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Associate Professor of International Law

M.A. (Cantab), LL.M. (LSE), BVC (Middle Temple), Ph.D. (Cantab)

Interests

Andrew’s research explores topical and structural questions of international law and global governance, with a current focus on the role, regulation and responsibility of global private actors and their relationship with international law and the state. He is also interested in the interaction between international law and other legal/normative systems; the law of immunity; the impact of digital technologies and big data on democracy and global governance; and the ways in which international law exacerbates and/or responds to human vulnerability, disenfranchisement and inequality. Among other things, Andrew is currently working on a project called "Everywhere and Nowhere: The Transnational Corporation in the Global Legal Order".

Andrew teaches and supervises in the areas of international law and global governance, including human rights, political economy, technology and the law, and globalisation. 

CV / Biography

Andrew is an Associate Professor of International Law; a Fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law; and a Fellow, Director of Studies in Law and Dean of College at Corpus Christi College. 

Andrew went to a state comprehensive secondary school before reading Philosophy and Law at Cambridge (Selwyn College). He went to the London School of Economics for an LLM in Public International Law before returning to Cambridge for a PhD. He was previously a Junior Research Fellow at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law and a Junior Research Lecturer at Newnham College. In 2016, he was a Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law. He presented his research at the Tenth Annual Penn-Stanford International Faculty Forum, Stanford Law School and the NYU/Nottingham/Melbourne, Fifth Annual Junior Faculty Forum in International Law. From 2020-2022, Andrew was the Academic Secretary of the Faculty of Law and a Faculty Officer. In 2022, he was awarded the Student-Led Teaching Award for Small-Group Teaching (Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences); in 2023, he was a Finalist for the Oxford University Press Law Teacher of the Year Award; and in 2024, he was awarded the University of Cambridge Pilkington Prize for Excellence in Teaching

Andrew is a member of the Transnational Association of Legal Scholars, and a Note Editor for the Cambridge Law Journal. 

Andrew also advises states, international organisation, and NGOs on questions of international law and its application in domestic courts. He has also provided legal training to government officials and practitioners.

Publications

 

Books

Everywhere and Nowhere: The Global Corporation in the International Legal Order (Cambridge University Press, 2024)

Published Dec 2024

Great Debates in International Law (with Rumiana Yotova) (Hart Publishing), forthcoming

Co-Author/s:
Rumiana Yotova
Publisher:
Published Forthcoming

Immunities of Special Missions (with Michael Wood) (Brill Nijhoff, 2019)

Co-editor(s):
Michael Wood
Co-Author/s:
Michael Wood
Publisher:
ISBN 13:
9789004360556
Published Mar 2019

Articles

"Review of Executive Action Abroad: The UK Supreme Court in the International Legal Order" [2019] 68(1) ICLQ 35-66

Citation:
[2019] 68(1) ICLQ 35-66
DOI:
10.1017/S0020589318000374
Published: Jan 2019

"Transnational Corporate Responsibility in Domestic Courts: Still Out of Reach?" (2019) 113 American Journal of International Law Unbound 4

Citation:
(2019) 113 American Journal of International Law Unbound 4
DOI:
10.1017/aju.2018.95
Published: Jan 2019

"State Immunity and the Right of Access to a Court under the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights" (2016) 65(1) International and Comparative Law Quarterly 213

Citation:
(2016) 65(1) International and Comparative Law Quarterly 213
DOI:
10.1017/S0020589315000524
Published: Jan 2016

"Corporations and Transnational Litigation: Comparing Kiobel with the Jurisprudence of English Courts" (2013) 107(4) American Journal of International Law Unbound e-23

Citation:
(2013) 107(4) American Journal of International Law Unbound e-23
Published: Oct 2013

"Immunity of State Officials from the Criminal Jurisdiction of a Foreign State" (2013) 62(1) International and Comparative Law Quarterly 193-224

Citation:
(2013) 62(1) International and Comparative Law Quarterly 193-224
Published: Jan 2013

"The Contemporary Law of Blockade and the Gaza Freedom Flotilla" (2011) 13 Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law 397

Citation:
(2011) 13 Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law 397
Published: Jul 2011

"Force of Circumstance: The European Arrest Warrant and Human Rights" (2010) 6(1) Democracy and Security 17

Citation:
(2010) 6(1) Democracy and Security 17
Published: May 2010

Book Chapters

"The Immunities of Members of Special Missions" (with Michael Wood) in T Ruys, N Angelet and L Ferro (ed(s)), Cambridge Handbook on Immunities and International Law (Cambridge University Press, 2019)

Case Notes

Russian Threats of Force Against Ukraine May Constitute Duress in English Contract Law (2024) 83 Cambridge Law Journal 1

Co-Author/s:
Janet O’Sullivan
DOI:
10.1017/S0008197324000035
Published: Apr 2024

Deference and Dualism Are Not Friends of the Earth (2023) 82(2) Cambridge Law Journal 195

Co-Author/s:
Alison Young
DOI:
10.1017/S0008197323000235
Published: Sep 2023

An Involuntary Union? Supreme Court Rejects Scotland's Claim for Unilateral Referendum on Independence (2023) 82(1) Cambridge Law Journal 1

Co-Author/s:
Alison Young
DOI:
10.1017/S0008197323000090
Published: Apr 2023

False Claims of Genocide Have Real Effects: ICJ Indicates Provisional Measures in Ukraine’s Proceedings Against Russia (2022) 81(2) Cambridge Law Journal 217

