Professor Elizabeth Wilmshurst
Profile
Elizabeth Wilmshurst is head of the International Law Programme at Chatham House.
Expertise
International Law:
- the use of force
- international criminal law including the international criminal court
- the law of the United Nations and its organs
- consular and diplomatic law
- State and sovereign immunity
- international humanitarian law
Academic and Professional Experience
- 2003-Date; Visiting Professor, University College, London University
- 1999-Apr 2003; Deputy Legal Adviser, Foreign & Commonwealth Office
- 1994-1999; Legal Counsellor at United Kingdom Misson to the United Nations, New York, then in the Foreign & Commonwealth Office
- 1990-1994; Legal Counsellor, Foreign & Commonwealth Office
- 1986-1990; Assistant Legal Adviser, then Legal Counsellor, Attorney General's Office
- 1974-1986; Assistant Legal Adviser, then Legal Counsellor at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office
- 1972; Lecturer, Bristol University