Malgosia Fitzmaurice
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Year of election
- 2019
- Year of titular member
- 2023
- Commissions
Function(s)
Professor of International Law, Queen Mary University of London
Area(s) of Expertise
- Law of Treaties
- International Environmental Law
- Water Law
- Indigenous Peoples
Biography
Professor Malgosia Fitzmaurice holds a chair of public international law at the Department of Law, Queen Mary University of London. She is a full Member of the Institut de Droit International. In 2021 she was awarded the Doctorate Honoris Causa of the University of Neuchâtel. She specialises in international environmental law; the law of treaties; and indigenous peoples. She publishes widely on these subjects. View Professor Fitzmaurice’s CV for a full list of publications.
In 2020, Professor Fitzmaurice has published (with Professor Panos Merkouris) a book Treaties in Motion: The Evolution of Treaties from Formation to Termination (Cambridge University Press, 2020). The concept of motion adopted in this book is based on the philosophy of Aristotle. Each chapter’s analysis proceeds by focusing on a specific area of a treaty’s ‘life-cycle’, where each type of motion shines through and is described through three different frames of reference: treaties, the Vienna Convention of the Law of Treaties, and customary law. Her publications also include a monograph Whaling and International Law, Cambridge University Press, 2015 and (co-edited with Dai Tamada) Whaling in Antarctic: Significance and Implications of the ICJ Judgment, Brill/ Nijhoff, 2016.
She has delivered a lecture on the International Protection of the Environment at the The Hague Academy of International Law. She was invited to deliver the General Course at the The Hague Academy of International Law in 2028. She participate in regional United Nations International Law Fellowships Programme, teaching the course on International Environmental Law. She is a part time Nippon Foundation Professor of Marine Environmental Protection at the International Maritime Law Institute of the International Maritime Organisation. Professor Fitzmaurice was invited as a Visiting Professor to and lectured at various universities, such Berkeley Law School; University of Kobe; Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I). She also supervises PhD students.
She is Editor in Chief of International Community Law Review journal and of the book series published by Brill/Nijhoff Queen Mary Studies in International Law.
She has also advised on the law of treaties and international environmental law and served as an expert in her areas of expertise (currently a part of a legal team of the Republic of Marshall Islands for the Advisory Opinion on climate change).
Selected publications
- Books/Edited/Chapters:
(with Valsamis Mitsilegas, Elena Fasoli, Fabio Giuffrida) The Legal Regulation of Environmental Crime. The International and European Dimension (Brill/Nijhoff 2022), pp. 95-108. - (with Meagan S. Wong and Joseph Crampin), International Environmental Law: Text, Cases and Materials (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022)
- (with Stephen Allen, Daniel Costelloe, Paul Gragl, and Edward Guntrip ) The Oxford Handbook of Jurisdiction in International Law (Oxford University Press, 2019) ISBN 978-o-19-878614-6
- (with Wouters, Tanzi, Andenas and Chiuzi), General Principles and Coherence of International Law (Brill. Nijhoff), 2019 ISBN 1877-4822
- ‘Whaling in the Antarctic case’ (with Agnes Rydberg) in: (Daniel Rothwell et all eds.) Concise Encyclopedia of Polar Law, (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2025), 286-289.
- ‘Marine mammals, the UNCLOS and the International Convention on the Regulation of Whaling Too little and too unstructured, a case study of whaling’, in: Tomasz Kaminski and Karol Karski (eds.) 40 Years of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. Assessment and Prospects , (Routledge, 2025) eBook ISBN9781003492566, 13 pages
- (with Agnes Rydberg), ‘The s.s. Wimbledon Judgment, General International Law, “Objective Regimes’, “Self- contained Regimes” and Fragmentation of International Law: Then and Now’, The Legacy of the Wimbledon Case . Centenary of the First Judgment of the Permanent Court of International, Roman Kwiecien and Malgosia Fitzmaurice (eds.,) (De Gryuter Brill, 2025), ISBN: 978-90-04-70797-9, pp. 91-128
- ‘The Emerging human right to a clean environment and its limitations’, in: Louisa Ashely and Nicolette Butler (eds) Incoherence of Human Rights in International Law. Absence, Emergence and Limitations (Routledge 2024), 131-150.
- (with Agnes Rydberg) ‘Articles 18 -21, 23-26 of the 1970 UNESCO Convention Final Clauses’, in: Ana Filipa Vrodoljak, Andrzej Jakubowski, Alessandro Chechi (eds) The 1970 UNESCO and 1995 UNDROIT Conventions on Stolen of Illegally Transferred Cultural Property. A Commentary (Oxford University Press, 2024), 428-450;
- Articles:
Keynote: Bringing in Community Interests 486Malgosia Fitzmaurice and Under International Environmental Law: Substantive and Procedural Paths, the Heidelberg Journal of International Law (ZaORV) 2025 (4), 1-16 - The Rights of Nature and the Identity of Indigenous Peoples. The Yearbook of Polar (2024), 20-55. https://doi.org/10.1163/22116427_015010003
- ‘Human Right to a Clean Environment: General Reflections’, 26 International Community Law Review, (2024), 331-346
- ‘Human Right to Clean Environment and the Rights of Nature in the Anthropocene’ , 17 PYIL 2024, 135-185
