Dr Erin Pobjie
Essex Law School and Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law
Dr Erin Pobjie is Assistant Professor of International Law at Essex Law School, a Senior Research Affiliate at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law and a Fellow in the Space Security Programme at the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research. Her expertise is in the prohibition of the use of force by States (jus contra bellum) and new and emerging threats to international peace and security.
Erin is co-Rapporteur of the International Law Association’s Committee on the Use of Force and a co-convener of the European Society of International Law’s Interest Group on Peace and Security. She was recently awarded the inaugural British Academy Global Innovation Fellowship (Technology and International Affairs) at the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP). Her new Open Access monograph is Prohibited Force: The Meaning of ‘Use of Force’ in International Law (Cambridge University Press, 2024).
She holds a PhD (summa cum laude) from the University of Cologne, an LLM in International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (with Distinction) from the University of Essex, and a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) and Bachelor of Arts (Dean’s List award) from the University of Melbourne. She has been a visiting scholar at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law at the University of Cambridge. Erin is a qualified Australian lawyer and has served as a Visiting Professional at the International Criminal Court.