Sir Christopher Greenwood GBE CMG QC
Effective advocacy in inter-state litigation (afternoon panels session, day 2)
Christopher Greenwood is a Judge of the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal and an international arbitrator. Prior to his appointment to the Tribunal, he was a Judge of the International Court of Justice from 2009 to February 2018. Before his election to the Court, he was Professor of International Law at the London School of Economics and a practising barrister who regularly argued cases about international law before international and English courts. He obtained degrees in Law and International Law from Cambridge University where he is an Honorary Fellow of Magdalene College and of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law.
His publications include over 120 volumes of the International Law Reports (including some 80 volumes as Joint Editor with the late Sir Elihu Lauterpacht QC), a collection of essays – Essays on War in International Law (2006) – and numerous articles. He is currently working on a tenth edition of Oppenheim’s International Law. Christopher Greenwood was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 1999, made a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) for services to public international law in 2002 and knighted in 2009. In June 2018 he was appointed Knight Grand Cross (GBE) for services to international justice.