Position(s) at the Institute

Honorary Professor, International Law

Profile

Vera Gowlland Debbas is Honorary Professor at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies and a Visiting Professor at University College London since 2003.  She was a member of the Institute Faculty from 1994-2009.
A Visiting Fellow at All Souls College (Oxford) (2002), and a Visiting Professor at Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto (2003), the Institut des Hautes Etudes Internationales, Université Panthéon Assas, Paris II (2000), and the University of California, Berkeley (1995), she has also given guest lectures in a number of institutions abroad. The special courses she has given have included the Hague Academy of International Law, the European University Institute, Florence and the Institut des droits de l’homme, Strasbourg.
Her teaching, expertise and publications cover such topics as United Nations law, Security Council sanctions, terrorism, international responsibility, treaty law, international dispute settlement, human rights, refugee law and international criminal law. 
Professional activities have included acting as Counsel for the Arab League in the International Court of Justice Advisory Opinion on the Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory in 2004, and advising governments, and private law and consulting firms.  She has also contributed as an expert to the work of international organisations, such as the UN, UNHCR, OHCHR, UNODC, WHO, and the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD).
She serves on the advisory councils and editorial boards of select journals and law institutions.

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