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.

Administrator, ELAC

Visiting Fellows

Visiting Fellow, ELAC

Visiting Fellow, ELAC and Associate Professor, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Visiting Fellow, ELAC

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

Visiting Fellow, ELAC and Political Affairs Officer, UNAMI Baghdad

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

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

Visiting Fellow, ELAC and Associate Humanitarian Affairs Officer, UN OCHA, Chad

Past Visitors

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

Junior Research Fellow in Socio-Legal Studies, Wolfson College

Fellow in Philosophy, Lincoln College Oxford

Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Kent

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 Philosophy, Rutgers University

Senior Research Associate, Centre for International Studies

Legal Advisor, Norwegian Red Cross

Associate Professor of Law, Walter F. George School of Law, Mercer University

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

Professor of Law, University of Alabama

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

United States Navy. ELAC Research Associate 2009-2010

United States Navy. ELAC Research Associate 2010-11