MAX PLANCK YEARBOOK OF UNITED NATIONS LAW

E. Tendayi Achiume is a scholar in residence at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton for 2024-2025 and a 2023 MacArthur Fellow. She is an Extraordinary Professor in the Department of Jurisprudence at the University of Pretoria and a Research Associate with the African Centre for Migration and Society at the University of Witwatersrand and the Refugee Studies Centre at Oxford University. From 2017 to 2022, she served as the UN Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, the first woman to hold this role since its creation in 1993. Her research examines the global governance of racism and xenophobia and the legal and ethical implications of colonialism for international migration. She serves on the Board of Editors of the American Journal of International Law and is a commissioner for the O’Neill-Lancet Commission on Racism, Structural Discrimination and Global Health. She has also served as the inaugural Alicia Miñana Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law, where she received the Distinguished Teaching Award. She previously clerked for Deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke and Justice Yvonne Mokgoro on the Constitutional Court of South Africa and worked with Lawyers for Human Rights in Johannesburg. Her scholarship has been widely published, including in the American Journal of International Law, the Georgetown Law Journal, and the Yale Law Journal. She earned her B.A. and J.D. from Yale University.

Martha M Bradley is an Associate Professor in the Department of Public Law, Faculty of Law, University of Johannesburg. She specialises in Public International Law and International Humanitarian Law. Professor Bradley is a Y1 National Research Foundation-rated Scholar. This rating relates to a young researcher (within 5 years of PhD) who is recognised by the reviewers as having the potential (demonstrated by research products) to establish themselves as a researcher and demonstrated an indication that they have the potential to become a future leader in their field. Martha Bradley holds an LLB degree, an LLM in International Air, Space and Telecommunications Law in 2014, an LLM in Shipping Law, and an LLD degree in Public International Law. Martha has completed several certificate courses at the International Institute for Humanitarian Law in San Remo. Professor Bradley recently was selected by the Minister of Higher Education of South Africa to participate in the DHET Future Professors Program Cohort 1 Phase 2 where 29 promising academics from South African universities are selected to undergo advanced training to develop their capabilities and fill the gaps in the professoriate in South Africa.

Yifeng Chen is an associate professor at the Peking University Law School and deputy director of the Peking University Institute of International Law. Before joining Peking University, He was a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki from 2010-2013. His fields of interest include the history and theory of international law, international organisations, global governance and labour law.

Charles C. Jalloh is the Richard A. Hausler Chair and Professor of International Law at the University of Miami School of Law. He is a member of the United Nations International Law Commission (ILC), where he serves as Special Rapporteur for the topic “Subsidiary means for the determination of rules of international law” and has held leadership roles, including Chair of the Drafting Committee (70th session) and General Rapporteur (71st session). A widely published scholar, he has authored numerous books and articles in leading journals, including the American Journal of International Law, where he serves on the Board of Editors. He is the founding editor of the African Journal of Legal Studies and the African Journal of International Criminal Justice. Before joining academia, he practised law in Canada and internationally, including at the UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and the Special Court for Sierra Leone. He has advised governments and international organisations and appeared before the International Criminal Court, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, and the International Court of Justice. He holds common law and civil law degrees from McGill University, a Master’s in International Human Rights Law from Oxford University, and a Ph.D. in International Law from the University of Amsterdam.

Lauri Mälksoo is Professor of International Law at the University of Tartu in Estonia, member of the Institut de Droit International and the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe. He has published the monographs “Illegal Annexation and State Continuity” (Brill, 2nd ed. 2022) and “Russian Approaches to International Law” (OUP, 2015).

Phoebe Okowa is Professor of Public International Law at Queen Mary, University of London and an advocate of the High Court of Kenya. Educated at the University of Nairobi and the University of Oxford, she previously taught at the University of Bristol.  In 2011 and 2015, she was Global Visiting Professor at New York University, School of Law. A member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague, she has appeared as Counsel before the International Court of Justice and lectured on practical questions of international law for the United Nations at its Regional Course on International Law for Africa.  She is on the Public International Law Advisory Panel of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law; the Stockholm Centre for International Law and Justice; Center for International Law and Policy in Africa and the Committee of Legal Experts of the Commission of Small Island States on Climate Change and International Law.  She has written on a wide range of contemporary international law topics including State responsibility for transboundary air pollution;  the interface between state responsibility and individual accountability for international crimes; Africa and the International Criminal Court; Unilateral and collective responses to protection of natural resources in conflict zones and aspects of the protection of the environment. In November 2021, Professor Okowa was elected to the UN International Law Commission for the term 2023-2027.

