The Lauterpacht Centre for International Law (LCIL) at the

Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge The Faculty of Law, Cambridge is the law school of the University of Cambridge. The study of law at the University of Cambridge began in the thirteenth century. The faculty sits the oldest law professorship in the English-speaking world, the ...

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, was founded in 1983 by

Sir Elihu Lauterpacht Sir Elihu Lauterpacht (13 July 1928 – 8 February 2017) was a British academic and lawyer, who specialized in international law. The son of Sir Hersch Lauterpacht, he was founder of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law at the Law Faculty ...

under the name The Research Centre for International Law. It was renamed in 1997 "to honour the achievements of his father

Sir Hersch Lauterpacht Sir Hersch Lauterpacht (16 August 1897 – 8 May 1960) was a British international lawyer, human rights activist, and judge at the International Court of Justice. Biography Hersh Lauterpacht was born on 16 August 1897 to a Jewish family in t ...

and himself".Squire Law Library
at University of Cambridge The Centre's objectives are: to serve as a discussion forum for current issues by organising seminars, lectures and meetings aimed at developing an understanding of international law; to promote research and the publication of core research material; to provide, in Cambridge, an intellectual home for visiting researchers of international law from around the world who wish to pursue their own research in an atmosphere that is stimulating and congenial to the generation and exchange of ideas; to provide education and training programmes of the highest quality; to maintain a library of archival and source materials relating to international law.

List of directors

(1985–1995) *

John Dugard Christopher John Robert Dugard (born 23 August 1936 in Fort Beaufort), known as John Dugard, is a South African professor of international law. His main academic specializations are in Roman-Dutch law, public international law, jurisprudence, hum ...

(1995–1997) * James Crawford (1997–2003) *

Daniel Bethlehem Sir Daniel Lincoln Bethlehem KCMG KC (born 16 June 1960) is a barrister and former Legal Adviser to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office of the United Kingdom government. Before that he was an external Legal Adviser to Israeli Government, working ...

QC (2003–2006) * Charlotte Ku (October 2006 – March 2007) * James Crawford (April 2007 – September 2010) * Marc Weller (October 2010 – 2016) *

Eyal Benvenisti Eyal Benvenisti ( he, איל בנבנשתי; born 1959) is an attorney and legal academic, and Whewell Professor of International Law at the University of Cambridge. He was formerly Anny and Paul Yanowicz Professor of Human Rights at Tel Aviv Univ ...

(2016–present)

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