Alexander Green

Key information

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  PhD title: An Interpretive Account of Legal Obligations between States
• alexander.green.09@ucl.ac.uk

Alex joined the Faculty of Laws in January 2013 to research international law and legal theory. He is particularly interested in the relationship between international law and political philosophy. His thesis concerns what it means to say that one State has a binding legal obligation to another. This research is supported by the Modern Law Review.

Alex holds an LLB in Law and an LLM in Human Rights Law from University College London. Before commencing his research he worked as a Consultant to the International Bar Association on matters of international criminal, humanitarian and human rights law. He also interned at the International Criminal Court, where he worked in the Prosecution Division of the Office of the Prosecutor.

Research Supervisors

• Douglas Guilfoyle
• Riz Mokal
• Stephen Guest

Areas of Expertise

Jurisprudence & Legal Theory, Public International Law

Research Interests

History of International Law, Human Rights, International Legal Theory, Legal Reasoning, Moral and Political Philosophy, Philosophical foundations of Property, Private Law Theory, Public International Law

UCL Associations/Academic & Professional Memberships

• International Bar Association
• Human Rights Lawyers Association

Current Teaching

Undergraduate

• LAWS2004 - Jurisprudence for 2nd yr LLB
• LAWS2007 - Tort Law LLB

Professional Experience

• 2010 - 2011: Research Assistant, London School of Economics, Law and Financial Markets Project
• 2011 - 2012: Consultant, International Bar Association
• 2012 : International Criminal Court, Office of the Prosecutor
• 2013 : Graduate Teaching Assistant in Jurisprudence, London School of Economics
• 2013 : Online LLM Tutor, University of Derby
• 2013 : PhD Tutor, The Brilliant Club

Public Engagements & Media Coverage

• UCL Research Blog: "Working for The Brilliant Club"
• Blog Entry: "Team America: Should it Air-Strike Again?", Social Justice First
• Blog Entry: "Financial Suicide: a legal perspective on moral responsibility", Social Justice First
• Blog Entry: "Why do we Punish War Criminals?", Social Justice First

Publications

Conference Papers

2014

• "Legal Interpretivism beyond the State", The Legacy of Ronald Dworkin - McMaster Philosophy of Law Conference (2014)
• "International Law and the Value of Statehood", British Institute of International and Comparative Law, 23rd Annual Conference (2014) 

2013

• "Formalist Foibles", International Graduate Legal Research Conference, Kings College London
• "A Community of Substance: Can International Law be Identified through Consensus Alone?", Edinburgh Postgraduate Law Conference, University of Edinburgh

Journals

2013

• "Rights, Risk and the Value of Life: A critical analysis of the right to life under the European Convention on Human Rights", (2013) 20 Journal of Law and Medicine 877

2012

• "All Taking and No Giving: The Conceptual Trend in Transfers of Ownership", (2012) J. Juris. 495-514 (2012)
• "A Philosophical Taxonomy of European Human Rights Law" (2012) 1 European Human Rights Law Review 71

2011

• "Expanding Law’s Empire: Interpretivism, Morality and the Value of Legality", European Journal of Legal Studies, Vol. 4, Issue 1 (Summer 2011), 121-150 (2011) 

2010

• "An Absolute Theory of Convention Rights: Why the ECHR Gives Rise to Legal Rights that Cannot Conflict with Each Other", (2010) 16 UCL Jurisprudence Review 75

Manuscripts in Preparation

2014

• The Majoritarian Account of Customary International Law
• Statehood as Political Community
• International Law on the Coercive Impact View