People
Members of the Manchester International Law Centre.
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Jean d’Aspremont
Jean d’Aspremont is Professor of International Law at the University of Manchester and Sciences Po School of Law. He is General Editor of the Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law, Director of Oxford International Organizations, and series editor of the Melland Schill Studies. He has written extensively on international law and legal theory.
Areas of expertise: international legal theory, philosophy of international law, international institutional law, sources of international law, and international responsibility.
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Iain Scobbie
Professor Scobbie joined Manchester in 2013 as Professor of Public International Law. Previously at SOAS, he specializes in international humanitarian law, adjudication, and legal theory. His Ph.D. focused on the ICJ, and he co-founded the Manchester International Law Centre.
Areas of expertise: international law, legal theory, use of force, international courts, International Court of Justice, international humanitarian law gender, and media.
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Yenkong Ngangjoh-Hodu
Yenkong Ngangjoh-Hodu is Professor of International Law and former Head of Manchester’s Law Department. He specialises in international economic law, development law, and AI in law. His published work includes African Perspectives on International Investment Law and a forthcoming monograph with Cambridge University Press.
Areas of expertise: public international law, international investment law, international trade law, international development law, international monetary law, artificial Intelligence and International law.
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Emma Nyhan
Dr Emma Nyhan is a law lecturer at the University of Manchester. An interdisciplinary scholar, her work spans international law, legal anthropology, and post-colonial studies. Previously, she was a Research Fellow at Melbourne Law School and the Australian National University.
Areas of expertise: theory and practice of international law, transnational law, global human rights, law and society, legal and cultural anthropology, and postcolonial studies.
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Yusra Suedi
Yusra Suedi is a Lecturer in International Law at the University of Manchester. She holds a doctorate from the University of Geneva. She has worked for the UN, international courts, and assisted counsel before the International Court of Justice.
Areas of expertise: International courts and tribunals, International Court of Justice, self-determination, international climate change law, international human rights law.
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John Haskell
John D. Haskell is a Chair/Professor at the University of Manchester Law School. His current research focuses on cultures of expertise across the intersections of finance, religion and technology in relation to global law and management.
Area of expertise: law and culture, law and political economy, law and religion, law and technology, legal history, legal theory.
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Justina Uriburu
Dr Justina Uriburu is a lecturer in international law at the University of Manchester. Previously a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute, she specialises in public international law, adjudication, and legal theory, with publications in leading journals.
Areas of expertise: International law, adjudication, Latin America, critical theory, and feminism.
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Emma Luce Scali
Emma Luce Scali is a Lecturer in International Law at The University of Manchester. Her research interests and publications centre around human rights, sovereign financing and the global economic order. She is the author of Sovereign Debt and Socio-economic Rights Beyond Crisis: The Neoliberalisation of International Law (CUP, 2022). She assisted the mandate of the UN Independent Expert on Foreign Debt and Human Rights and is a consultant to OHCHR’s Regional Office for South-East Asia.
Areas of expertise: international law, economic and social rights, sovereign debt, EU law
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Jack Kenny
Jack Kenny is a research fellow at the University of Manchester. Previously, he led international law research at BIICL and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He holds a DPhil from Oxford and has worked at Bonn, Chatham House, and Amsterdam Centre for International Law.
Areas of expertise: general international law, international law and cyber, international environmental law, law of the sea, and international courts and tribunals.
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Petra Larsen
Dr Petra Larsen is a lecturer in international law at the University of Manchester, specialising in the law of the sea and deep sea minerals. She teaches various law subjects and supervises dissertations. She received HEA Fellow Accreditation in February 2021.
Areas of expertise: international law, law of the sea, international environmental law, marine industries, and deep sea mining regulation.
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Niyoosha Shishehgar
Dr Niyoosha Shishehgar's research and teaching focus on international trade, investment law, and commercial dispute resolution. She completed her PhD at the University of Manchester in November 2023, with a dissertation on a multilateral investment court. She has forthcoming publications on related topics.
Areas of expertise: international investment law, commercial dispute resolution, international trade law, international human rights, and global economic law.
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Nicolette Butler
Dr Nicolette Butler is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Manchester since October 2013. Her research covers international economic law and commercial arbitration. She has led funded projects, including ASPECT and ESRC Impact Accelerator, and advised the EU and NGOs on trade and investment.
Areas of expertise: international investment law, international trade law, WTO law, alternative dispute resolution, and international commercial arbitration.
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Abubakri Yekini
Dr Abubakri Yekini is a Law Lecturer at the University of Manchester. He earned his PhD from Aberdeen and was a Visiting Scholar at the Max Planck Institute in 2019. His research focuses on private international law in Africa, and he is an Assistant Editor for the Ethiopian Yearbook of International Law.
Areas of expertise: international jurisdiction, foreign judgments, African law, comparative law, and Islamic law.
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Affiliate Members
PhD students
- Ameena Zainal
- Aminah Alwehaib
- Arthur Shirichena
- Damla Ercan
- Devni Kitulagoda
- Dut Anyuan
- Guoshu Yang - Graduated
- Luis Bicalho
- Madan Pohkrel
- Medet Taimassov
- Medet Taimassov
- Parveen Bunglawala
- Paul Kibel
- Randy Amouh
- Randy Amuah
- Rees Johnson - Graduated
- Thanapat Chatinakrob - Graduated
- Ursus Eijkelenberg - Graduated
- Weihang Zhou
- Yasir Abbas