Cambridge University United Nations Association: Sir Christopher Greenwood

Christopher Greenwood is the Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge, a Judge of the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal and an international arbitrator. He was a Judge of the International Court of Justice from 2009 to February 2018. Born in 1955, he was educated at Raeburn Park School, Singapore, Wellingborough School and Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he obtained degrees in Law (BA, 1976) and International Law (LLB/LLM, 1977) with first class honours and was elected a Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge, in 1978. He taught international law at Cambridge for nearly twenty years before being appointed to a Chair of International Law at the London School of Economics in 1996. He was elected an Honorary Fellow of Magdalene College in 2009; the Fellowship went into abeyance when he became Master of the College in 2020.

Christopher Greenwood was called to the Bar by Middle Temple in 1978, becoming a Bencher in 2003 and was Lent Term Reader in 2020. Before going to the International Court as a Judge in 2009, he regularly appeared as counsel in the English courts, the International Court of Justice, the European Court of Human Rights and various other tribunals. His publications include over 130 volumes of the International Law Reports, a collection of essays – Essays on War in International Law (2006) – and numerous articles. He is currently working on a tenth edition of Oppenheim’s International Law. Christopher Greenwood was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 1999, made a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) for services to public international law in 2002 and knighted in 2009. In June 2018 he was appointed Knight Grand Cross (GBE) for services to international justice. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law and a Member of the Institut de droit international.

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