 (http://www.elac.ox.ac.uk/podcasts/)

 

‘The Protection of Cultural Property in Armed Conflict: Issues of State Responsibility’, conference paper presented at The Interplay between the Law of Treaties and State Responsibility: Forty Years after the Adoption of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest, 23 May 2009

 

Expert discussant, Shipping Interdiction and the Law of the Sea: Pirates, drugs, IUU fishing, migrant smuggling and terror, International Law Association (British Branch) and University College London Faculty of Laws International Law Seminar, 18 November 2009

 

‘Human Rights and State Immunity: A Case of Anxiety Displacement?’, conference paper presented at State Immunity and Human Rights, British Institute of International and Comparative Law-Society of Legal Scholars Public International Law Group Nineteenth Conference on Theory and International Law, 12 April 2010

 

‘The Protection of Cultural Property in Armed Conflict’, guest lecture presented at Oxford Brookes University, 20 April 2010

 

‘Culture as a Human Right’, guest lecture presented to M. St. in International Human Rights Law programme and Summer School in International Human Rights Law, University of Oxford, 29 July 2010

 

‘Once upon a time there was a gap …’, conference paper presented at International Law 1989-2010: A Performance Appraisal, European Society of International Law Fourth Biennial Conference, Cambridge, 2-4 September 2010

 

‘Heritage sites, conflict, and the application and evolution of international legal standards’, paper presented at Places: Land, Landscapes and Memoryscapes, Cambridge Post-Conflict and Post-Crisis Group workshop, University of Cambridge, 19 October 2010

 

‘Domestic courts and the law of jurisdiction’, conference paper presented at Domestic Courts as Agents of Legal Development, Third ILDC (International Law in Domestic Courts) Colloquium, University of Glasgow, 20 May 2011

 

‘The Protection of Cultural Property under International Human Rights Law’, conference paper presented at Culture and Innovation in International Law, Canadian Council on International Law 40th Annual Conference, Ottawa, 4 November 2011

 

‘Cultural Rights and Cultural Interests under International Human Rights Law’, conference paper presented at Culture and Innovation in International Law, Canadian Council on International Law 40th Annual Conference, Ottawa, 5 November 2011

 

‘International criminal responsibility for the destruction and misappropriation of cultural property’, conference paper presented at The Armenian Genocide: From Recognition to Reparation, Beirut, 24 February 2012

 

‘The United Nations Convention on Jurisdictional Immunities of States and Their Property and the UK’s possible ratification’, presentation at Current Issues in the Law of Immunities, UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office, London, 23 March 2012

 

‘State Immunity and Human Rights: Wake Up and Smell the Coffee’, guest lecture, Central European University, Budapest, 25 April 2012

 

‘The immunity of state officials from foreign criminal jurisdiction’, workshop presentation at Beyond the ‘Espace Juridique’: The Reach of Jurisdiction under International Human Rights Law and International Criminal Law, European University Institute, Florence, 25 May 2012

 

‘The Cultural Heritage of Humanity: Legal Concept or Luvvy Conceit?’, guest lecture, Centre for Critical International Law, Kent Law School, University of Kent, Canterbury, 6 November 2012

 

‘Immunities and Extradition: The Curious Case of Khurts Bat’, guest lecture, Public International Law Discussion Group, University of Oxford, 15 November 2012

 

‘States, States Enterprises and Immunity from Execution’, conference paper presented at Vanderbilt University-Bilgi University Law School conference on public international law, Bilgi University, Istanbul, 8 March 2013

 

‘The (Self-)Righteousness of International Criminal Law’, workshop paper presented at Contemporary Challenges to International Criminal Law, Institute of International Relations, Prague, 13 March 2013

 

 

CONFERENCE ORGANISATION

Organiser, Slavery Past and Present: A symposium to commemorate the bicentenary of the Slave Trade Act and Peter Peckard’s role in abolition, Magdalene College, Cambridge, 16 February 2007

 

Member, Organizing Committee, The Function of Law in the International Community: Celebrating 25 Years of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge, 11-12 July 2008

 

Member, Cambridge Organizing Committee, International Law 1989-2010: A Performance Appraisal, European Society of International Law Fourth Biennial Conference, Cambridge, 4 September 2010

 

ACADEMIC PRIZES

Journal of International Criminal Justice–Giorgio La Pira Prize 2004, for article ‘Universal Jurisdiction: Clarifying the Basic Concept’ (2004) 2 Journal of International Criminal Justice 735-760