Teaching International Law: Reflections on Pedagogical Practice in Context

This volume brings together a diversity of scholars and practitioners to share their experiences and critically reflect on current practices of teaching international law across various contexts, traditions, and perspectives.

Jean-Pierre Gauci is Arthur Watts Senior Research Fellow in Public International Law and Director of Teaching and Training at BIICL. He holds a PhD in Law from King’s College London and a Doctor of Laws and Magister Juris in International Law from the University of Malta. Jean-Pierre is also co-founder and co-director of The People for Change Foundation, a human rights think tank based in Malta; a consultant to international and national governmental and non-governmental organizations, and a lecturer in International Migration law and Ocean governance at the University of Malta. His primary areas of work include: migration and refugee law, human trafficking law and policy and international labour law.

Barrie Sander is assistant professor of international justice at the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs, Leiden University, where he teaches at Leiden University College The Hague. His research interests include international criminal law, international human rights law, and the intersection of digital technology and international law. He is author of Doing Justice to History: Confronting the Past in International Criminal Courts (OUP 2021), based on his PhD thesis, which was awarded the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies Alumni Association Prize 2021. He has also published in a wide range of international law journals, including European Journal of International Law, London Review of International Law, and Leiden Journal of International Law, and was awarded the Young Scholar Prize 2018 by International and Comparative Law Quarterly.