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Professor Gerry Simpson

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As well as holding a Chair of Law at the Law School, Gerry Simpson is a Professor of Public International Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is the author of Great Powers and Outlaw States (Cambridge, 2004) (awarded the American Society of International Law's annual prize for Pre-eminent Contribution to Creative Legal Scholarship) and the recently published Law, War and Crime: War Crimes Trials and the Reinvention of International Law. He is co-editor of The Law of War Crimes: National and International Approaches and editor of The Nature of International Law (Ashgate 2001) and War Crimes Law Volumes I and II (Ashgate, 2005).

Gerry Simpson studied law at the University of Aberdeen, the University of British Columbia and the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) where he received his doctorate. He has taught at the University of British Columbia, the University of Melbourne (where he is currently a Visiting Senior Fellow) and the Australian National University, and he has held visiting positions at Sydney Law School (1996) and Harvard Law School (1999).

Professor Simpson has worked for several NGOs and was a member of the Australian Government Delegation to the Rome Diplomatic Conference for the Negotiation of the Statute for the International Criminal Court. He appears regularly in the British media (writing for the BBC and appearing on television), and engages in human rights training with the UK Foreign Office and the Belgrade Humanitarian Law Centre.