Christopher Greenwood

Christopher John Greenwood CMG QC ( born May 12, 1955 in Wellingborough ) is a British lawyer and professor of international law at the London School of Economics and Political Science. On 6 November 2008, he was elected judge of the International Court of Justice in The Hague.

Life

Greenwood attended Wellingborough School in Wellingborough, and then studied law at Magdalene College, University of Cambridge where he completed his bachelor's degree in 1976, in 1977 a Bachelor of Laws in international law and in 1980 earned a master's degree.

From 1981 to 1996, he worked as a lecturer at the University of Cambridge and was then appointed professor of international law at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Since 1985 he has worked as a barrister. He was appointed Queen's Counsel in June 2002 and included in the Order of St Michael and St George in 1999.

Greenwood is also co-editor of the British Yearbook of International Law, the Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law and the Journal of Conflict and Security Law. He is a member of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law, the International Institute of Humanitarian Law and since 1979 of the American Society of International Law.

He represented the British government in numerous cases before international and national courts. On 6 November 2008, he was appointed as the successor to Rosalyn Higgins of the International Court of Justice.

Work (selection)

  • State Responsibility for the Decisions of national courts. In: Malgosia Fitzmaurice (eds.): Issues of state responsibility before international judicial institutions, Hart, Oxford 2004, ISBN 1-8411-3389-2, pp. 55-73
  • Command responsibility and the Hadzihasanovic decision. In: Journal of international criminal justice, vol 2, 2004, ISSN 1478-1387, pp. 598-605
  • The legality of the use of force: Iraq in 2003. In: Michael Bothe (ed.) Redefining sovereignty: the use of force after the cold war, Transnational Publ, Ardsley 2005, ISBN 1-571-05324-7, S. 387-415
  • Essays was on in international law. Cameron May, London 2006, ISBN 978-1-905017-32-4
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