School of Law, Gender and Media

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Roles: 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
Department: School of Law, Gender and Media
Qualifications: BA, LLM, PhD (Nottingham) DipEd
Building: Senate House
Office: S334
Email address: mc7@soas.ac.uk
Telephone number: +44 (0)20 7898 4673

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International law, human rights

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Name	Title
Muhammet Can Genc	Questioning Global Commons
Melinda Janki	External self-determination under international law.
Dr Riccardo Labianco	Public International Law and the Responsibility of Arms-Exporting States
Denise Naicker	The Co-production of Nuclear Technology and Global Political Order
Syed Masud Reza
Mr Micha Wiebusch	The Emerging Normative Framework of the African Union on Constitutionalism – The Legal Process and the Contribution to Peace, Security and Democratic State Building

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Email: mc7@soas.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7898 4673

School of Law, Gender and Media

The School of Law is dedicated to the legal systems and challenges of the developing world, with complementary strengths in human rights, international law and institutions, environmental law, and international trade and commerce.

School of Law, Gender and Media, Law, Environment and Development Centre & Centre for Water and Development

NLUD-SOAS Joint LLM/MA in Environmental Justice in South Asia

The LLM/MA Environmental Justice in South Asia is an innovative 1-year course located in the Global North and the Global South to explore critical environmental and climate change issues from the South-North perspective while also providing students a rich learning opportunity to engage and learn directly from field exposure.

School of Law, Gender and Media & Department of Economics

Careers: At SOAS I felt I didn't have to explain myself

Having graduated from SOAS in 1991, Samantha Mitchell has carved a career as a Technology Lawyer and External Affairs Consultant. But SOAS also brought so much more to her life, including lifelong friends and a sense of belonging.

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Professor Matthew Craven

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Research interests

PhD Supervision

Publications

Authored Books Open

The Decolonization of International Law: State Succession and the Law of Treaties

The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: A Perspective on its Development

Articles Open

The Tyranny of Strangers: Transformative Occupations Old and New

‘Other Spaces’: Constructing the Legal Architecture of a Cold War Commons and the Scientific-Technical Imaginary of Outer Space

Between Law and History: the Berlin Conference of 1884-85 and the Logic of Free Trade

The London Review of International Law Begins

On Foucault and Wolff or from Law to Political Economy

What Happened to Unequal Treaties? The Continuities of Informal Empire

'We are Teachers of International Law'

Humanitarianism and the Quest for Smarter Sanctions

The Bosnia Case Revisited and the New Yugoslavia

Legal Differentiation and the Concept of the Human Rights Treaty in International Law

The Problem of State Succession and the Identity of States under International Law

The Genocide Case, the Law of Treaties and State Succession

The European Community Arbitration Commission on Yugoslavia

Edited book or Journal Volume Open

International Law and the Cold War

Time, History and International Law

Interrogating the treaty: essays in the contemporary law of treaties

Book Chapters Open

Statehood, Self-Determination and Recognition

Rival Systems: Islamic International Law during the Cold War

Traditions of Equality and Economic and Social Rights

The Time of Revolution: Decolonisation, Heterodox International Legal Historiography and the Problem of the Contemporary

Reading and Unreading a Historiography of Hiatus

Colonial Fragments: Decolonization, Concessions, and Acquired Rights

Statehood, Self-Determination and Recognition

The Ends of Consent

Theorising the Turn to History in International Law

Colonialism and Domination

The Invention of a Tradition: Westlake, The Berlin Conference and the Historicisation of International Law

Statehood, Self-Determination and Recognition

The Violence of Dispossession: Extraterritoriality and Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

Some Thoughts on the Emergent Right to Water

What Happened to Unequal Treaties? The Continuities of Informal Empire

Unity, Diversity and the Fragmentation of International Law

For the 'Common Good': Rights and Interests in the Law of State Responsibility

The Protection of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights under the Inter-American System of Human Rights

Other Open

Invoking the Language of ‘Savagery’ and ‘Barbarism’ in International Law Debates

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