Matthew Happold

Professor in International Public Law University of Luxembourg Faculté de Droit, d'Economie et de Finance 162 A, avenue de la Faïencerie L-1511 Luxembourg Research Unit : Droit Office : Campus Limpertsberg, BRC 0.06A Telephone : (+352) 46 66 44 6976 Email :

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Matthew Happold is Professor in International Public Law at the University of Luxembourg, where he teaches public international law and international human rights law. He previously taught at the universities of Hull, Nottingham and Sussex, and worked at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law. He has been a Visiting Fellow at the Human Rights Program, Harvard Law School and a Visiting Professional in the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court.

Matthew’s publications include International Law in a Multipolar World (editor: forthcoming 2010), Child Soldiers in International Law  (2005) and Constitutional Human Rights in the Commonwealth  (co-editor with Michael Anderson, 2003), as well as articles in the Human Rights Law Review  (of which he is a member of the board of editors), the International and Comparative Law Quarterly , the Leiden Journal of International Law , the Netherlands International Law Review  and the Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law .

Matthew also practices as a barrister from 3 Hare Court, London.

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