Professor Vaughan Lowe QC
Chichele Professor of Public International Law, Faculty of Law, All Souls College
Professor Vaughan Lowe was formerly Reader in International Law and a Fellow of Corpus Christi College in the University of Cambridge; and before that he taught at the universities of Cardiff and Manchester and, as a visiting professor, in the USA. He practices as a barrister from Essex Court Chambers, London. He has advised governments and corporations on matters of international law, and is the author of many books and articles on the subject, of which the most recent are International Law (OUP, 2007). The Law of the Sea (3rd ed., MUP, 1999; with Robin Churchill),The Settlement of International Disputes (OUP, 1999; with John Collier).
Publications
Selected Books:
Basic Documents on the Law of the Sea: The Legal Order of the Oceans (with S.A.G. Talmon) (Hart Publishing, 2009 Paperback)
The United Nations Security Council and War, (Oxford University Press, 2008), Vaughan Lowe, Adam Roberts, Jennifer Welsh and Dominik Zaum (eds.) ISBN 9780199533435
'Changing Dimensions of International Investment Law', Collected Courses of the Xiamen Academy of International Law, Vol 1, 2006, (Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2008) ISBN 978 9004 167247
International Law – Clarendon Law Series (OUP, 2007), ISBN 978-0-19-92884-9 (paperback) ISBN 978-0-19-923083-9 (hardback)
British Year Book of International Law LXXVI (2006) (ed. with J. Crawford) (OUP, 2007)
British Year Book of International Law LXXVI (2005) (ed. with J. Crawford) (OUP, 2006)
British Year Book of International Law LXXV (2004) (ed. with J. Crawford) (OUP, 2005)
British Year Book of International Law LXXIV (2003) (ed. with J. Crawford) (OUP, 2004)
British Year Book of International Law LXXIII (2002) (ed. with J. Crawford) (OUP, 2003)
British Year Book of International Law LXXII (2001) (ed. with J. Crawford) (OUP, 2002)
British Year Book of International Law LXXI (2000) (ed. with J. Crawford) (OUP, 2001)
British Year Book of International Law LXX (1999) (ed. with J. Crawford) (OUP, 1999)
The Law of the Sea (with R. Churchill) (3rd ed., MUP, 1999)
The Settlement of International Disputes (with J. Collier) (OUP,1999)
The International Law Commission and the Future of International Law (ed. with M. Anderson, A. Boyle, and C. Wickremasinghe (BIICL, 1998)
Fifty Years of the International Court of Justice: Essays in honour of Sir Robert Jennings (ed. with M. Fitzmaurice) (CUP, 1996)
The United Nations and the Principles of International Law: Essays in Memory of Michael Akehurst (ed. with C Warbrick), (Longmans, 1994; reprinted 1996)
Selected recent articles and book chapters:
‘Private Disputes and the Public Interest in International Law’, International Law and Dispute Settlement, D French, M Saul & N D White (eds) (Hart Publishing, 2010). Pp. 3-16.
‘Shadows in the Cave: The Nature of International Law when it Appears before English Courts, International Law and Power: Perspectives on Legal Order and Justice, K H Kaikobad & M Bohlander (eds) (Martinus Nijhoff, 2009). Pp. 125 – 139.
‘Rules of International Law in English Courts’, Tom Bingham and the Transformation of the Law, a Liber Amicorum, M Andenas and D Fairgrieve (eds) (OUP 2009). Pp. 451 – 460.
‘The Manifold Respondent: Multiparty Issues Involving States in Investor-State Arbitration’, Multiple Party Actions in International Arbitration, Edited by Permanent Court of Arbitration, (OUP, 2009). Pp 281 – 293.
