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PhD projects
Professor Orakhelashvili has supervised or is currently supervising doctoral students undertaking research in the following areas:
• Aut dedere aut judicare as a customary rule
• The UN member states and individuals sharing international responsibility for the serious violation of international law committed during peace support operations
• Iran and Nuclear non-proliferation
• John Austin’s theory of law
• Implications of New Technology for Targeting under International Humanitarian Law
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Professor Orakhelashvili obtained his first law degree from Tbilisi State University in 1997, his master’s degree from Leiden University in 2000 and his PhD from Cambridge University in 2005, and joined the School of Law in September 2009. Previously, he was Shaw Foundation Junior Research Fellow in Law at Jesus College, Oxford (2005-2008). He has taught and supervised in public international law and armed conflicts law at the universities of Cambridge (2003-2004), London (2003-2005) and Oxford (2005-2008).
Professor Orakhelashvili’s research focuses on all areas of public international law. He has published 10 books, including 6 sole-authored monographs, a textbook and 3 edited collections. An expanded version of his doctoral thesis has been published as Peremptory Norms in International Law (OMIL, OUP 2006, paperback 2008, 657 pages), which is the first and so far the only comprehensive study of the complex phenomenon of peremptory norms in the international legal system. This was followed by
Professor Orakhelashvili has also published three edited collections and contributed about 90 articles and chapters to leading journals, yearbooks and edited collections. His work has been repeatedly cited by judges in national and international courts, for instance in 2004 by Mance LJ (as he then was) in the Court of Appeal decision on Jones v Saudi Arabia, as well as the Australian High Court, European and Inter-American Courts of Human Rights.
He authored the 8th and 9th editions of Akehurst’s Modern Introduction to International Law (2018 and 2022, respectively), one of the UK's leading international law textbooks.
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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Research output: Book/Report › Book
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