Philippa Webb

Function(s)

• Professor of Public International Law
• Barrister

Area(s) of Expertise

• State and diplomatic immunities;
• International courts and tribunals;
• Peaceful settlement of disputes;
• International human rights law;
• Artificial intelligence and international law.

Biography

Philippa Webb is Professor of Public International Law at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford and a Fellow of Exeter College. She is Co-founder and Director of the Oxford Institute of Technology and Justice. She is a barrister at Twenty Essex and has appeared in the International Court of Justice, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, the European Court of Human Rights and the UK Supreme Court. Philippa’s research interests span all of Public International Law, with particular expertise in international dispute settlement, human rights, international organizations law, international humanitarian law and international criminal law. She has previously held positions in the presidency of the International Court of Justice, the International Criminal Court and United Nations Headquarters as well as an international law firm in Sydney and Tokyo.

Selected publications

• Right to a Fair Trial in International Law (OUP 2021) (with Amal Clooney)
• The Right to a Fair Trial under Article 14 of the ICCPR: Travaux Préparatoires (OUP 2021) (ed., with Amal Clooney)
• Oppenheim’s International Law: United Nations (OUP 2017) (with Dame Rosalyn Higgins GBE KC, Dapo Akande, Sandesh Sivakumaran, and James Sloan)
• International Judicial Integration and Fragmentation (OUP 2015) The Law of State Immunity (3rd rev edn, OUP 2015) (with Lady Hazel Fox KC)
• The Genocide Convention: The Travaux Préparatoires (Martinus Nijhoff 2008) (with Hirad Abtahi)
• From Crisis to Epoch: How to understand this era of international law? (2024) 25(1) Melbourne Journal of International Law 1
• ‘Insulting Speech’ in Clooney and Neuberger (eds), The Right to Free Speech in International Law (OUP, 2024) (with Dario Milo and Rosana Garciandia)
• ‘False Speech’ in Clooney and Neuberger (eds), The Right to Free Speech in International Law (OUP, 2024) (with Marko Milanovic)
• ‘State Responsibility for Modern Slavery: Uncovering and Bridging the Gap’ (2019) 68(3) International & Comparative Law Quarterly 539 (with Rosana Garciandia)