Dinner meeting at the Gonville Hotel
Tue, Jan 29th 2019 at 7:00 pm -
Sir Christopher Greenwood: “Travelling the Highways, Byways and Blind Alleys of International Law”
Host - John Barrett; Cashier - Sylvia Pryer; Reception - Jenny Chapman-Hay; Equipment/projection - Morris Chudleigh
Christopher Greenwood is 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. From 1996 he was Professor of International Law at the London School of Economics and a practising barrister who regularly argued cases about international law before international and English courts. Before that he taught as a Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he had also been a student.
His publications include over 100 volumes of the International Law Reports, The Kuwait Crisis: Basic Documents (1991) and a collection of essays – Essays on War in International Law (2006). He is currently working on a tenth edition of Oppenheim’s International Law. He has sat as an arbitrator in numerous investment cases and in the arbitration between Mauritius and the United Kingdom regarding the Chagos Islands. He 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 was knighted in 2009. In June 2018 he was appointed Knight Grand Cross (GBE) for services to international justice.
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