Core Staff

ELAC is managed by an executive team of 3 Directors: Dapo Akande, David Rodin and Jennifer Welsh.

Co-director, ELAC and Professor of International Relations, University of Oxford

Research Interests: Humanitarian Intervention and the Responsibility to Protect; United Nations Security Council; International Relations Theory and Normative Theory; Canadian Foreign Policy

Co-director and Senior Research Fellow, ELAC, University of Oxford

Research Interests: War and International Conflict; Terrorism and Asymmetric War; Torture; Business Ethics and International Justice.

Co-director, ELAC, University Lecturer in Public International Law, University of Oxford & Yamani Fellow, St Peter’s College

Research Interests: Public International Law; Application of International Law in National Courts; International Law and the Use of Force; Law of International Organizations; International Dispute Settlement.

Senior Research Fellow, ELAC

Research interests: The protection of civilians; Humanitarian ethics; Business and violence; Corporate responsibility and ethical dilemmas in fragile states.

Research Associate, ELAC

Research Interests: Ethics of War, with a particular emphasis on the Just War Tradition; Humanitarian Intervention and the Responsibility to Protect.

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, ELAC and Delft University of Technology

Research Interests: Just War theory, political philosophy and ethics, and theories of rights and justice.

British Academy Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, ELAC

Research Interests: Chinese foreign and security policy, in particular as it relates to nuclear weapons; nuclear proliferation in Northeast Asia; global nuclear history; concepts of nuclear order and responsibility.

Reseach Assistant, Humanitarian Ethics , ELAC

Research Interests: Humanitarianism and applied ethics

Administrator, ELAC

Visiting Fellows

Visiting Fellow, ELAC

Visiting Fellow, ELAC

Research interests: The Governance of the Arms Trade, Human Rights, Governance of the Police.

Visiting Fellow, ELAC and International Consultant, Geneva Call

Research interests: Armed non-State actors and displaced people in armed conflict

Visiting Fellow, ELAC and Professor of Philosophy and Law, University of Oregon

Research interests: Pacifism and non-violence; contemporary just war theory.

Past Visitors

Visiting Fellow, ELAC

Research interests: The role of human rights and democracy in determining the participation of states in international organisations, The Commonwealth and human rights, International Humanitarian Law, Military Law.

Visiting Fellow, ELAC

Visiting Fellow, ELAC 2012

Research interests: International law, specifically international criminal law and international humanitarian law, international legal theory.

Visiting Fellow, ELAC 2012

Visiting Fellow, ELAC 2012

Visiting Fellow, ELAC 2012

Research interests: complicity in international crimes and the interplay between state and individual responsibility, responsibility to prevent genocide, substantive and procedural international criminal law, legal ethics.

Visiting Fellow, ELAC 2011

Research interests: Peace- and state building, reconciliation/conflict resolution and practical application of social psychology.

Visiting Fellow, ELAC 2011

Research Interests: International Humanitarian Law; International Criminal Law; Weapons Law

Visiting Fellow, ELAC 2010-11

Research interests: International criminal law, execution of penalties pronounced by international criminal jurisdictions and the applicability of human rights.

Visiting Fellow, ELAC 2009-2010

Research interests: Nuclear Non-Proliferation, International Law and Use of Force, Human Rights Law, International Relations Theory.

Visiting Fellow, ELAC 2009

Research interests: Accountability of international organisations; Arms control and disarmament; Interplay between domestic and international law. uclear Non-Proliferation, International Law and Use of Force, Human Rights Law, International Relations Theory.

Research Associates

Professorial Research Fellow and Co-Director of the Centre for International Intervention, University of Surrey

Research Associate in International Relations, Centre for International Studies

Professor in Political Theory, University of Oxford

Hedley Bull Research Fellow, Politics and International Relations, Oxford

Fellow in Philosophy, Lincoln College Oxford

Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Kent

Research Fellow, Intelligent Interaction Group, Delft University of Technology

Professor of Law, S.J. Quinney College of Law, University of Utah

Montague Burton Professor of International Relations, University of Oxford

Research Fellow,School of Philosophy, Australian National University, Canberra

Professor of Law and Philosophy, Georgetown University

Professor of Philosophy, Rutgers University

Senior Research Associate, Centre for International Studies

Legal Advisor, Norwegian Red Cross

Professor of International Relations, The European University Institute, Florence

Senior Research Fellow at Merton and Professor of Politics and International Relations

Assistant Professor of Philosophy, U.S. Naval Postgraduate School

Past Associates

Royal Navy and Visiting Fellow, Programme on the Changing Character of War. ELAC Research Associate 2010-11

Dean of the Law Faculty and Professor of Legal Philosophy, University of Oxford. ELAC Research Associate 2009-12

Professor of Philosophy, Pacific Lutheran University

Professor of Law, University of Alabama, ELAC Research Associate 2012

University of Glasgow. Visiting Fellow, Balliol College and ELAC Research Associate Trinity Term 2010

United States Navy. ELAC Research Associate 2009-2010

Professor of Law & Philosophy , Walter F. George School of Law, Mercer University, ELAC Research Associate 2012

United States Navy. ELAC Research Associate 2010-11