Gerry Simpson

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Gerry Simpson (born 1963 in Fraserburgh ) is a British-Australian international lawyer.

Life

Gerry Simpson studied law at the University of Aberdeen , the University of British Columbia . He received his PhD from the University of Michigan .

Simpson taught law at the Australian National University from 1995 to 1998 , then from 2000 at the London School of Economics (LSE) and from 2007 to 2015 at the University of Melbourne . He has been Professor of International Law at the LSE since 2016. In 2019 Simpson was elected to the British Academy .

Fonts (selection)

  • Great Powers and Outlaw States . Cambridge, 2004
  • Law, War and Crime: War Crimes Trials and the Reinvention of International Law . Polity 2007
  • with Yuki Tanaka , Tim McCormack (Eds.): Beyond Victor's Justice: The Tokyo War Crimes Trial Revisited . Martinus Nijhoff, 2011
  • with Kevin Jon Heller (Ed.): The Hidden Histories of War Crimes Trials . OUP, 2014
  • with Raimond Gaita: Who's Afraid of International Law? Monash, 2016

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