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