Phoebe Okowa. Photo: Onur Pinar

Commentator

Anne Orford, Melbourne University, Olof Palme Guest Professor at Stockholm University

Description

Phoebe Okowa is Professor of Public International Law and Director of Graduate Studies at Queen Mary University of London and a member of the International Law Commission. She previously taught Public International law, Constitutional Law and Private International Law as a member of the Faculty of Law at the University of Bristol. She has held visiting appointments at the Universities of Lille, Helsinki Stockholm and WZB Berlin Social Science Center for Global Constitutionalism and has lectured for the United Nations at its Regional Course on International Law for Africa. In 2011 and 2015 she was Hauser Global Visiting Professor of Law at New York University, School of Law. An advocate of the High Court of Kenya, she has acted as counsel and consultant to governments and non-governmental organisations on questions of international law before domestic and international courts including the climate changes in the International Court of Justice and the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea. In 2017 she was nominated as an arbiter to the Permanent Court of Arbitration at the Hague.