Guglielmo Verdirame

Professor Verdirame is interested in Public International Law, Philosophy of international law/ relations and the interaction between law and strategy.

In Public International Law, his interests lie in: the use of force and the laws of war; human rights and forced displacement; national security law; international organisations; international criminal law; energy, oil and the protection of foreign investment; and the settlement of international disputes.

In Philosophy of international law/relations, Professor Verdirame’s research focus is on: just war; theory of the state and sovereignty; liberalism; German and British idealism.

On the interaction between law and strategy, Professor Verdirame’s work examines the concept of lawfare, non-proliferation and counter-proliferation.

Teaching

Graduate

• Law and Conflict in International Society
• International Law and War
• Political Philosophy and International Law

Guglielmo Verdirame is Professor of International Law. He joined King’s in September 2011 as part of The Dickson Poon School of Law and the Department of War Studies. 

Before coming to King’s, Professor Verdirame was a Lecturer in the Faculty of Law at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law (2003-2011); a Junior Research Fellow at Merton College, Oxford (2000-2003); and a Research Officer at the Refugee Studies Centre at the University of Oxford (1997-98). He was Visiting Professor at Columbia Law School in the Spring Semester of 2015, and held visiting positions at Harvard Law School in 2006-07.

Professor Verdirame is a practising Barrister at 20 Essex Street chambers. His practice includes both commercial (e.g. investment arbitration) and non-commercial aspects of public international law (e.g. inter-state disputes, immunities, human rights).