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Dapo Akande
Position - Co-Director and Co-Founder, ELAC | Co-Convenor, The Oxford Process
Dapo Akande Dapo Akande is Professor of Public International Law, Fellow of Exeter College (since April 2018) and Co-Director of the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict (ELAC). From 2012 to 2017 he was Co-Director ... Read more
Federica D’Alessandra
Position - Deputy Director, ELAC | Executive 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 John G. Winant Professor of U.S. Foreign Policy at the Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR) of the University of Oxford. She is also a Professorial Fellow at Nuffield College and Co-Director of ... Read more
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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
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
Priya Urs
Position - Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Dr Priya Urs is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict, where her research addresses the applicability of international law to cyber operations. Her wider research interests include ... Read more
Antonio Coco
Position - Visiting Scholar
Antonio Coco is a Visiting Scholar at the Blavatnik School of Government and a Junior Research Fellow at St Peter’s College, Oxford. He joined the University of Oxford in 2017 as Departmental Lecturer in Law. In January 2020, he was ... Read more
Hugo Slim
Position - 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
Katie Cooper
Position - Project Officer
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
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
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
Stephen Damianos
Position - Research Assistant
Stephen is a doctoral candidate at the University of Oxford, where he works under Professor Alexander Betts at the Refugee Studies Centre. His ethnographic research examines stereotype threat, criminality and the demonization of ... Read more
Lindsay Freeman
Position - Visiting Fellow of Practice
Lindsay Freeman is a US-qualified lawyer specialised in international criminal, humanitarian and human rights law. She is the Director of Law and Policy for the Technology and Human Rights Program at the Human Rights Center, UC ... Read more
Cecilia Jacob
Position - Visiting Fellow
Cecilia Jacob is Associate Professor and Deputy Head in the Department of International Relations at the Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, The Australian National University. Her work focuses on the global governance of human ... 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
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
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
Kristoffer Lidén
Position - Visiting Fellow
Kristoffer Lidén is a Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict and a Senior Researcher at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) where he leads the Research Group on Law and Ethics. He is also ... 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
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
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
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
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
Cheyney Ryan
Position - Senior Research Fellow
Cheyney Ryan has been a fellow of Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict (ELAC) since 2010, and before that was a fellow of the Oxford Changing Character of War Program. He is director of ELAC’s human rights programs, ... 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
Summia Tora
Position - Visiting Scholar
Summia Tora is the founder of Dosti Network, an organisation focused on providing Afghans access to resources and information to flee persecution and access global support networks. In August 2020 after the fall of the Afghan ... Read more
Sareta Ashraph
Position - Visiting Fellow of Practice
Sareta Ashraph is a barrister specialised in international criminal and humanitarian law. She is currently a Senior Legal Consultant on projects directed towards furthering accountability efforts for crimes committed in Syria and ... Read more
Jennifer Welsh
Position - Co-Founder
Jennifer M. Welsh is the incoming 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 ... 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
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