Prof. Stephan Talmon
Prof Dr Stefan Talmon, LLM MA is Professor of Public Law, Public International Law and European Law, and Co-Director of the Institute of Public International Law at the University of Bonn. He is also a Supernumerary Fellow of St Anne’s College, Oxford. From 2003 to 2011 he was Lecturer, Reader and Professor of Public International Law in the University of Oxford, and a Tutorial Fellow of St Anne’s College, Oxford. He also practices as a Barrister from 20 Essex Street Chambers in London. He has published seven books and more than 50 articles on public international law. He regularly advises clients on matters of international law and has appeared before the International Court of Justice, the European Court of Human Rights and various domestic courts.
H.E. Judge Peter Tomka
Judge Tomka is Member of the Court since 6 February 2003 and Vice-President of the Court since 6 February 2009. He received his LL.M. (summa cum laude), Doctor iuris (international law) and Ph.D. in International Law from Charles University, Prague. Judge Tomka is a senior diplomat and served as Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Slovakia to the United Nations (1999-2003). He publishes extensively and is author of a doctoral thesis on the Codification of International Law (Charles University, Prague, 1984) and of a series of articles on various important topics of international law .
Prof. Francis Snyder
Prof. Francis Snyder is C.V. Starr Professor of Law and Co-Director, Center for Research on Transnational Law, EU Jean Monnet Chair ad personam, Peking University School of Transnational Law; Visiting Professor (formerly Centennial Professor), London School of Economics. He earned a J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1968 and a PhD from Université de Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne in 1969. His research interests include WTO law and international economic law; EU external relations, customs law and international trade law; anti-dumping law; international and domestic regulation of food safety and technical standards; constitutional law of the European Union. He is author of many books and articles of international law.
Prof. Hanspeter Neuhold
Prof. Hanspeter Neuhold is professor of public international Law and International Relations at the School of Law of the University of Vienna. He also teaches at the Vienna Diplomatic Academy and directs the postgraduate Master of Advanced International Studies (M.A.I.S.) program offered jointly by the University of Vienna and the Diplomatic Academy. Prof. Neuhold studied law and International Relations at the Universities of Vienna (Doctorate) and Paris (Diploma of the Institut des hautes études internationales). He taught, inter alia, as guest professor at Carleton University (Ottowa), Stanford University and Leiden University. From 1988 to 1996, Prof. Neuhold was Director of the Austrian Institute for International Affairs. Since 1996, he is head of the Department of Public International Law.
Professor V. S. Mani
Professor V. S. Mani is currently the Director of the School of Law and Governance of Jaipur National University. In 2003, he was elected Executive President of the Indian Society of International Law, New Delhi. Professor Mani has had more than 35 years of teaching and research experience. He was a Visiting Professor in, Tokyo University (2000) and the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences (2001) and Visiting Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Germany (2003). He delivered lectures at The Hague Academy of International Law in August 2005. Professor Mani was also directly involved in organising Nauru's victorious case against Australia before the International Court of Justice (1986-93).
Prof. Paulo Canelas de Castro
Prof. Castro is currently Coordinator of the Master’s in European Union Law, International Law and Comparative Law, and Jean Monnet Chairholder, the Faculty of Law, University of Macau. He had his Post-graduation in both International Relations and European Community Law from the Institut Européen des Hautes Etudes Internationales, Nice, France. He is visiting professor in various law schools across the world and is author of many papers in international law.
Professor Tony Carty
Professor Carty is now the holder of the Sir Y K Pao Chair of Public Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Hong Kong. Professor Carty studied law at Queen's University Belfast, London, and Cambridge. He has worked at the University of Paris, the Max Planck Institute in Heidelberg and has lectured at Edinburgh University and Glasgow University, and has held visiting positions at Max Planck Institute for European Legal History, the University of Tokyo and the Autonomous University of Madrid. Prof. Carty’s major research fields are theory of international law, human rights, the theory of autonomous regions, law and development, law and literature and legal philosophy. He is author of many academic works.
