Dr Danae Azaria
Dr Danae Azaria (PhD UCL, LLM UCL) is an award-winning general public international lawyer. She is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Laws, University College London (UCL), and the Principal Investigator of the grant of the European Research Council (Grant agreement ID: 850706), which funds the research group that she directs on “State Silence”. Dr Azaria is an elected Member of the UCL Council (2025-), UCL’s governing body.
She is a laureate of the Guggenheim Prize in Public International Law (2017) for her monograph, Treaties on Transit of Energy via Pipelines and Countermeasures (OUP 2015), which also received the 2015 Tenekides Prize of the Hellenic Society of International Law and Relations, and the 2016 Greek Energy Forum research prize. She held a scholarship of the Academy of Athens for her doctoral research. Her publications have appeared in leading journals, including the European Journal of International Law, International and Comparative Law Quarterly, British Yearbook of International Law, Cambridge International Law Journal, American Journal of International Law, Leiden Journal of International Law.
She is the Book Reviews Editor and member of the Editorial Board of the British Yearbook of International Law, and previously also served as Managing Editor of the American Journal of International Law Unbound. She was the Chair of the ILA Committee on Submarine Pipelines and Cables (2024-2026), having served as Co-Rapporteur in the same Committe (2019-2024) whose work was succesfully concluded with the adoption by the ILA of a set of Conclusions with accompanying commentary on Monitoring and Prevention of Intentional Damage against Submarine Cables and Pipelines (2026). She is member of the Advisory Panel of Public International Law of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL), and has served previously as member of the ILA Committe on Use of Force by Invitation.
She regularly holds Visiting Professorships and Fellowships around the wolrd, including as Visiting Scholar, Harvard Law School (2023); Senior Global Hauser Fellow, NYU Law School (2023-2024); Senior Humboldt Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Humboldt University Berlin, 2019-2021); Visiting Professor at Paris-Nanterre Law School (2025); Visiting Professor at the University of Trento (2022). In 2026, she was Director of Studies at The Hague Academy of International Law (summer session) teaching her course on ‘State Silence in International Law’. She has given invited talks, including multiple keynote speeches, at international conferences around the world, including North America, China, Chile, Germany, France, and the UK, as well as at the United Nations Headquarters (New York) and the United Nations Office in Geneva.
Dr Azaria is a qualified lawyer (Athens Bar, Greece) with significant practice in the field of public international law. She regularly acts as advisor to governments and international organizations on issues of public international law, and as Counsel to governments in disputes before international courts and tribunals, such as the International Court of Justice, and arbitral tribunals. She is on the EU’s list of potential Arbitrators and Experts on Trade and Sustainable Development in the EU’s bilateral disputes under trade agreements with third States. She regularly trains government officials, including in the regional courses on international law of the United Nations, and her lecture on State Silence has been included in the United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law.