Adjunct Professor of Law
B.Sc., The London School of Economics & Political Science; C.P.E., M.A., City University, London; Diploma in European Human Rights Law, European University Institute, Florence; LL.M., Ph.D., Cambridge

Biography

Ralph Wilde has been at Faculty Member at UCL Faculty of Laws since July 2002, and before then taught at Cambridge University. He has also served as the Henry Fellow and a Visiting Scholar at Yale Law School, and a Visiting Professor at the University of Texas Law School. Ralph's current research focuses on the administration of territory by foreign actors, whether individual states (e.g. the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq 2003-4) or international organizations (e.g. the UN Administration in Kosovo since 1999); the extraterritorial application of domestic and international human rights law; and the accountability and legitimacy of international organizations. Ralph also works as a consultant on international law to individuals, governments, international organizations, NGOs and other clients. Examples of this include co-authoring a legal opinion with Professor James Crawford SC and Professor Philippe Sands QC for Human Rights First on the legality of non-surrender agreements entered into by the US and a range of states in relation to the International Criminal Court; representing the UK at a diplomatic meeting in June 2004 between EU states and China on China's possible ratification of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; and working as part of the applicants' legal teams in the Quark case before the English courts concerning the extraterritorial application of human rights law. Ralph is Co-Chair of the International Organizations Interest Group at the American Society of International Law, Joint Honorary Secretary of the British Branch of the International Law Association (ILA) and a member of the ILA Executive Council.