Malcolm Shaw

Malcolm Nathan Shaw QC ( born 1947 ) is a British lawyer and professor of international law at the University of Leicester.

Academic career

After studying law at the University of Liverpool Shaw earned his LL.M. degree from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. This is followed by doctoral studies at Keele University joined. In 1988 he was admitted as a barrister at Gray 's Inn. From 1979 he worked as a professor first at Keele University and then at the University of Essex. In 1982 he founded the Human Rights Centre and was its first director. At the same time he taught at the London School of Economics. In 1983 he was finally appointed professor at the University of Leicester. Since then he has held numerous visiting professorships, including at the University of Paris - Nanterre. In addition, Shaw worked 2000/2001 and 2005 as a visiting scholar at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law at Cambridge University. He currently holds the named after Robert Yewdall Jennings Professor of International Law at the University of Leicester.

Practising barrister

In addition to his university activities, Shaw has worked as a barrister for Essex Court Chambers in London. In this capacity, he advises governments and international organizations on matters of international humanitarian law, maritime law and border disputes. So he has represented the Government of Cameroon in a dispute with Nigeria to the boundary between the two countries before the International Court of Justice and the Cypriot government on Cyprus gained its independence from Turkey in the European Court of Human Rights. 2002 appointed him Elizabeth II Queen's Councel

Awards

  • Officer of the Ordre de la Valeur (2003)

Publications (selection )

  • Title, Control and Closure? The Experience of the Eritrea - Ethiopia Boundary Commission. In: International and Comparative Law Quarterly. 2007, ISSN 1471-6895, p 755
  • International Law. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2008, ISBN 978-0-521-72814-0.
  • Settling Disputes territorial. In: Robert Badinter (ed. ): Le procès international: liber amicorum Jean- Pierre Cot. Bruylant, Brussels 2009, ISBN 978-2-8027-2723-1, p 255
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