Research Ruth has conducted numerous research and other projects in the
field of international dispute settlement, focusing in particular on access
of non-state actors to international courts and tribunals, and on the independence
of the international judiciary. She is currently working on CICT’s AHRC
project on international judicial selection processes, and acts as Co-Secretary
of the International Law Association Study Group on the Practice and Procedure
of International Tribunals. She is co-editor of the Manual on International
Courts and Tribunals (Butterworths 1999), which is presently being revised for
publication of the second edition in 2009.
Ruth has also worked extensively in the field of international environmental
law and remains active in this area, particularly in relation to biodiversity
and biotechnology. She has been involved in wide range of capacity-building
activities associated with the Convention on Biological Diversity and the Cartagena
Protocol on Biosafety, and has acted as an adviser to intergovernmental and
non-governmental organisations on the implementation of these and other multilateral
environmental agreements. Ruth acted as a consultant to the Secretariat of the
Convention on Biological Diversity during the negotiations of the Cartagena
Protocol, and has since prepared a negotiating history of the Protocol for the
Secretariat. She also led a three year multidisciplinary research project, funded
by the UK Department for International Development, on Globalisation and the
International Governance of Modern Biotechnology.
Ruth is a member of the International Law Association Committee on International
Law and Biotechnology, and a member of the IUCN Commission on Environmental
Law. She is an Adjunct Senior Fellow of the United
Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies, and in 2005 was a Visiting
Senior Fellow at Melbourne University.
Publications Ruth’s publications
include:
Mackenzie, “Chambers of International Courts and Tribunals”,
contribution to Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law
(Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2008)
Mackenzie, “The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety and the Development
of International Environmental Law” in Falkner (ed), The International
Politics of Genetically Modified Food, Palgrave MacMillan 2006, pp.213-228
Mackenzie and Sands, “Judicial Selection for International Courts:
towards common principles and practices” in Malleson and Russell (eds.),
Appointing Judges in an Age of Judicial Power: Critical Perspectives from
Around the World, University of Toronto Press 2006, pp.213-237
Mackenzie, “The Amicus Curiae in International Courts: towards
common procedural approaches?” in Treves et al. (eds.), Civil Society,
International Courts and Compliance Bodies, TMC Asser Press 2005,
pp. 295-311
Newell and Mackenzie, “Whose Rules Rule? Development and the Global
Governance of Biotechnology”, 35 IDS Bulletin (2004), pp. 82-91
Mackenzie, Burhenne-Guilmin, La Viña and Werksman, Explanatory
Guide to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, IUCN Environmental Law
and Policy Paper No. 46, 2003
Mackenzie and Sands, “International courts and tribunals and the independence
of the international judge”, 44 Harvard Journal of International
Law (2003) pp. 271-285
Boisson de Chazournes, Romano and Mackenzie (eds.) International Organizations
and International Dispute Settlement: Trends and Prospects, Transnational
Publishers 2002
Chinkin and Mackenzie, “Intergovernmental Organizations as ‘Friends
of the Court’” in Boisson de Chazournes, Romano and Mackenzie
(eds.) International Organizations and International Dispute Settlement:
Trends and Prospects, Transnational Publishers 2002, pp.135-162
Mackenzie, “Environmental Damage and Genetically Modified Organisms”
in Bowman and Boyle (eds.), Environmental Damage in International and
Comparative Law: Problems of Definition and Valuation, Oxford University
Press 2002, pp. 63-84
Mackenzie, “The International Regulation of Modern Biotechnology”,
13 Yearbook of International Environmental Law (2002) pp. 97-163
Sands, Mackenzie and Shany (eds.) Manual on International Courts and
Tribunals, Butterworths 1999
