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Dr Kimberley Trapp
Senior Lecturer in Public International Law My research focuses broadly on the legal regimes which regulate violence under international law (including in respect of the use of force, armed conflicts, and terrorism suppression). In particular, I explore these regimes with a view to better accounting for the increasingly central role of individuals in the international system and the realities of modern threats to international peace and security. For example, I am currently writing on the interaction between the law of armed conflict and international law related to terrorism suppression. Politically, it is rather expedient these days to refer to armed groups like the Taliban and Daesh as “terrorists” – but there are potentially legal implications to doing so. My research seeks to identify those implications and to propose a framework of analysis which preserves the core elements of each regime, while accommodating the changing nature of armed conflict and its participants.
MAIN IMAGE: Roger O’Keefe, Professor of Public International Law. He has published widely on canonical topics of public international law, including the law of treaties, the relationship between international and domestic law, title to territory, jurisdiction and immunities, and state responsibility.
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