GUGLIELMO VERDIRAME
Personal information_________________________________________________________
Contact details:
Chambers:
20 Essex Street
London WC2A 3AL
E-mail: [email protected]
Academic career_____________________________________________________________
2011King’s College London, Dep’t of War Studies and School of Law
Professor of International Law
2003- 2011
University of Cambridge, Faculty of Law
University Lecturer (tenured)
2003-2011
University of Cambridge, Lauterpacht Centre for International Law
Fellow
2007 (Spring):
Harvard Law School
Visiting Professorial Fellow
2006:
Hague Academy of International Law
Director of Studies for Public International Law
2003- 2006:
University of Cambridge, Corpus Christi College
Fellow
2000-3:
University of Oxford, Merton College
Junior Research Fellow
College Lecturer and Director of Studies (2002-3)
1998- 2000:
London School of Economics, Department of Law
Teaching Assistant
1998:
University of Sussex, Department of Law
Part-time Lecturer.
1997:
University of Oxford
Queen Elizabeth House, Refugee Studies Programme
Research Officer.
Education__________________________________________________________________
2001
PhD, London School of Economics and Political Science
1995
LLM, University of London.
1994
Laurea in Giurisprudenza (magna cum laude), University of Bologna.
MA Oxon and Cantab (titular)
Short programmes
University of Heidelberg (1990-91); Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Summer term, 1992 and
1993)
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Professional work____________________________________________________________
Barrister (Inner Temple), in practice at 20 Essex Street Chambers since 2006.
Areas of practice:
All areas of Public International Law; International Arbitration
Examples of representative work:
Counsel for the State:
Türkiye Petrolleri Anonim Ortakligi v. Republic of Kazakhstan (ICSID Case No. ARB/11/2) [TurkeyKazakhstan BIT and Energy Charter Treaty]
Republic of Italy et al. v Sotheby’s (Case. No. HQ09X00180, High Court of Justice, QBD)
Counsel for Claimants in Litigation against States/Governments:
Foresti and De Carli v Republic of South Africa (ICSID/ARB/07/01) [Italy-South Africa BIT and
Belgium-South Africa BIT]
R (Al Rawi and others) v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs and Secretary of State for
the Home Department (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees intervening) [2006] EWCA Civ
1279)
Other contentious work:
Advisor in Kardassopoulos and Fuchs v Republic of Georgia (ICSID Case Nos. ARB/05/18 and
ARB/07/15) [Georgia-Greece BIT, Georgia-Israel BIT, and Energy Charter Treaty]
Counsel for the Footballer in Adrian Mutu v Chelsea FC (Court of Arbitration for Sports
2008/A/1644)
Advisory Work (details omitted where required by confidentiality):
Establishment of Charter Cities and issues of national sovereignty/territorial integrity (for the
Republic of Honduras and NYU’s Urbanisation Project)
Proceedings in the International Court of Justice under a human rights treaty (for a Middle Eastern
state)
EU legislation affecting national interests of a non-member state (for a Middle Eastern state);
Overall litigation strategy in connection to restitution claims brought under Article 1, Protocol I
of the ECHR (for a European state)
Arbitration under a Bilateral Investment Treaty with Libya (for the foreign investor)
Arbitration under a Bilateral Investment Treaty with Pakistan (for the foreign investor)
Arbitration under the Energy Charter Treaty (for the foreign investor)
UN sanctions in Iran (for a financial institution)
Sanctions on Zimbabwe (for a financial institution)
Re-structuring of assets/investments worth in excess of $1bn with a view to maximising
international legal protection (for a high-net worth Asian businessman)
Compliance with the laws of war in an internal armed conflict (for a non-state actor)
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Recent consultancy work (excluding work as counsel) _____________________________
2012:
Policy Exchange, ‘The Birth-Right of the People’ (report on the British Bill of
Rights)
2011:
Slynn Foundation – Training for Justices of the Albanian Supreme Court on the
protection of property rights under the ECHR
Languages__________________________________________________________________
Italian, English (fluent); French, German (proficient); Hebrew (basic).
Membership ________________________________________________________________
American Society of International Law
British Institute of International and Comparative Law
International Law Association
Commercial Bar Association
Travellers Club
MAIN PUBLICATIONS
Full list available from http://www.kcl.ac.uk/sspp/departments/warstudies/people/professors/verdirame.aspx
Books
-The United Nations and Human Rights: Who Guards the Guardians?, Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press (2011), lvi +448
-G. Verdirame and B. E. Harrell-Bond (foreword by Justice Albie Sachs), Rights in Exile: JanusFaced Humanitarianism, New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books (2005), xxix +385
-(as Editor) Special Issue on Human Rights in War [2008] European Human Rights Law Review 6
Articles and chapters
-‘The Unbearable Lightness of Jus Post-Bellum’, A Response to Antonia Chayes as part of the
Symposium on the 35th Anniversary of Michael Walzer’s Just and Unjust Wars, 23 European Journal
of International Law 2012 (3)
-(with M. Jorek), 'Reparation for Injury in Investment Arbitration' in Trunk, Aliyev (eds.) The
Settlement of Disputes in Countries in Transition (forthcoming in 2012)
-‘Human Rights in War: A Framework for Analysis’, [2008] European Human Rights Law Review 6:
689-705
-‘Breaches of the European Convention on Human Rights Resulting from the Conduct of
International Organisations”, [2008] European Human Rights Law Review 2: 209-213
-‘“The Divided West”: American and European International Lawyers’, 18(2) European Journal of
International Law (2007) 553-580
-‘The Sinews of Peace: International Law, Strategy and the Prevention of War’, 78 British Year
Book of International Law (2006) 83-162
-‘International Law and the Use of Force in Iraq’, in W. Cornish (ed.) The Iraq Crisis 2003,
Palgrave-Macmillan (2004) 92-104
-C. Wickremasinghe and G. Verdirame, ‘Responsibility and Liability for Violations of Human
Rights in the Course of UN Field Operations’ in C. Scott (ed.), Torture as Tort: Comparative
Perspectives on the Development of Transnational Human Rights Litigation, Oxford: Hart Publishing
(2001) 465-489
-‘The Genocide Definition in the Jurisprudence of the Ad Hoc Tribunals’, 49 International and
Comparative Law Quarterly (2000), 578-598
-‘Human Rights and African Constitutions: Some Observations’, in V. Piergigli and I. Taddia
(eds.), African Constitutions, Torino: Giappichelli (2000) 107-118
-‘Definition of Developing Countries under the GATT and other International Law’, 39 German
Yearbook of International Law (1996) 164-197
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