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 graduating from Liverpool University with a law degree, Shaw earned an LL.M. -Degree from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem . This was followed by a doctoral degree at Keele University . In 1988 he was admitted to the bar at Gray's Inn . From 1979 he was a lecturer first at Keele University and then at the University of Essex . In 1982 he founded the Human Rights Center there and was its first director. At the same time he was teaching 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 . Shaw also worked as a visiting scholar at the Lauterpacht Center for International Law at Cambridge University in 2000/2001 and 2005 . He currently holds the Chair of International Law, named after Robert Yewdall Jennings , at Leicester University.

Activity as a barrister

In addition to his university activities, Shaw is a barrister for Essex Court Chambers in London . In this role he advises governments and international organizations on issues of humanitarian law , international maritime law and border disputes. For example, he represented the government of Cameroon in a dispute with Nigeria over the demarcation of the border between the two states before the International Court of Justice and the Cypriot government in questions of the independence of Cyprus from Turkey before the European Court of Human Rights . In 2002 Elisabeth II appointed him 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 Territorial Disputes . In: Robert Badinter (Ed.): Le procès international: liber amicorum Jean-Pierre Cot . Bruylant, Brussels 2009, ISBN 978-2-8027-2723-1 , p. 255.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Press release of the University of Leicester, accessed August 1, 2011
2. ↑ Short biography of the University of Paris (PDF 17.9 kB) ( Memento of the original from April 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

Web links

• Biography at Essex Chambers
• Brief biography at Leicester University
• Literature by and about Malcolm Shaw in the catalog of the German National Library