PROFESSOR JAMES CRAWFORD, Director of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law and Whewell Professor of International Law, University of Cambridge
Biography: James Crawford SC, FBA, LLD is Whewell Professor of International Law and Director of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge. He was a member of the United Nations International Law Commission from 1992-2001 and Special Rapporteur on State Responsibility (1997-2001). In addition to scholarly work on statehood, selfdetermination, collective rights and international responsibility, he has appeared frequently before the International Court of Justice and before other international tribunals, and is actively engaged as expert, counsel and arbitrator.
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DR ANNE LAGERWALL, Assistant Professor of International Law, Université libre de Bruxelles
Biography: Anne Lagerwall is working as Assistant Professor at the International Law Centre of the Université libre de Bruxelles. Her main research interest lies in the field of international peace and security law. She investigates the modifications that international practice might add to the rules concerning the prohibition of the use of force. She teaches LLM courses relating to current issues in international law and legal theory (Master complémentaire en droit international public). She is also Assistant Editor of the Belgian Review of International Law.
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DR AMANDA PERREAU-SAUSSINE, University Lecturer in Law, University of Cambridge
Biography: Amanda Perreau-Saussine is a University Lecturer in Law at the University of Cambridge, where she has been researching and teaching the philosophy of law, public international law, and constitutional law since 2000. Since 2005, she has been the Assistant Director of Cambridge’s Centre for Public Law. Before taking up her position as Fellow and Lecturer in Law at Queen’s College (Cambridge), Amanda held similar positions at Newnham College (Cambridge) and King’s College (London). She worked at Amnesty International’s International Secretariat in London before she commenced her doctoral studies (1994-1998). Among her publications are a co-edited volume titled The Nature of Customary Law (Cambridge University Press, 2007) and book chapters and articles on Vattel, Kant, Bentham, Oppenheim and Lauterpacht and on international law in English courts.
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DR THOMAS SKOUTERIS, Assistant Professor of Law, American University in Cairo
Biography: Thomas Skouteris joined the American University in Cairo in 2008 as Assistant Professor of Law, following eight years of teaching at the Law Faculty of Leiden University in The Netherlands, where he also obtained his PhD. He is a Founding Member of ESIL and currently serves as its Secretary General and as a member of the Executive Board. His research and teaching interests rest with general public international law, theory and history of international law, normativity, international dispute settlement, international criminal law and more. His book The Notion of Progress in International Law Discourse was recently published with T.M.C. Asser Press.
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DR GUGLIELMO VERDIRAME, University Lecturer and Lauterpacht Centre Fellow, University of Cambridge; Barrister at 20 Essex Street
Biography: Guglielmo Verdirame is a Lecturer in International Law at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law. He has written on different
aspects of international law, including human rights, international economic law, use of force and non-proliferation, and international criminal law. He practises at the Bar in the fields of international arbitration, human rights and general public international law.
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DR JOCHEN VON BERNSTORFF, Senior Fellow, Max Planck Institute, Heidelberg
Biography: Jochen von Bernstorff is a senior fellow of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg and a lecturer for the Law of International Organizations at the University of Frankfurt. As a legal adviser in the UN Department of the German Federal Foreign Office, he was a member of the German delegation at the Commission on Human Rights in 2004 and 2005 and the UN Human Rights Council in 2006, as well as a member of the German delegation at the UN General Assembly in 2003, 2004 and 2005 in New York. He is the author of the book The Public International Law Theory of Hans Kelsen: Believing in Universal Law (CUP 2010) and one of the editors of the book The Exercise of Public Authority by International Institutions – Advancing International Institutional Law (Springer 2010).
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PROFESSOR ANDREW HURRELL, Montague Burton Professor of International Relations, University of Oxford
Biography: Andrew Hurrell is Montague Burton Professor of International Relations at Oxford University and a Fellow of Balliol College. His publications include On Global Order. Power, Values and the Constitution of International Society (2008), and (with Ngaire Woods) Inequality, Globalization and World Politics (1999). His research interests cover theories of international relations, with particular reference to international law and institutions; theories of global governance; the history of thought on international law and relations; comparative
regionalism; and the international relations of the Americas, with particular reference to Brazil. He is currently completing a book on emerging powers and global order.
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