Professor Guy S. Goodwin-Gill
MA, DPhil
Senior Research Fellow since 2002
Professor of International Refugee Law, University of Oxford
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Background
- Rubin Director of Research, Institute of European Studies, University of Oxford (from 1997 to 2002)
- Professor of Asylum Law, University of Amsterdam (from 1994 to 1999)
- Professor of Law, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada (from 1989 to 1997)
- Senior Legal Research Officer and variously Legal Adviser, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, London, Sydney, Geneva (from 1976 to 1988)
- Visiting Lecturer, Public International Law, Kingston Polytechnic, Kingston-upon-Thames (from 1973 to 1976)
- Lecturer, later Senior Lecturer, The College of Law, London (from 1971 to 1976)
- Undergraduate and Postgraduate, Wadham College, Oxford (from 1965 to 1974)
Research interests
- Public international law, with particular interests in immigration, refugees, statelessness and asylum, the use of force, elections and electoral standards
Selected publications
- The Refugee in International Law, 3rd edn. (with Dr Jane McAdam), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007, 2nd edn, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996
- Basic Documents on Human Rights, with Ian Brownlie, Q.C., eds., Oxford: Oxford University Press, 5th edn., 2006, 4th edn., 2002
- Free and Fair Elections, Geneva: Inter-Parliamentary Union, 2nd rev’d and expanded edn., 2006, in French: Elections libres et régulières, 2006, and in Spanish: Elecciones libres y justas, 2007
- The Reality of International Law: Essays in Honour of Ian Brownlie, with Stefan Talmon, eds., Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999
- Child Soldiers, with Ilene Cohn, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994
- International Law and the Movement of Persons between States, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978
Teaching and supervision
- Supervision of DPhil and MPhil students (law and international relations)
Other professional memberships and roles
- Practising Barrister from Blackstone Chambers, London
- Visiting Professor, Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law (from 2008 to 2009)