Guglielmo Verdirame

Guglielmo Verdirame (born Reggio di Calabria, Italy) is a University Lecturer in law at the University of Cambridge, a Fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, and a barrister at 20 Essex Street Chambers, London.

He is a leading expert on public international law with additional interests in political philosophy, and constitutional law.

Before coming to Cambridge, he was a Junior Research Fellow at Merton College, Oxford between 2000-2003. He holds a Ph.D. in law from the London School of Economics, where he studied with Christine Chinkin, an LL.M. from the School of Oriental and African Studies, and a laurea in jurisprudence from the Università degli Studi di Bologna.

In the summer of 2006 Dr Verdirame was Director of Studies at the Hague Academy of International Law and in the spring of 2007 he was a Visiting Fellow at Harvard Law School.

Dr Verdirame is co-chair of the Board of Trustees of Africa and Middle East Refugee Assistance (AMERA). He has conducted extensive field research on human rights and refugees in Africa, particularly in Kenya, during his time as a research officer at the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford, as well as on behalf of various human rights organisations, including Human Rights Watch, Article 19 and the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights.

His book, coauthored with Barbara Harrell-Bond, "Rights in Exile: Janus-faced Humanitarianism" was published by Berghahn Books in 2005. He has a further book "UN Accountability for Human Rights Violations" forthcoming with Cambridge University Press. For a complete CV and publication list see: [http://www.law.cam.ac.uk/staff/view_staff.php?profile=gv219]