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Yemen's Uncertain Future Threatens Regional StabilityYemen's Uncertain Future Threatens Regional Stability
Wednesday 19 November 2008
Yemen presents a 'perfect storm' of problems for Western governments confronting the prospect of state failure in this strategically...

Key Foreign Policy Issues Facing Barack ObamaKey Foreign Policy Issues Facing Barack Obama
Wednesday 5 November 2008
Chatham House experts offer their perspectives on the key foreign policy and economic challenges facing the new administration. The following...

Economic Crisis May Need More 'Out of the Box' MeasuresEconomic Crisis May Need More 'Out of the Box' Measures
Wednesday 15 October 2008
A new paper by Chatham House says that the once-in-a-century economic meltdown means that OECD countries' simultaneous collapse in...

Yemen: Fear of Failure
November, 2008
Yemen presents a potent combination of problems for policy-makers confronting the prospect of state failure in this strategically important...

NATO: Back to the Future?
November, 2008
This is a transcript of a speech given by Dr Paul Cornish, Head International Security Programme and Carrington Chair...

Ukraine’s Political Crisis: The Domestic and Foreign Policy Implications of the Georgia Conflict
November, 2008
This is a summary of a meeting held at Chatham House on 10 October 2008.

The Potential Contribution of Biofuels to Sustainable Development and a Low-carbon Future
October, 2008
This paper is informed by a roundtable workshop held at Chatham House in April 2008 to discuss practical policy...

 

 

Elizabeth Wilmshurst, CMG

 Elizabeth Wilmshurst, CMG

Associate Fellow, International Law

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Fax:+44 (0)20 7957 5710
Contact:

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Expertise

International Law:

  • The use of force
  • International criminal law including the international criminal court
  • The law of the United Nations and its organs
  • Consular and diplomatic law
  • State and sovereign immunity
  • International humanitarian law

Projects

  • Enforcement of international standards on companies by civil litigation
  • Monthly international law discussion group

Experience

2003-Date Visiting Professor, University College, London University
1999-Apr 2003 Deputy Legal Adviser, Foreign & Commonwealth Office
1994-1999 Legal Counsellor at United Kingdom Misson to the United Nations, New York, then in the Foreign & Commonwealth Office
1990-1994 Legal Counsellor, Foreign & Commonwealth Office
1986-1990 Assistant Legal Adviser, then Legal Counsellor, Attorney General's Office
1974-1986 Assistant Legal Adviser, then Legal Counsellor at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office
1972 Lecturer, Bristol University

Broadcast Experience

Some

Languages

French, German (not for broadcast)