Professor Roger O’Keefe

Bocconi University

Roger O’Keefe is Professor of International Law at Bocconi University in Milan. Previously he was Professor of Public International Law at University College London, before which he taught for fifteen years at the University of Cambridge, where was Senior Lecturer in Law, Deputy Director of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, and Fellow of Magdalene College. He is joint General Editor of the Oxford University Press series Oxford Monographs in International Law, a member of the Public International Law Advisory Panel of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law, and a full member of the International Institute for Humanitarian Law in Sanremo. Professor O’Keefe’s published works include the monograph The Protection of Cultural Property in Armed Conflict (Cambridge University Press, 2006), the treatise International Criminal Law (Oxford University Press, 2015), and the edited volume The United Nations Convention on Jurisdictional Immunities of States and Their Property: A Commentary (Oxford University Press, 2013), co-edited with Christian Tams. He has appeared as amicus curiae before the International Criminal Court and as expert witness before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.