Malcolm Nathan Shaw KC (born 1947) is a British legal academic, author, editor and lawyer.

Early life

Shaw studied at the

University of Liverpool , mottoeng = These days of peace foster learning , established = 1881 – University College Liverpool1884 – affiliated to the federal Victoria Universityhttp://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukla/2004/4 University of Manchester Act 200 ...

(LLB), the

Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; he, הַאוּנִיבֶרְסִיטָה הַעִבְרִית בִּירוּשָׁלַיִם) is a public university, public research university based in Jerusalem, Israel. Co-founded by Albert Einstein ...

(LLM) and Keele University (PhD).

Career

Shaw was the Sir Robert Jennings Professor of International Law at the

University of Leicester , mottoeng = So that they may have life , established = , type = public research university , endowment = £20.0 million , budget = £326 million , chancellor = David Willetts , vice_chancellor = Nishan Canagarajah , head_la ...

and taught

international law International law (also known as public international law and the law of nations) is the set of rules, norms, and standards generally recognized as binding between states. It establishes normative guidelines and a common conceptual framework for ...

human rights Human rights are moral principles or normsJames Nickel, with assistance from Thomas Pogge, M.B.E. Smith, and Leif Wenar, 13 December 2013, Stanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyHuman Rights Retrieved 14 August 2014 for certain standards of hu ...

and equity and trusts. Following retirement, he was appointed as Senior Fellow at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law at the University of Cambridge and made a Trustee of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law. He is a practising barrister and

jurist A jurist is a person with expert knowledge of law; someone who analyses and comments on law. This person is usually a specialist legal scholar, mostly (but not always) with a formal qualification in law and often a legal practitioner. In the U ...

. He is the author of a best selling book on International Law (first published in 1977; 6th edition released in 2008). He also edited ''Title to Territory'', a collection of articles on title and sovereignty in international law.

Selected works

Shaw's published writings encompass 20 works in 54 publications in 3 languages and 2,999 library holdings. WorldCat Identities

Shaw, Malcolm N. (Malcolm Nathan) 1947-
/ref> * ''International Law'' (1977) * ''Dispute-settlement in Africa'' (1983) * ''International Law and Intervention in Africa'' (1985) * ''Title to Territory in Africa: International Legal Issues'' (1986) * ''Genocide and International Law'' (1989) * ''The Definition of Minorities in International Law'' (1991) * ''Succession d'états aux biens et aux dettes: opinion à la Commission d'étude des questions afférentes à l'accession du Québec à la souveraineté'' (1992) * ''La dette extérieure'' (1995) * ''The International Court of Justice: a Practical Perspective(1997) * ''The Heritage of States: the Principle of "''uti possidetis juris''" Today'' (1997) * ''Nemzetközi jog'' (2001) * ''Title to Territory'' (2005) * ''The International Law of Territory'' (2008)

Lectures

in the ttp://legal.un.org/avl/lectureseries.html Lecture Series of the United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law
''Settling Territorial Disputes''
in th

* ttp://legal.un.org/avl/faculty/Shaw.html ''Principles of Maritime Delimitation''in th
Lecture Series of the United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law

References

External links

Essex Court Chambers profile and CV
Living people 1947 births British legal scholars British barristers International law scholars Academics of the University of Leicester Alumni of the University of Liverpool Alumni of Keele University Members of Gray's Inn 20th-century King's Counsel {{UK-law-bio-stub