Vaughan Lowe


Alan Vaughan Lowe is a barrister and academic specialising in the field of international law. Chichele Professor of Public International Law in the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, 1999–2012; Emeritus Professor of International Law and Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, University of Oxford, since 2012; visiting professor, University of Chichester, 2024.
He was previously Reader in International Law and a Fellow of Corpus Christi College in Cambridge University, and taught at the Manchester University and Cardiff University and, as a visiting professor, at universities in Europe, Asia and the USA.
Lowe took his LLB, LLM and PhD degrees at the University of Wales in Cardiff, and was awarded MA degrees by Cambridge and Oxford Universities and honorary LLD degrees by the University of Athens and the University of Chichester. He was called to the Bar by Gray's Inn, of which he is a Bencher, and took silk, becoming Queen's Counsel in 2008.
He was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon by Japan in 2008, and made a Cavaler, Ordinul National Serviciul Credincios by Romania in 2009. In 2010 he was awarded the Order of Paduka Seri Laila Jasa by Brunei, and in 2017 was awarded the Grand Cross, Order of El Sol Del Péru, by Peru. He was awarded the Collar Degree, Order of Timor-Leste, by Timor-Leste in 2024.
He is a member of the Institut de droit international.

Notable cases

Source:
As arbitrator or judge
• Dispute Concerning Coastal State Rights in the Black Sea, Sea of Azov, and Kerch Strait , PCA, 2017 –
• Arbitration Between the Republic of Croatia and the Republic of Slovenia, PCA 2012 – 2017
• Kononov v. Latvia, European Court of Human Rights, 2009 – 2011
• Achmea v. Slovakia, UNCITRAL / PCA, 2008 -– 2012
• Barbados v. Trinidad & Tobago maritime delimitation, PCA 2004 –2006
• Judge, European Nuclear Energy Tribunal 2006 – 2014
As counsel
• Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip ICJ 2024-
• Request for an Advisory Opinion submitted by the Commission of Small Island States on Climate Change and International Law, International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, 2023 –
• Application of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, ICJ, 2021-
• ICAO Appeal, and Application of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, ICJ 2018 – 2021
• Alleged Violations of the 1955 Treaty of Amity, Economic Relations, and Consular Rights , ICJ 2018 –
• Timor Sea Conciliation , UNCLOS Conciliation, 2016-2018
• Land Boundary in the Northern Part of Isla Portillos, ICJ 2017
• Certain Iranian Assets , ICJ 2016 – 2023
• Maritime Delimitation in the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean , ICJ 2014 - 2018
• Railway Land arbitration, PCA 2014
• Questions relating to the Seizure and Detention of Certain Documents and Data , ICJ 2013-2015
• Arbitration under the Timor Sea Treaty , PCA 2013-2017
• Alleged Violations of Sovereign Rights and Maritime Spaces in the Caribbean Sea , ICJ 2013 - 2022
• Question of the Delimitation of the Continental Shelf between Nicaragua and Colombia beyond 200 nautical miles from the Nicaraguan Coast , ICJ 2013 – 2023
• Obligation to Negotiate Access to the Pacific Ocean , ICJ 2013 - 2018
• Whaling in the Antarctic , ICJ 2010 - 2014
• Maritime Dispute , ICJ, 2008 - 2014
• Territorial and Maritime Dispute , ICJ, 2001 - 2012
• Indus Waters Kishenganga Arbitration , PCA, 2011 - 2013
• Maritime Delimitation in the Black Sea , ICJ 2009
• Request for Interpretation of the Judgment of 31 March 2004 in the Case concerning Avena and Other Mexican Nationals , ICJ 2008
• Varnava and Others v. Turkey, Grand Chamber ECHR, 2008
• R v. Secretary of State for Defence UKHL 58
• The Hoshinmaru and The Tomimaru ITLOS, 2007
• R v. Jones UKHL 16, EWCA Crim 1981
• Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, ICJ, 2004
• Land Reclamation by Singapore in and around the Straits of Johor , ITLOS and PCA, 2003 - 2005,
• The MOX Plant Case , UNCLOS arbitration, 2003
• Azinas v. Cyprus, Grand Chamber ECHR, 2003
• Southern Bluefin Tuna cases, ad hoc arbitral tribunal, 2000

Publications

  • The Law of the Sea, 4th edition . Pp. lxix and 897.. 3rd edition . Pp. xlix and 494.. 2nd edition . Pp. xxi and 321. .
  • International Law. A Very Short Introduction,, PP. 144
  • Joint editor British Year Book of International Law, .
  • The United Nations Security Council and War,, Vaughan Lowe, Adam Roberts, Jennifer Welsh and Dominik Zaum, Pp. 793..
  • International Law –'' Clarendon Law Series. Pp. xxv and 298. .
  • The Settlement of International Disputes . Pp. xxviii and 395..
  • The International Law Commission and the Future of International Law,. Pp. xxi and 239..
  • Fifty Years of the International Court of Justice: Essays in honour of Sir Robert Jennings Pp. xxviii + 629 + index. .
  • The United Nations and the Principles of International Law: Essays in Memory of Michael Akehurst,. Pp. 266..
  • The Business of Licensing . Pp. xi and 169..
  • Extraterritorial Jurisdiction: an Annotated Collection of Legal Materials''. Pp. xxi and 272..
Articles and chapters in various journals and books.