School of Law, Gender and Media
Professor of Law
School of Law, Gender and Media
PhD Programme Convenor (Terms 2 & 3)
School of Law, Gender and Media
Research & Enterprise including IKE Director
Centre for the Study of Colonialism, Empire and International Law
Director, Centre for the study of Colonialism, Empire and International Law
Centre for Ottoman Studies
Member
Critique of Economic Sanctions and connection with the general state of international law. The absence of examination of material circumstances, postcolonialism and socioeconomic rights.
The Emerging Normative Framework of the African Union on Constitutionalism – The Legal Process and the Contribution to Peace, Security and Democratic State Building
Publications
The Decolonization of International Law: State Succession and the Law of Treaties
Craven, Matthew (2007). Oxford: (Oxford University Press)
Craven, Matthew, (eds.), Fitzmaurice, Malgosia, (eds.) and Vogiatzi, Maria, (eds.) (2007). Leiden; Boston: Martinus Nijhoff. (Developments in International Law; 58)
Rival Systems: Islamic International Law during the Cold War
Hamzić, Vanja (2024). In: Craven, Matthew, (eds.), Pahuja, Sundhya, (eds.) and Simpson, Gerry, (eds.), International Law during the Cold War, 1945-1990. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Traditions of Equality and Economic and Social Rights
Craven, Matthew (2023). In: Langford, Malcolm, (eds.) and Young, Katherine, (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Economic and Social Rights. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp C62S1-C62N116
The Time of Revolution: Decolonisation, Heterodox International Legal Historiography and the Problem of the Contemporary
Craven, Matthew (2021). In: Chalmers, Shane, (eds.) and Pahuja, Sundhya, (eds.), Routledge Handbook of International Law and the Humanities. London: Routledge
Craven, Matthew, Pahuja, Sundhya and Simpson, Gerry (2019). In: Craven, Matthew, (eds.), Pahuja, Sundhya, (eds.) and Simpson, Gerry, (eds.), International Law and the Cold War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp 1-24
Colonial Fragments: Decolonization, Concessions, and Acquired Rights
Craven, Matthew (2019). In: von Bernstorff, Jochen, (eds.) and Dann, Philipp, (eds.), The Battle for International Law: South-North Perspectives on the Decolonization Era. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp 102-124
Craven, Matthew (2018). In: Bowman, Michael J., (eds.) and Kritsiotis, Dino, (eds.), Conceptual and Contextual Perspectives on the Modern Law of Treaties. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp 103-135
Theorising the Turn to History in International Law
Craven, Matthew (2016). In: Orford, Anne, (eds.) and Hoffman, Florian, (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the Theory of International Law. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp 21-37
The Invention of a Tradition: Westlake, The Berlin Conference and the Historicisation of International Law
Craven, Matthew (2012). In: Vec, M., (eds.) and Nuzzo, L., (eds.), Constructing International Law: The Birth of a Discipline. Frankfurt am Main: Klosterman, pp 363-403
Craven, Matthew (2012). In: Fassbender, Bardo, (eds.) and Peters, Anne, (eds.), Oxford Handbook of the History of International Law. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp 862-889
The Violence of Dispossession: Extraterritoriality and Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Craven, Matthew (2007). In: Baderin, Mashood, (eds.) and McCorquodale, Robert, (eds.), Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in Action. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp 71-88
What Happened to Unequal Treaties? The Continuities of Informal Empire
Craven, Matthew (2005). In: Craven, Matthew, (eds.) and Fitzmaurice, Malgosia, (eds.), Interrogating the Treaty. Essays in the Contemporary Law of Treaties.. Nijmegen: Wolf Legal Publishers, pp 43-80
For the 'Common Good': Rights and Interests in the Law of State Responsibility
Craven, Matthew (2004). In: Fitzmaurice, Malgosia, (eds.) and Sarooshi, D., (eds.), Issues of State Responsibility before International Judicial Institutions. Oxford: Hart Publishing, pp 105-127
The Protection of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights under the Inter-American System of Human Rights
Craven, Matthew (1998). In: Harris, David J., (eds.) and Livingstone, Stephen, (eds.), The inter-American system of human rights. Oxford: Clarendon Press, pp 289-321
