Sir Christopher John Greenwood

Fonction(s) actuelle(s)

• Master, Magdalene College Cambridge;
• Judge Iran-United States Claims Tribunal.

Domaine(s) d’expertise

• International Humanitarian Law;
• International Arbitration.

Biographie

Chris Greenwood is the Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge, 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. Born in 1955, he was educated at Raeburn Park School, Singapore, Wellingborough School and Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he obtained degrees in Law (BA, 1976) and International Law (LLB/LLM, 1977) with first class honours and was elected a Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge, in 1978. He taught international law at Cambridge for nearly twenty years before being appointed to a Chair of International Law at the London School of Economics in 1996. He was called to the Bar by Middle Temple in 1978, becoming a Bencher in 2003 and was Lent Term Reader in 2020. He became a Queen’s Counsel in 1999. Before going to the International Court as a Judge in 2009, he regularly appeared as counsel in the English courts, the International Court of Justice, the European Court of Human Rights and various other tribunals.

Publications sélectionnées

• International Law Reports (co-edited with Sir Elihu Lauterpacht and Ms Karen Lee)
• Essays on War in International Law (2006)
• ‘State Contracts in International Law’ 58 British Year Book of International Law (1982) 27-81
• ‘The Concept of War in Modern International Law’ 36 International and Comparative Law Quarterly (1987) 283-306
• ‘New World Order or Old?  The Invasion of Kuwait and the Rule of Law’ 55 Modern Law Review (1992) 153-178
• ‘Unity and Diversity in International Law’ in Andenas and Bjorge (eds) Farewell to Fragmentation (Cambridge University Press, 2015), pp. 37-55
• ‘Self-Defence’, in Wolfrum (ed), Max Planck Encyclopaedia of International Law (2012), vol. IX, pp. 103-112
• Aspects of Sovereignty and Sovereign Immunity (Hersch Lauterpacht Lectures 2015), forthcoming.