16/11: 'Divorcing Europe' - Interview with the BBC Radio 4's Analysis programme on a possible withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union more>>

28/10: Review of my book Kollektive Nichtanerkennung illegaler Staaten by Jochen von Bernstorff and Volker Roeben in American Journal of International Law, 103 (2009), pp. 614-616

22/10: 'Joint and Several Responsibility in Multinational Military Operations', Presentation at the Expert Seminar on 'Responsibility in Multinational Military Operations' at the Swedish National Defence College, Stockholm, Sweden more>>

07/10: Start of my new M.Phil. student Kubo Macak from Slovakia who works on 'Internationalization of Armed Conflicts'

03/10: Farewell Event for my student, Antonios Tzanakopoulos, celebrating the successful completion of his doctorate pictures>>

24/08: Publication of 'The Responsibility of Outside Powers for the Acts of Secessionist Entities' in International and Comparative Law Quarterly, 58 (2999), pp. 493-517 more>>

13/08: Publication of The Legal Order of the Oceans: Basic Documents on the Law of the Sea, edited together with Vaughan Lowe (Oxford: Hart, 2009) more>>

28/07: Judgment in R (on the application of KTHY and CTA Holidays) v Secretary of State for Transport, [2009] EWHC 1918 (Admin) more>>

07/07: Foreign Service Programme Dinner at the Residence of the Ambassador of Indonesia to the United Kingdom, London

24/06: Publication of 'The Constitutive versus the Declaratory Doctrine of Recognition: Tertium Non Datur?' in Malcolm Evans and Patrick Capps (eds.), The International Library of Essays in Law and Legal Theory (2nd Series), International Law (Farnham: Ashgate, 2009), volume II, pp. 93-173

19/06: Publication of 'Revisiting the Rule of Law: Law-making and Law-changing by the UN Security Council', in: Jan Wouters, Edith Drieskens and Sven Biscop (eds.), Belgium in the Security Council: Reflections on the 2007-2008 Membership (Antwerp: Intersentia, 2009), pp. 41-49

10/05: 'Shi`ites Plan to Take Saudi Clerics to Int`l Court', Interview with The Media Line, the MidEast News Source, on the question of trying Saudi clerics for crimes against humanity before an international tribunal

27/03: 'The Security Council and the Rule of Law', Panellist at the 103rd Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law, Washington DC, USA

15-17/04: Annual Meeting of the German Society of International Law, Munich

15/03: 'Who Defends the Interests of Mankind in the Delineation of the Outer Continental Shelf', Presentation at the University of California School of Law, Boalt Hall, Berkeley, USA  more>>

26/02: Invitation to join the Executive Committee of the Anuario Mexicano de Derecho Internacional/Mexican Yearbook of International Law

26/02: Publication of 'The Recognition of the Chinese Government and the Convention on International Civil Aviation', in Chinese Journal of International Law, 8 (2009), pp. 135-159 more>>

15/01: 'Die Zypern-Frage oder Hauskrach bei Aphrodite [The Cyprus Question of Domestic Feud at Aphrodite`s]', Lecture at the Christian-Albrechts-University, Kiel, Germany more>>

08/01: Publication of 'Participation of UN Member States in the Work of the Organization: A Multicultural Alternative to Present-Day Regionalism?', in: Sienho Yee and Jacques-Yvan Morin (eds.), Multiculturalism and International Law: Essays in Honour of Edward McWhinney (Leiden: Brill, 2009), pp. 239-275 more>>

13/01: Invitation to become joint editor with Professor Dan Sarooshi of the 10th edition of Oppenheim's International Law, volume I: Peace, to be published by Oxford University Press

01/01: Season's Greetings and a Happy New Year! more>>

2008

15/12: Season's Greetings and a Happy New Year! more >>

06/12: 'The Role of Treaties', Presentation at the conference 'Transatlantic Dialogue on International Law: Preparing for the Next U.S. Administration, jointly organized by The Atlantic Council of the United States and Chatham House, London

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15/11: Publication of 'Der Anti-Terror-Kampf der USA und die Grundrechte [The US War on Terrorism and German Constitutional Basic Rights], in: Axel Kämmerer (ed.), An den Grenzen des Staates (Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 2008), pp. 75-100  more >>

