Faculty Member, School of Law
Reader
About
Marco Roscini is Reader in International Law at the University of Westminster and is the LLM International Law Course leader, responsible for the overall management and effective delivery of the Course. Dr. Roscini specialises in the international law of armed conflict (both jus ad bellum and jus in bello), disarmament law, and international criminal law. His book on nuclear weapon-free zones, published in November 2003, analyses and compares the 1967 Tlatelolco Treaty, the 1985 Rarotonga Treaty, the 1995 Bangkok Treaty and the 1996 Pelindaba Treaty and considers the interplay between them and international humanitarian law, the law of the sea and the protection of the natural environment. This book and his other publications have been widely cited in legal literature and judicial decisions (his article on ‘Targeting and Contemporary Air Warfare’, published in the International and Comparative Law Quarterly in April 2005, has been cited several times by the Supreme Court of Israel in its decision on The Public Committee Against Torture in Israel v. Israel case (13 December 2006)).
Dr. Roscini is also a Visiting Lecturer at Queen Mary University of London and King's College London, where he teaches International Humanitarian Law. At the University of Westminster, he is the Coordinator of the International Law and Armed Conflict Cluster at the Centre for International Law and Theory. Dr. Roscini previously worked as a Research Fellow at the University of Verona and collaborated with the International Justice Project at the International Secretariat of Amnesty International, where he prepared extensive commentaries on the implementation of the International Criminal Court’s Statute in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Italy.
Dr. Roscini has participated in several research projects that were granted funding from the Italian government, the most recent one focusing on immunities in international law. In 2002, he was also awarded a German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) grant for a research stay at the Max-Planck Institut für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht, Heidelberg, Germany. He is in the Editorial Board of several scientific journals.
In January 2009, Dr. Roscini was appointed a member of the Peer Review College of the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), one of the main funders of academic research in the UK, for the period 2010-2013. This important position involves advising the Council on its decisions concerning research funding applications.
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University of Westminster School of Law
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United Kingdom