Federica Paddeu is Associate Professor in Law and Derek Bowett Fellow at Queens’ College, Cambridge, and fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law. Federica is a generalist international lawyer, with interests in State responsibility, the law and theory of exceptions in international law, the law on the use of force and international investment law. Recent publications include Justification and Excuse in International Law and Exceptions in International Law (with Prof Lorand Bartels). She serves in the Public International Law Advisory Panel at the British Institute for International and Comparative Law, and is a member of the Board of the European Society of International Law.

Martins Paparinskis is Professor of Public International Law at University College London and a member designate of the United Nations International Law Commission. He is a generalist international lawyer with a particular interest in State responsibility and international dispute settlement as well as the specialist fields of investment law, human rights law, and transboundary water law. He has published in American Journal of International Law, British Year Book of International Law, and European Journal of International Law as well as in Oxford Monographs of International Law. Martins is a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, the OSCE Court of Conciliation and Arbitration, and the implementation committee of the UNECE Water Convention.

Professor Alexander Proelss is the Chair of the International Law of the Sea and International Environmental Law, Public International Law and Public Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Hamburg, where he is also the Director of the Institute for the Law of the Sea and for Maritime Law (ISSR). Prior to his move to Hamburg, he was a Professor of Public Law, in particular, Public International Law and European Union Law, and Director of the Institute of Environmental Law (IUTR) and the Institute for Legal Policy (IRP) at Trier University. International environmental law and the international law of the sea constitute the focal points of his research. Alexander Proelss has been a member of several national and international research consortia and has advised State agencies, international organisations and NGOs both in Germany and abroad on numerous occasions.

Dr Omri Sender is a scholar and practitioner in public international law. He acts as counsel and advisor to States, international organisations, and multinational corporations, including in dispute settlement proceedings before international courts and tribunals. He is the author of numerous writings in the field of public international law, which, like his practice, cover the full range of the discipline. Dr Sender previously served as Counsel to the World Bank and as Law Clerk to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Israel.

Ntina Tzouvala is an Associate Professor, at the School of Global and Public Law, University of New South Wales Faculty of Law & Justice. Her work focuses on the history, theory and political economy of international law. Her first monograph, Capitalism as Civilisation: a History of International Law (Cambridge UP, 2020), was awarded the ASIL Certificate of Merit for a preeminent contribution to creative scholarship and the​ Australian Legal Research Award (ALRA) in the book category.

Philippa Webb is a Professor of Public International Law at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford, and a Fellow of Exeter College. She previously served as Special Assistant and Legal Officer to Judge Rosalyn Higgins GBE QC during her Presidency of the International Court of Justice and as a legal adviser to the Chief Prosecutor at the International Criminal Court. She is a barrister at Twenty Essex and serves on the UK Attorney-General’s Public International Law Panel of Counsel, regularly appearing before the International Court of Justice, the European Court of Human Rights, and inter-State arbitral tribunals. Her scholarship spans international dispute settlement, human rights, and international organisations law, with publications including Freedom of Speech in International Law (2024), The Right to a Fair Trial in International Law (2021, with Amal Clooney), and Oppenheim’s International Law: United Nations (2017). She is a founding Board Member of the Clooney Foundation for Justice and serves on multiple international legal advisory panels. She holds a doctorate (JSD) and an LLM from Yale Law School.

Margaretha Wewerinke-Singh is an Associate Professor of Sustainability Law at the University of Amsterdam (the Netherlands), Adjunct Senior Lecturer in Environmental Law at the University of the South Pacific (Fiji) and Of Counsel at Blue Ocean Law, a boutique international law firm based in Guam. Her scholarship focuses on climate justice, human rights and sustainable development, and builds on more than 15 years of practice at the national, regional and international levels. Amongst other things, she currently serves as Lead Counsel for the Republic of Vanuatu in its pursuit of an advisory opinion on climate change from the International Court of Justice (together with Julian Aguon) and chairs the Loss and Damage Subcommittee of the Committee of Legal Experts of the Commission of Small Island States and International Law. She serves on the Scientific Advisory Board of the European Journal of International Law and on the Editorial Board of the Asia Pacific Journal of Environmental Law.