Dr Danae Azaria
University College London
Dr Danae Azaria is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Laws, University College London (UCL), and the Principal Investigator of the grant on State Silence funded by the European Research Council (Grant agreement ID: 850706). She is a laureate of the Guggenheim Prize in Public International Law (2017) for her first monograph, and was scholarship holder of the Academy of Athens (for her PhD studies). Her publications have appeared in various journals including the European Journal of International Law, International and Comparative Law Quarterly, International and Community Law Review, Cambridge International Law Journal, American Journal of International Law, AJIL Unbound, British Yearbook of International Law (forthcoming). She is the Book Reviews editor of the British Yearbook of International Law, Co-Rapporteur of the ILA Committee on Submarine Pipelines and Cables, member of the ILA Committee on Use of Force by Invitation, and member of the Advisory Panel of Public International Law of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL). She regularly holds prestigious 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 the University of Trento (2022). In 2026, she will be Director of Studies at The Hague Academy of International Law. 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; and she has been proposed by the European Commission to be on the list of arbitrators for the EU-Kazakhstan trade agreement. She regularly advises international organizations and governments on issues of public international law, 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.