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Dr Anthony Cullen

Research Fellow in International Law

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Prior to joining the University of Leeds in August 2011, I was a Research Fellow on the joint British Red Cross/International Committee of the Red Cross project on Customary International Humanitarian Law at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge.

Before this, I completed my doctoral thesis on the concept of non-international armed conflict in international humanitarian law at the Irish Centre for Human Rights, NUI, Galway.

Scholarly and Research Interests

My research interests are varied, but focus mainly on international humanitarian law, international human rights law, and on the development of foreign policy in these areas.

I am currently working on a study of human rights in non-sovereign spaces and a research project on military necessity in international humanitarian law.

Teaching

I teach Global Governance through Law (LAW5865M) and the Laws of War (LAW5285M) to postgraduates om the LLM programme. At undergraduate level, I teach International Law (LAW 2146).

PhD Supervision

I would be happy to supervise students in the general areas of my research interests.

Key Publications

Monograph

The Concept of Non-international Armed Conflict in International Humanitarian Law; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Book Chapters

'War Crimes' in Nadia Bernaz and William Schabas (eds.) Routledge Handbook of International Criminal Law, Oxford: Routledge, 2010.

Journal Articles

'The Definition of Non-International Armed Conflict in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court: An Analysis of the Threshold of Application Contained in Article 8(2)(f)' (2007) 12(3) Journal of Conflict & Security Law 419. This will be reprinted in William Schabas (ed.) International Criminal Law, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2011.

'Key Developments Affecting the Scope of Internal Armed Conflict in International Humanitarian Law' (2005) 183 Military Law Review 65.

'Defining Torture in International Law: A Critique of the Concept Employed by the European Court of Human Rights' (2003) 34(1) California Western International Law Journal 29.