College of Law
Iain Scobbie
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Key information
Key information
- Roles
- College of Law Senior Teaching Fellow
- Department
- College of Law
- Qualifications
- LLB (Edinburgh), LLB (Cantab), GDIL (ANU), PhD (Cantab)
- Building
- Senate House
- Office
- S225
- Email address
- is17@soas.ac.uk
Biography
Professor Scobbie studied at the Universities of Edinburgh and Cambridge, and at the Australian National University.
His doctoral dissertation examined legal reasoning and the judicial function in the International Court. Professor Scobbie maintains a special interest in international humanitarian law; international adjudication, particularly the role of the International Court of Justice; and in the theory of international law.
He is on the International Advisory Council of Diakonia's International Humanitarian Law Programme, which is based in Jerusalem. He is also a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the European Journal of International Law, and an editor of the EJIL: Talk! blog.