03/11: Invitation to become co-editor of the series 'Oxford Monographs in International Law' published by Oxford University Press (together with Vaughan Lowe and Dan Sarooshi)

28/10: Review of Kollektive Nichtanerkennung illegaler Staaten by Maria Gavouneli in Revue Hellénique de Droit International, 59 (2006), pp. 795-797  more >>

28/10: Interview with BBC Radio Four's Law in Action programme on 'Rockall'

01/10: Review of Kollektive Nichtanerkennung illegaler Staaten by Tullio Treves in Rivista di diritto internazionale privato e processuale, 44 (2008), pp. 636-637

29/09: Publication of 'A Plurality of Responsible Actors: International Responsibility for the Acts of the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq', in: Phil Shiner/Andrew Williams (eds.),  The Iraq War and International Law (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2008), pp. 185-230. more>>

25/09: 'The International Lawyer as Practitioner: Between Law and Politics', Lunchtime lecture to the Mentoring & More Program of the Moritz College of Law, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA

15/09: 'Kosovo, Abkhazia and South Ossetia: Is There a Difference?', Presentation at the law faculty colloquium, St. John's University School of Law, Queens, New York, USA

18/08 -26/09: Visiting Professor at the Moritz College of Law, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA

01/08: Invitation to join 20 Essex Street Chambers

28/07: The Distinctions Committee of the University of Oxford confers on me the title of 'Professor of Public International Law'

13/06: The Social Sciences Divisional Board of the University of Oxford approves my reappointment by the Faculty of Law from 1 April 2008 to the retiring age (tenure)

28/05: Invitation to serve as Director of Studies at The Hague Academy of International Law during the public international law section in the summer of 2011

24/05: Wedding Bells are ringing at the English Church in the Spa Gardens in Bad Wildbad

15/05: 'Legal Obstacles to the Recognition of Kosovo?', Presentation to the British Branch of the International Society for Military Law and the Law of War, Defence Academy of the United Kingdom, Shrivenham

29/04: Publication of 'Internationales Recht und die Zukunft des Multilateralismus [International Law and the Future of Multilateralism], in epd Dokumentation, No 19/20, 29 April 2008, pp. 27-35  more>>

15/04: 'The Various Control Tests and the Responsibility of Outside Powers for Acts of Secessionist Entities', Keynote address at the International Conference on Basic Principles for the Settlement of the Conflicts on the Territories of the GUAM States, organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Baku, Azerbaijan  more>>

20/03: Review of Kollektive Nichtanerkennung illegaler Staaten by Natalie Wohlleben in Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft, 17 (2007), pp. 1425-1426

08/03: Participation in a roundtable discussion on the protection of persons in the event of disasters with Eduardo Valencia-Ospina, ILC Special Rapporteur on the Protection of Persons in the Event of Disasters, Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge

28/02: 'Kosovo: To Recognize or Not to Recognize – That is the Question', Presentation at the 'Rapid Response' seminar on the unilateral declaration of independence and recognition of Kosovo at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law, London more >>

26/02: 'How to Start Your Own Country in Four Easy Steps', Interview with Foreign Policy magazine, Washington DC on the unilateral declaration of independence and recognition of Kosovo more >>

22/02: Review of Kollektive Nichtanerkennung illegaler Staaten by Beatriz Maldonado Simán in Anuario Mexicano de Derecho Internacional, 8 (2008), pp. 831-833 more >>

19/02: Radio interview with the BBC World Update programme (presenter Jo Fidgen) on the legal questions raised by the unilateral declaration of independence of Kosovo

17/02: Review of Kollektive Nichtanerkennung illegaler Staaten by Altana Filos in Cyprus Review, 19/2 (2007), pp. 143-148

15/02: 'Internationales Recht und die Zukunft des Multilateralismus' [International Law and the Future of Multilateralism], Presentation at the conference "... für gerechten Frieden sorgen": Die neue Friedensdenkschrift der EKD in der Diskussion ["... to create a just peace": The New Memorandum on Peace of the Evangelical Church in Germany in the Discussion], Evangelische Akademie zu Berlin, Germany  more>>

15/01: Radio interview with Radio 6PR Perth, Australia, on the legal questions raised by the holding of two conservation group members on a Japanese whaling ship

10/01: Review of Kollektive Nichtanerkennung illegaler Staaten by Christian Heinze in Bayerische Verwaltungsblätter, 139 (2008), p. 32

2007

24/12: Season's Greetings and a Happy New Year!

