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Dapo Akande
Position - Co-Director and Co-Founder, ELAC | Co-Convenor, The Oxford Process
Dapo Akande is the Chichele Professor of Public International Law, a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford and Co-Director of the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict (ELAC). He is a Member of the United Nations ... Read more
Federica D’Alessandra
Position - Deputy Director, ELAC | Director, Oxford Programme on International Peace and Security (IPS)
Federica D’Alessandra is the Deputy Director of the Institute for Ethics, Law, and Armed Conflict (ELAC), and founding Executive Director of the Oxford Programme on International Peace and Security at the Blavatnik School of ... Read more
Janina Dill
Position - Co-Director, ELAC | Co-Convener, Ethics, Law and Nuclear Deterrence
Janina Dill is the Dame Louise Richardson Chair in Global Security and a Professor at the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford. She is also a Fellow at Trinity College and Co-Director of the Oxford Institute for ... Read more
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Current members
Katie Cooper
Position - Research Projects Manager
Katie Cooper is the Project Officer for the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict (ELAC) where she is responsible for the overall administration of the interdisciplinary research programme. Katie is also the Senior ... Read more
Tsvetelina van Benthem
Position - Research Officer
Tsvetelina is a DPhil candidate in public international law at Merton College. Her DPhil, supervised by Professor Dapo Akande, focuses on the regulation of accidents and mistakes under the law of armed conflict and international ... Read more
Gwendolyn Whidden
Position - Research and Policy Officer
Gwendolyn is a DPhil candidate in International Relations at the University of Oxford, where she received an MPhil in International Relations in 2022. Her doctoral research examines under what conditions the UN Security Council ... Read more
David Rodin
Position - Co-Founder
David Rodin is a leading authority on the ethics of war and conflict. He is a Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs in New York and Senior Research Fellow at the University of Oxford. His ... Read more
Jennifer Welsh
Position - Steering Committee Member and Co-Founder
Jennifer M. Welsh is the Canada 150 Research Chair in Global Governance and Security at McGill University (Montreal, Canada). She was previously Professor and Chair in International Relations at the European University Institute ... Read more
Miles Jackson
Position - Steering Committee Member
Miles Jackson is an Associate Professor of Law at the Faculty of Law and a Fellow of Jesus College. He holds MA and DPhil degrees from the University of Oxford, an LLM degree from Harvard Law School, and an LLB from the University of ... Read more
Jeff McMahan
Position - Steering Committee Member
Jeff McMahan is the White’s Professor of Moral Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy, University of Oxford. He is also Professorial Fellow, Corpus Christi College. Read more
Tom Simpson
Position - Steering Committee Member
Tom Simpson is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford, and a Senior Research Fellow at Wadham College. He is an AHRC/BBC Radio 3 New Generation Thinker for ... Read more
Hugo Slim
Position - Steering Committee Member and Senior Research Fellow
Hugo Slim specializes in the study of ethics, war and humanitarian aid and is leading ELAC’s Red Cross funded research on the 21st century battlefield and humanitarian response. This is his second fellowship at ELAC where he ... Read more
Emanuela-Chiara Gillard
Position - Senior Research Fellow
Emanuela-Chiara Gillard is a Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict and an Associate Fellow in Chatham House’s International Law Programme. From 2007 to 2012 she was Chief of the Protection ... Read more
Duncan B. Hollis
Position - Co-Convenor, The Oxford Process
Duncan B. Hollis is Laura H. Carnell Professor of Law at Temple Law School and a co-convenor of The Oxford Process on International Law Protections in Cyberspace. His scholarship engages with issues of international law, ... Read more
Stephen Rapp
Position - Senior Visiting Fellow of Practice
Stephen Rapp is Senior Visiting Fellow of Practice with the Blavatnik School’s Institute for Ethics, Law, and Armed Conflict’s Programme on International Peace and Security. At the Blavatnik School, he is co-leading – with Federica ... Read more
Talita Dias
Position - Research Fellow
Dr Talita Dias is the Senior Research Fellow on Chatham House's International Law Programme, as well as a Research Fellow with ELAC. Pior to that, she was the Shaw Foundation Junior Research Fellow in Law at Jesus College ... Read more
Julie Fraser
Position - Visiting Fellow
Dr Julie Fraser is a Visiting Scholar at the Blavatnik School of Government, affiliated with the Institute for Ethics, Law, and Armed Conflict and the Oxford Programme on International Peace and Security. In this capacity, Dr Fraser ... Read more
Ross James Gildea
Position - Visiting Scholar
Dr Ross James Gildea is a Visiting Scholar at the Blavatnik School of Government. He is affiliated to the Oxford Programme on International Peace and Security, at the Institute for Ethics, Law, and Armed Conflict. At the Blavatnik ... Read more
Alexandra Martin
Position - Visiting Fellow of Practice
Alexandra Martin is a Visiting Fellow of Practice at the Blavatnik School’s Institute for Ethics, Law, and Armed Conflict’s Programme on International Peace and Security. She works with Federica D’Alessandra on a new research and ... Read more
Brianna Rosen
Position - Visiting Fellow of Practice
Brianna Rosen is a Visiting Fellow of Practice with our Programme on International Peace and Security, where she also previously served as Policy Engagement Manager from 2020 to 2021. She is also a Senior Fellow at Just ... Read more
Priya Urs
Position - Research Fellow
Dr Priya Urs is a Junior Research Fellow in Law at St John’s College, University of Oxford and a Research Fellow at ELAC. She holds a PhD in Law from University College London, a Master of Law from the University of Cambridge, and a ... Read more
Kirsty Sutherland
Position - Visiting Fellow of Practice
Kirsty is a barrister at 9 Bedford Row, specialising in international criminal law and military law. Her academic background is in philosophy and anthropology, and she is an MPP candidate at the Blavatnik School of Government. Her ... Read more
Taha T. A. Almasri
Position - Research Assistant
Taha T. A. Almasri is a Bachelor of Civil Law (B.C.L. Oxon) graduate, Lord Denning Residential Scholar at the Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn, first-class law graduate from the London School of Economics and Rapporteur for Oxford ... Read more
Elise Shea
Position - Research Assistant
Elise Shea is supporting ELAC Deputy Director Federica D’Alessandra in exploring the UN accountability mandates in international justice. In particular, Elise will investigate the value of a centralised investigative support function ... Read more
Max H. Watson
Position - Research Assistant
Max Watson is a Research Assistant at the Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict (ELAC) and the Programme on International Peace and Security (IPS). His work with ELAC/IPS under the direction of ELAC Co-Director Federica ... Read more
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