(ALAN) VAUGHAN LOWE
Chichele Professor of Public International Law in the University of Oxford, and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, since 1999. Member of the English Bar.
LLB (Wales) 1973; Maxwell Prize, 1973; LLM (Wales) 1978 ; PhD (Wales) 1980 ; MA (Cambridge) 1991 ; MA (Oxford) 1999 ; Barrister (Gray's Inn), 1993; Associé de l’Institut de Droit international 2005.
Formerly:
University Lecturer in Law, then Reader in International Law, University of Cambridge, and Fellow of Corpus Christi College 1988-99; Warden of Leckhampton, Cambridge, 1998-1999; Lecturer in Law, 1979 86, then Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Manchester, 1986 88; Lecturer in Law, University of Wales, Cardiff, 1973 79, (Visiting Scholar, University of Cambridge, 1976); Visiting Professor: Duke Law School, Fall 1990; Tulane Law School, Summer 2000.
Legal practice
Practising Barrister, Essex Court Chambers, 24 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London, mainly in the field of international law.
Notable appointments:-
Barbados v. Trinidad & Tobago maritime delimitation (2006) (as party-appointed arbitrator)
Bayview v United Mexican States (ICSID, 2006-) (as President of tribunal)
Judge, European Nuclear Energy Tribunal (2006- ) (nominated by UK)
Advisory work for more than a dozen governments, and for multinational corporations and international organizations, relating to published and unpublished cases in various national courts, the International Court of Justice, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, ad hoc arbitral tribunals, and the UN Compensation Commission.
Reported cases include:-
R v. Jones and others [2004] EWCA Crim 1981; [2006] UKHL 16 (for defendants Pritchard and Olditch).
Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, ICJ, 2004 (for Palestine).
Case concerning Land Reclamation by Singapore, ITLOS, 2003, (for Singapore).
Case concerning the MOX plant, UNCLOS arbitration, 2003(for Ireland).
Azinas v. Cyprus, Grand Chamber ECHR, 2003 (for Cyprus).
Lauder v Czech Republic, CME v Czech Republic, ad hoc arbitral tribunals, 2001, (for Czech Republic).
Case concerning the MOX plant, ITLOS, 2001 (for Ireland).
Southern Bluefin Tuna case, ad hoc arbitral tribunal, 2000 (for Japan).
Case concerning Passage Through the Great Belt, International Court of Justice, 1991 92 (for Finland).