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06 + 10/12: 'Rule-making and Rule-changing by the Security Council', Lectures at the International Maritime Law Institute and the Faculty of Law, University of Malta, Msida, Malta more>>

02/12: Review of La non reconnaissance collective des Etats illégaux by Baptiste Tranchant in Revue Générale de Droit International Public, 111 (2007), p. 727

19/11: 'The Security Council as a New Source of Law', Lecture at the University of Leeds, School of Law, Centre for International Governance, Leeds

12/11: Review of Kollektive Nichtanerkennung illegaler Staaten by Alexander Orakhelashvili in International and Comparative Law Quarterly, 56 (2007) more>>

17/10: 'Evidence in the International Court of Justice', Participation in the Evidence Project Discussion Seminar of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law, London more>>

06/10: 'Democratizing Globalization: Achieving Key Reforms', Presentation and session chair at the Workshop on Democratic Control of International Organizations, Stanford Law School, Palo Alto, CA, USA

01/10: I am on sabbatical in MT 2007

24/09: Lecture on 'Territorial Sovereignty and Land Boundaries', International Lawyers for Africa, SJ Berwin LLP, London more>>

30/08: Review of Kollektive Nichtanerkennung illegaler Staaten by Jan Christoph Nemitz in Chinese Journal of International Law, 6 (2007) more >>

26/07: Called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn

20/07: Review of Kollektive Nichtanerkennung illegaler Staaten by Robert Kolb in Journal du droit international 134 (2007), pp. 742-744 ('Il en découle un texte d'une densité et d'une richesse rares. [...] L`auteur comble ainsi une lacune importante. [...] Pour le reste, il est impossible ici de faire plus que de renvoyer le lecteur à l'étude de cet ouvrage de grande envergure et de haute tenue intellectuelle.')

05/07: Colloquium presentation at Humboldt University, Berlin

30/06: Colloquium for doctoral students at St Anne's College

13/06: Member of the NORFACE International Review Panel assessing proposals on 'Transforming Europe – the Consequences of Globalisation'

10/06: First review of Kollektive Nichtanerkennung illegaler Staaten by Frank Hoffmeister in German Yearbook of International Law, 49 (2006), pp. 731-734 ('The treatise is a masterpiece full of thoroughly researched material, new ideas and respectable conclusions.')

07/06: 'Private Enforcement of International Humanitarian Law against Israeli Officials in Foreign Domestic Courts', Talk at the International Conference 'Forty Years after 1967: Reappraising the Role and Limits of the Legal Discourse on Occupation in the Israeli-Palestinian Context, Jerusalem and Tel-Aviv, Israel  more >>

24/05: Nomination as UK member on the ILA International Committee on Non-State Actors    more >>

20/05: Finally published: La non-reconnaissance collective des Etats illégaux (Paris: A. Pedone, 2007). 115 pp. (Series: Université Panthéon-Assas, Institut des Hautes Etudes Internationales, Cours et Travaux, No. 9).  more >>

15/05: Invitation to serve as member of an International Review Panel for NORFACE to evaluate proposals within the theme 'Transforming Europe - the Consequences of Globalization'  more >>

12/05: Invitation to serve as external reviewer for the Cluster of Excellence 'Future Ocean' of Kiel University, the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences IfM-GEOMAR and the Leibniz Institute for the World Economy

10/05: Markus Volz, my first doctoral student, has his doctoral thesis on 'Extraterritoriale Terrorismus-bekämpfung' published by Duncker & Humlot, Berlin

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04/05: 'International Responsibility for the Acts of the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq', Lunchtime lecture at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, Cambridge more >>

