Iain Scobbie
About/Bio
Iain Scobbie is Professor of Public International Law at the University of Manchester, Co-Director of the Manchester International Law Centre, and Visiting Professor of International Law at SOAS, University of London, where he was previously the Sir Joseph Hotung Research Professor in Law, Human Rights, and Peace Building in the Middle East. He studied at the Universities of Edinburgh and Cambridge, and at the Australian National University.
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Francis Lieber Prize
October 8, 2010
Iain Scobbie
Nominations may now be made for the Francis Lieber Prize, awarded annually to an outstanding published (or to be published) work in the field of law and armed conflict by an author aged 35 years or younger at the time of submission. The Francis Lieber Prize is awarded annually by the American Society of International Law's…
At rest
October 5, 2010
Iain Scobbie
Shabtai Rosenne, who died in Jerusalem on 21 September 2010 aged 93, was one of the last of the generation of distinguished international lawyers who studied before or during the early years of World War II. I can only think of two remaining survivors in the English-speaking world—Benjamin Ferencz and Leslie Green. This is a club which even Sir Eli…
On the road to Avila? A Response to Koskenniemi
May 20, 2009
Iain Scobbie
Professor Iain Scobbie, is the Sir Joseph Hotung Research Professor in Law, Human Rights and Peace Building in the Middle East, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London The burden of Professor Koskenniemi’s article appears to bear an uncanny likeness to St Teresa of Avila’s aphorism that answered…
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Popular articles by Iain Scobbie
Justice Levy’s Legal Tinsel: The Recent Israeli Report on the Status of the West Bank and Legality of the Settlements
September 6, 2012
Iain Scobbie
In February 2012, the Israeli government appointed a commission, headed by former Supreme Court Justice Levy, to “examine the status of building in Judea and Samaria”—in other words, to examine the legality of settlements, whether authorised by the Israeli government or not, in the West Bank. On 9 July 2012, the Commission’s report was released. The report is…
Prolonged Occupation and Article 6(3) of the Fourth Geneva Convention: Why the International Court Got It Wrong Substantively and Procedurally
June 16, 2015
Iain Scobbie
I recently gave a paper on prolonged occupation at a UN Roundtable on Legal Aspects of the Question of Palestine. In the law of armed conflict, the notion of “prolonged occupation” is absent from the governing international instruments. It has been little discussed in commentaries, and Adam Roberts cautions that attempting to define…
In Bed with Alcibiades: Theory and Doctoral research
January 4, 2013
Iain Scobbie
Douglas Guilfoyle has published a couple of very useful practical pieces here on the process of doing a PhD in international law (here and here). Professor Andrea Bianchi recently asked me to speak to the new law research students at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva on the importance of theory in…