Advisory Board

Georges Abi-Saab

Member of the WTO Appellate Body; Professor of International Law at the Graduate Institute of International Studies until 2001, Honorary Professor of Law at Cairo University and Member of the Institute of International Law.

Laurence Boisson de Chazournes

Professor of Law at the University of Geneva and Head of the Department of Public International Law and International Organization; Visiting Professor at the Graduate Institute of International Studies.

Geneviève Burdeau

Professor of Law at the University of Paris I-Panthéon Sorbonne; Secretary-General of the Academy of International Law; Member of the Institute of International Law.

Juan Antonio Carillo-Salcedo

Professor of Public International Law at the University of Sevilla.

Christine Chinkin

Professor of International Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Overseas Affiliated Faculty Member, University of Michigan Law School; has held full-time academic posts at the Universities of London and Sydney, New York Law School and the National University of Singapore.

Bruno de Witte

Professor of European Union Law at the European University Institute; formerly Professor of Law at the University of Maastricht.

Giorgio Gaja

Professor of International Law at the University of Florence; member of the International Law Commission.

Christine Gray

Reader in Law at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of St. John's College.

Rosalyn Higgins

Member of the International Court of Justice since 1995; formerly Professor of International Law at the Universities of London and Kent.

Robert Howse

Professor of Law at the University of Michigan; previously on the faculty of the University of Toronto and Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School. Member of the faculty of the World Trade Institute.

Benedict Kingsbury

Professor of Law at the New York University School of Law; previously taught at Oxford University and Duke University Law School.

Pierre Klein

Professor of Law at the Free University of Brussels (ULB) and Director of ULB's Centre of International Law.

Martti Koskenniemi

Professor of International Law at the University of Helsinki and Visiting Global Professor of Law at the New York University School of Law; Director of the Erik Castrén Institute of International Law and Human Rights, Member of the International Law Commission.

Charles Leben

Professor of Public International Law and Co-director of the Institute for Advanced International Studies at Panthéon-Assas (Paris 2) University.

Vaughan Lowe

Professor of Public International Law at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of All Souls College; formerly Reader in International Law and a Fellow of Corpus Christi College in the University of Cambridge; practising barrister from Essex Court Chambers, London.

Alain Pellet

Professor of International Law, University of Paris X-Nanterre; member and former Chairman of the United Nations International Law Commission.

Hélène Ruiz Fabri

Professor of Public Law at the University of Paris I-Panthéon Sorbonne and member of the Institut universitaire de France; formerly Professor of Law at the Universities of Caen, Cergy-Pontoise and Paris XIII.

Philippe Sands

Professor of International Law, University of London; Global Professor of Law, New York University School of Law, Co-Director, Project on International Courts and Tribunals.

Marina Spinedi

Associate Professor of International Organization at the University of Florence.

Joel Trachtman

Professor of International Law and Academic Dean at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University; member of the Editorial Board of the American Journal of International Law.