DOI:
10.1017/S0008197322000265
Published: Sep 2022

From Ambition to Obligation: Royal Dutch Shell Ordered to Reduce Co2 Emissions in Line with Paris Agreement (2021) 80(3) Cambridge Law Journal 425

DOI:
10.1017/S0008197321000891
Published: Nov 2021

Who Controls Venezuela’s Gold? De Facto and De Jure Recognition of a Foreign Head of State (2021) 80(1) Cambridge Law Journal 11

DOI:
10.1017/S0008197321000167
Published: Mar 2021

Corporate Liability for Breaches of International Law Abroad: Canadian Supreme Court Opens the Door but Questions Remain (2020) 79(3) Cambridge Law Journal 381

DOI:
10.1017/S0008197320000604
Published: Nov 2020

Parent Company Duty of Care to Third Parties Harmed by Overseas Subsidiaries (2019) 78(3) Cambridge Law Journal 486

DOI:
10.1017/S0008197319000801
Published: Nov 2019

Decisions of British Courts During 2017 Involving Questions of Public International Law (2019) 88 British Yearbook of International Law

DOI:
10.1093/bybil/brz005
Published: Jun 2019

Identification of Special Mission Immunity and the Reception of Customary International Law into English Law (2019) 78(1) Cambridge Law Journal 1

Corporate Liability For Human Rights Abuse: For Congress, Not Courts (2018) 77(3) Cambridge Law Journal 441

DOI:
10.1017/S000819731800079X
Published: Nov 2018

Decisions of British Courts During 2016 Involving Questions of Public International Law (2018) 87 British Yearbook of International Law 298–336

Co-Author/s:
J Trinidad
DOI:
10.1093/bybil/bry022
Published: Sep 2018

The Limits of State and Diplomatic Immunity in Employment Disputes (2018) 77(1) Cambridge Law Journal 1

UK Government Cannot Hide from Complicity in Human Rights Abuses (2017) 76(2) Cambridge Law Journal 223

Decisions of British Courts During 2015 Involving Questions of Public International Law (2015) 86 British Yearbook of International Law 239–290

Decisions of British Courts During 2014 Involving Questions of Public International Law (2015) 85 British Yearbook of International Law 197-251

Decisions of British Courts During 2013 Involving Questions of Public International Law (2014) 84 British Yearbook of International Law 395-484

The State Immunity Act and the Right of Access to a Court (Benkharbouche v Embassy of the Republic of the Sudan) (2014) 73(1) Cambridge Law Journal 1

Daimler v. Bauman – Kiobel’s younger brother? (2014) American Journal of International Law Unbound (27 January 2014)

Published: Jan 2014

Transnational Human Rights Cases? Not in our Backyard! (2013) 72(3) Cambridge Law Journal 487

Crossing the Corporate Veil: The Duty of Care Owed by a Parent Company to the Employees of its Subsidiary (2012) 71(3) Cambridge Law Journal 478 (cited with approval in Lungowe v Vedanta Resources Plc [2016] EWHC 975)

Property Rights in an Occupied Territory (2011) 70(1) Cambridge Law Journal 7

Blog Posts

Conference Papers

"International Law: Reparations and the Responsibility of Private Actors" (Reparations for Slavery and Haiti's 1825 Indemnification: The Responsibility of Contemporary Private Actors)

Conference:
Reparations for Slavery and Haiti's 1825 Indemnification: The Responsibility of Contemporary Private Actors
Published: May 2023

"A Right Without a Remedy? Private Enforcement of Property Rights Under the Cape Town Convention" (Cape Town Convention Academic Conference)

Conference:
Cape Town Convention Academic Conference
Published: Sep 2022

"Regulating Offshore Secrecy in the Overseas Territories" (International Symposium on Economic Crime)

Co-Author/s:
Jamie Trinidad
Conference:
International Symposium on Economic Crime
Published: Sep 2022

"The Digital Corporation and Sovereignty" (Workshop)

Conference:
Workshop
Published: Oct 2020

"Protecting Democracies from Global Digital Platforms: What Role for International Law?" (Democracy and International Law Workshop)

Conference:
Democracy and International Law Workshop
Published: Sep 2019

"Everywhere and Nowhere: International Law's Partial Recognition of the Corporation" (Penn-Stanford International Junior Faculty Forum)

Conference:
Penn-Stanford International Junior Faculty Forum
Published: Oct 2017

"Foreign Direct Liability of EU Parent Corporations: Challenges and Responses" (Business and Human Rights: International Law Challenges, European Responses Conference)

Conference:
Business and Human Rights: International Law Challenges, European Responses Conference
Published: May 2017

"International Law and the Corporate Regulatory Challenge" (Fifth Annual Junior Faculty Forum for International Law, New York University School of Law, 27-29 June 2016)

Conference:
Fifth Annual Junior Faculty Forum for International Law, New York University School of Law, 27-29 June 2016
Published: Jun 2016

"Self-defence Against Un-attributable Attacks by Non-State Actors" (24th Annual SLS-BIICL Conference on Theory and International Law)

Conference:
24th Annual SLS-BIICL Conference on Theory and International Law
Published: May 2015

"The Great International Law Bake Off: Alien Tort Claims and the Creation of International/National Hybrid Norms" (Cambridge Journal of International Law Conference 2013)

Conference:
Cambridge Journal of International Law Conference 2013
Published: May 2013

"Corporate Liability for Assisting State Violations of International Humanitarian Law" (War Crimes Conference 2009, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies)

Conference:
War Crimes Conference 2009, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies
Published: Apr 2009