‘Sovereignty and International Economic Law’, W Shan, P Simons ad D Singh (eds), Redefining Sovereignty in International Economic Law, (Hart Publishing, 2008), pp. 77 – 84
‘Changing Dimensions of International Investment Law’, Collected Courses of the Xiamen Academy of International Law, Vol 1, 2006 (Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2008), pp. 395-473
'The Interplay between Negotiation and Litigation in International Dispute Settlement’, Ndiaye and Wolfrum (eds), Liber Amicorum Judge Thomas A. Mensah, (Koninklijke Brill NV, 2007), pp. 235–247
‘The Chatham House Principles of International Law on the Use of Force in Self-Defence’, 55 ICLQ 963-972 (2006) (contributor)
‘The Use of Force in the British Tradition of International Law’, Alberico Gentili, L’uso Della Forza Nel Diritto Internazionale, Centro Internazionale di Studi Gentiliani, San Ginesio, (Dott.A. Giuffrè Editore, 2006), pp. 71-95 (in Italian, pp. 99-125)
‘Jurisdiction’, International Law, 2d ed., (ed. M. Evans) (OUP, 2nd edn., 2006), pp. 335-360
‘The Use of Force in the British Tradition of International Law’, Alberico Gentili, L’uso Della Forza Nel Diritto Internazionale, Centro Internazionale di Studi Gentiliani, San Ginesio, (Dott.A. Giuffrè Editore, 2006)
‘Security Concerns and National Sovereignty in the Age of World-Wide Terrorism’, Towards World Constitutionalism – Issues in the Legal Ordering of the World Community, (Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2005), p. 655
‘The ITLOS Opinions of Judge Ivan Shearer’, 24 Australian Year Book of International Law, 2005, p.145
‘Clear and Present Danger: Responses to Terrorism’, International & Comparative Law Quarterly, Volume 54, Part 1, January 2005, p.185
‘Corporations as International Actors and International Law Makers’, The Italian Yearbook of International Law, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers,Vol XIV (2004)
p. 23
‘Foreword – Part One’, Multilateralism v Unilateralism: Policy Choices in a Global Society, ed. J.B. Attanasio and J.J. Norton, BIICL & The SMU Dedman School of Law, 2004, p. 3
‘The Place of Dr Thomas Baty in the International Law Studies of the 20th Century’, in The Commemorative Seminar for Dr Thomas Baty: Contributions of Dr Thomas Baty and Their Reappraisal, (University of Tokyo, 2004), p.1
‘Northern European Co-operation regarding Watercourses’, in M. Fitzmaurice and O. Elias, Watercourse Co-operation in Northern Europe, (TMC Asser Press, 2004), p. 95
‘Is the Nature of the International Legal System Changing? – A Response’, Austrian Review of International and European Law,Vol 8, (Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2003), p. 69
‘The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea: Survey for 2002’, International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law, Volume 18, No. 4, 2003, p. 447
'Comments on Chapters 16 and 17', in M. Byers and G. Nolte, eds., United States Hegemony and the Foundations of International Law (CUP, 2003), p.477
'The Iraq Crisis: What Now?', 52(4) International and Comparative Law Quarterly (2003), p.859
'The Rule of Law: Thinking of an Order in the International Society', 177 Gaiko Forum (April 2003), p.24 (in Japanese)
'Regulation or Expropriation', 55 Current Legal Problems (2002), p.447
'The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea: Survey for 2001', 17 International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law (2002), p.463
'Responsibility for the Conduct of Other States', Japanese Journal of International Law (2002), p.1
'Shareholders' Rights to Control and Manage: From Barcelona Traction to ELSI', in N. Ando et al., eds., Liber Amicorum Judge Shigeru Oda (2002), p.269
'The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea: Survey for 2000', 16 International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law (2001), p.549
'International Legal Issues Arising in the Kosovo Crisis', 49 International and Comparative Law Quarterly (2000), p.934.
'The Politics of Law-Making: Are the Method and Character of Norm Creation Changing?', in M. Byers, ed., The Role of Law in International Politics: Essays in International Relations and International Law (OUP, 2000), p.207
'Future Topics and Problems of the International Legislative Process', in The International Law Commission Fifty Years After: An Evaluation (2000), p.122
'The M/V Saiga: the first case in the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea', 48 ICLQ (1999), p.187
'Precluding Wrongfulness or Responsibility: a Plea for Excuses', 10 European Journal of International Law (1999), p.405
'Sustainable Development and Unsustainable Arguments', in A. Boyle and D. Freestone, eds., International Law and Sustainable Development (OUP, 1999), p.19
'Overlapping Jurisdiction in International Tribunals', 20 Australian Year Book of International Law (1999), p.191
'Can the European Community Bind the Member States in Questions of Customary International Law?', in M. Koskenniemi, ed., International Law Aspects of the European Union (1998), p.149
‘Extra-Territorial Application of National Laws Regulating Business Activities’, Ditchley Conference Report No. D97/05 (1997)
‘US Extraterritorial Jurisdiction: The Helms-Burton and D’Amato Acts’, 46 International & Comparative Law Quarterly (1997), pp.378-390.