26/04: 'Collective Non-Recognition as a Third Party Countermeasure', Lunchtime lecture, Oxford Public International Law Discussion Group more >>

20/04: Invitation to serve as external examiner at the IMO International Maritime Law Institute, Malta

15/04: ΣΤΕΦΕΝ ΤΑΛΜΟΝ: «Το Διεθνές Δίκαιο εμπόδιο για τη λύση του Κυπριακού» [Stefan Talmon: 'International Law as a Stumbling-Block to a Solution of the Cyprus Problem'], Interview with Greek daily newspaper Eleftherotypia, Sunday edition, page 23  English translation >>

14/04: 'UN groupings and multiculturalism', Presentation at the XJTU Silk Road Institute Seminar on 'Multiculturalism and International Law', Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China more >>

09/03: 'International Law as a Stumbling Block to a Solution of the Cyprus Problem', Talk at the invitation of the Association for Cypriot, Greek & Turkish Affairs, European Institute, London School of Economics  more >>

05/03: International and European Perspectives on the Security Council, Presentation and Panel Discussion at the Conference on 'The Security Council anno 2007' organized by the United Nations Association Flanders Belgium, Brussels  more >>

08/02: Invitation to serve as external assessor for the appointment of a Chair in the Law of the Sea at Kiel University, Germany

08/02: St. Anne's College covered in snow

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02/01: Finally published: Kollektive Nichtanerkennung illegaler Staaten. Grundlagen und Folgen einer international koordinierten Sanktion, dargestellt am Beispiel der Türkischen Republik Nord-Zypern [Collective Non-recognition of Illegal States. Legal Foundations and Consequences of an Internationally Co-ordinated Sanction With Particular Reference to the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus] (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2006). XXXIX, 1052 pp. (Series: Jus Publicum 154).

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01/01: Season's Greetings and a Happy New Year!

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2006

05/12: 'The EU-Turkey Controversy over Cyprus or a Tale of Two Declarations', article published in Chinese Journal of International Law 5 (2006), pp. 579-616. more >>

15/11: 'Chypre: écueil pour la Turquie sur la voie de l`Europe', article published in Annuaire français de droit international 51 (2005), pp. 85-119 more >>

30/10: 'The Security Council as World Legislator', talk at the Mershon Center for International Security Studies at The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, for a streaming video of this presentation see more >>

26/10: Moritz law talk on 'Legislative Remodeling of Societies: U.S. Occupation Law in Iraq', The Ohio State University College of Law, Columbus, Ohio, for an archived audio file of this talk see more >>

04/09 - 15/10: Visiting Fellow at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

11/08: 'The Law of the Sea: From Freedom to Regulation', paper delivered at the Joint Studies Institute hosted by the British and Irish Association of Law Librarians, St Anne's College, Oxford

06/07: Conferment of the title 'Reader in Public International Law' in the Recognition of Distinction Exercise 2006

01/06: 'Article 23' and 'Article 43', commentaries in: Zimmermann/Tomuschat/Oellers-Frahm (eds.), The Statute of the International Court of Justice (Oxford: OUP, 2006) - Art. 43 more >> Art. 23 more >>

11/05: Diplomacy Guest Lecture on 'The Cyprus Conflict in International Law' at the Oxford University Department of Continuing Education

21/04: Presentation on 'The US War against Terrorism and Basic Constitutional Rights' at the Faculty of Law, Göttingen University

16/03: Visiting Professor at the University Paris II for one month. Seminar series on 'Collective non-recognition of illegal States'

27/02: 'Diplomacy Under Occupation: The Status of Diplomatic Missions in Occupied Iraq', article published in Anuario Mexicano de Derecho Internacional, 6 (2006) more >>

17/01: 'The Constitute versus the Declaratory Theory of Recognition: Tertium Non Datur?', article published in the British Year Book of International Law 2004 (2005) more >>

10/01: 'The Duty Not to "Recognize as Lawful" a Situation Created by the Illegal Use of Force or Other Serious Breaches of a Jus Cogens Obligation: An Obligation Without Real Substance?, book chapter published in The Fundamental Rules of the International Legal Order (2005) more >>