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Anthony Wenton
Research Fellow in Public International Law
Biography Anthony Wenton is Research Fellow in Public International Law at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law. He is a public international law generalist with particular research interests in jus ad bellum; international human rights law; self-determination; democratic governance; international criminal law and transitional justice; immunities; and rule of law capacity building. Previously, Anthony was the acting Managing Editor of BIICL's flagship publication, the…
Climate Change+2Dan Plesch
Visiting Research Fellow
Biography Professor Dan Plesch joined BIICL in February 2025 as a Visiting Research Fellow. Dan is Professor of Diplomacy and Strategy at SOAS University of London and a Door Tenant at 9 Bedford Row Chambers. He is an international relations scholar and historian, focused on the contemporary application of the historical origins of international criminal law. Dan is working with BIICL on an exciting new study of previously classified archives of the United Nations War Crimes Commission (UNWCC),…
Human Rights and IHL+2The Immunity of State Officials from Foreign Criminal Jurisdiction: Lessons from the United Nations War Crimes Commission
Anthony Wenton | 17th February 2025
This project explores whether contemporary international law scholarship and practice can learn useful lessons from the pioneering work of the United Nations War Crimes Commission. The project analyses the previously classified archives of the United Nations War Crimes Commission (UNWCC), a body of world leading legal experts that assisted Allied States in the 1940s to bring thousands of prosecutions against Axis personnel for their role in atrocity crimes perpetrated during WWII and…
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