Professor Malgosia Fitzmaurice, LLM PhD (Warsaw)
Professor of Public International Law
Location: Mile End
email: m.fitzmaurice@qmul.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0)20 7882 3949
Fax: +44 (0)207 882 7042
Malgosia Fitzmaurice holds a chair of public international law at the Department of Law, Queen Mary, University of London. She specialises in international environmental law and the law of treaties.
Professor Fitzmaurice published widely on both subjects. In July 2001, she was invited to deliver keynote lectures on 'International Protection of the Environment' at the Hague Academy of International Law.
In 1996, Professor Fitzmaurice delivered a paper at the 50th anniversary of the International Court of Justice in The Hague. She lectured widely in the United Kingdom and abroad at various universities, such as Utrecht and Brussels and at the World Bank in 2001. She also participated in many international conferences. Until 2001, she was a member of the Board of Editors and one of the Editors of the Netherlands Yearbook of International Law. She is the Editor in Chief of the International Community Law Review and a Co-Rapporteur of the International Law Association Committee on Non-State Actors. She taught extensively in varius law schools, including the United States.
Professor Fitzmaurice's previous teaching positions include Readership in international law at the Department of Law, University of Amsterdam. She also worked at the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal in The Hague.
Professor Fitzmaurice teaches undergraduate and graduate international law courses, including international environmental law and the law of treaties. She is a LLM convenor in international law at the University of London.
Malgosia Fitzmaurice published recently two substantive articles: "Canons of Treaty Interpreatation: Selected Case Studies from the World Trade Organisation and the North American Free Trade Agreement", in the 2005 Austrian Review of International and European Law (published December 2007), pp. 41-95l; and an article with Jill Marshall "The Human Right to a Clean Environment-Phantom or Reality? The European Cour of Huma Rights and Englis Courts Perspectiveon Balancing Rights in Environmental Matters", 76 Nordic Journal of International Law (2007), pp. 103-151.
In October issue 2007 of the American Journal of International of International Law a very favourable review was published of the book with Olufemi Elias, Contemporary Issues in the Law of Treaties, by Duncan Hollis".
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Publications:
- Contemporary Issues in the Law of Treaties (with P Elias)(Eleven International Publishing, The Hague, 2005)
- Watercourse Co-operation in Northern Europe: A Model for the Future (with P Elias) (Asser Press, The Hague, 2004)
- 'Consent to be Bound: Anything New Under the Sun' (2005) 24 Nordic J of International Law 483
- Issues of State Responsibility Before International Judicial Institutions (edited with D Sarooshi) (Hart Publishing, Oxford, 2004)
- 'Central Principles Governing the Co-operation between States in Relation to Non-navigational Uses of International Watercourses' [2003] Yearbook of International Environmental Law 3
- International Protection of the Environment (The Hague Academy of International Law/Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, The Hague, 2002)
- 'Some reflections on public participation in environmental matters as a human right in international law' (2002) 2 Non-State Actors and International Law 1
- 'The Identification and Character of Treaties and Treaty Obligations between States in International Law' (2002) 73 British Yearbook of International Law 191-187
- The Right of the Child to a Clean Environment (edited with A Fijalkowski) (Ashgate Publishing, Aldershot, 2000)
Supervision:
Professor Fitzmaurice welcomes proposals for postgraduate supervision in the fields of international environmental law and the law of treaties.