Dr Janina Dill
Janina Dill is a Professor of Global Security at the Blavatnik School of Government of the University of Oxford. She is also a Fellow at Trinity College and Co-Director of the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law, and Armed Conflict (ELAC).
Her research concerns the role of law and morality in international relations, specifically in war. She is an expert on the legal requirements for the conduct of military operations, about which she has written, including two books.
One strand of research investigates how international law can be an instrument of morality in war, albeit an imperfect one. This work speaks to debates in just war theory and international law.
Another strand of her research seeks to explain how moral and legal norms affect the reality of war. She contributes to debates about the capacity of international law to constrain military decision-making. She also studies how norms shape public opinion on the use of force and the attitudes of conflict-affected populations, for instance, in Afghanistan, Ukraine and Iraq.