Staff Profile:Dr. James A Green

Name:

Dr James A. Green

Job Title:

Reader in Public International Law

Responsibilities:

James A. Green currently teaches the following modules:

• LLB: International Law, International Law Mooting.
• LLM: War Law, International Law in Theory and Practice, Contemporary Issues in International Law. 
  

He is also Taught Postgraduate Dissertations Coordinator and is the LLM Programmes Director for the programmes in International Law and World Order, European Union Law and Advanced Legal Studies.

Areas of Interest:

Public International Law, Use of Force, International Court of Justice, Customary International Law.

Research groups / Centres:

Publications:

 Sole-Authored Books

• The International Court of Justice and Self-Defence in International Law (Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2009, winner of the 2010 American Society of International Law's "Francis Lieber Prize" and the University of Reading "Research Endowment Trust Fund Prize for Outstanding Research Publication 2010: Faculty of Social Sciences"').

Edited Books

• Conflict in the Caucasus: Implications for International Legal Order (Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010) (co-edited with C.P.M. Waters).

Major Articles

• "India and a Customary Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban: Persistent Objection, Peremptory Norms and the 123 Agreement" (2011) 51(2) Indian Journal of International Law 3-45.
• "The Threat of Force as an Action in Self-Defense under International Law" (2011) 44 Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law 285-329 (co-authored with F. Grimal).
• "Questioning the Peremptory Status of the Prohibition of the Use of Force" (2011) 32 Michigan Journal of International Law 215-255.
• "The Jus ad Bellum and Entities Short of Statehood in the Report on the Conflict in Georgia" (2010) 59 International and Comparative Law Quarterly 129-139 (co-authored with C. Henderson). 
• "Fluctuating Evidentiary Standards for Self-Defence in the International Court of Justice" (2009) 58 International and Comparative Law Quarterly 163-179.
• "Self-Defence: A State of Mind for States?" (2008) 55 Netherlands International Law Review 181-206.
• "Docking the Caroline: Understanding the Relevance of the Formula in Contemporary Customary International Law Concerning Self-Defense" (2006) 14 Cardozo Journal of International and Comparative Law, 429-480.
• "The Oil Platforms Case: An Error in Judgment?" (2004) 9 Journal of Conflict and Security Law 357-386.

Chapters in Edited Books

• "Passportisation, Peacekeepers and Proportionality: The Russian Claim of the Protection of Nationals Abroad in Self-Defence" in J.A. Green and C.P.M. Waters (eds.), Conflict in the Caucasus: Implications for International Legal Order (Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), 54-79.
• "International Law: Military Force and Armed Conflict" in G. Kassimeris and J. Buckley (eds.), The Ashgate Research Companion to Modern Warfare (Farnham, Ashgate Publishing, 2010), 289-306 (co-authored with C.P.M. Waters).

Other Publications

• "Self-Preservation" in R. Wolfrum (ed.), Max Planck Encyclopaedia of Public International Law, Volume IX (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2012), 128-131 [online version for subscribers only (2009)].
• "Laws of War" in G. Martel (ed.), The Encyclopedia of War, Volume III (Oxford, Wiley-Blackwell, 2012), 1204-1212 [online version for subscribers only (2011)].
• "Book Review: Tom Ruys, 'Armed Attack' and Article 51 of the UN Charter (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2010)" (2011) 16 Journal of Conflict and Security Law 407-410.
• "Reflection Gives Students Credit Where It's Due" (2011) 25 Teaching Matters (University of Reading) 4.
• "Book Review: Myra Williamson, Terrorism, War and International Law: The Legality of the Use of Force against Afghanistan in 2001 (Aldershot, Ashgate, 2009)" (2009) 80 British Yearbook of International Law 439-442.
• "Book Review: Richard A. Falk, The Costs of War: International Law, The UN and World Order (Abingdon, Routledge, 2008)" (2009) 27 Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice 239-241.
• "Legality of Attacks Inside Pakistan: US Needs to First Satisfy Itself that Pakistan is Unable to Suppress the Militants" (2008) Pakistan Institute for Peace Studies [online publication].
• "An Unusual Silence" (2007) 157 New Law Journal 1478-1479.

Recent Conference Papers:

• "Cyber-Attacks Under International Law" presented at the International Society for Military Sciences Annual Conference, Tartu, Estonia (hosted by the Baltic Defence College), 9 November 2011.
• "India as a Persistent Objector to a Customary Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban: The Implications of Possible Peremptory Status and the Indo-US 123 Agreement" presented at the Third "123 Agreement Project" Workshop, Delhi, India (hosted by the Indian Society of International Law, in partnership with the University of Reading and The Tamil Nadu Dr. Ambedkar Law University, Chennai), 2 April 2011.
• "International Law - An Academic Overview" presented at the Joint Services Command and Staff College, Defence Academy, as part of the Advanced Command and Staff Course for international military personnel, Shrivenham, 16 November 2010.
• "The Persistent Objector Rule in International Law" staff seminar, University of Reading, 16 June 2010.
• "Objections to the Persistent Objector Rule" presented at the International Law Association British Branch Annual Conference, Oxford Brookes University, 15 April 2010.
• "The Caroline Incident of 1837 and the Modern International Law Governing Self-Defence" presented at the Second Biennial General Conference of the Asian Society of International Law, Tokyo, Japan, 2 August 2009.
• "The Russian Claim of Self-Defence" presented at the Conflict in the Caucasus: Implications for International Legal Order Conference, at the University of Reading (co-sponsored by the Centre for Transnational Law and Justice at the University of Windsor), 15 April 2009.
• "International Law and the Use of Force in Self-Defence" presented at the University of Cambridge, Madingley Hall, to delegates from HM armed forces, 4 February 2009.
• "The Objective Nature of Self-Defence in International Law" presented at the Faculty of Law, University of Windsor, Canada, 7 February 2008.
• "Understanding the Relevance of the Caroline Formula Today" presented at the Law Research Unit of the Athens Institute for Education and Research, 4th International Conference on Law, 16 July 2007.
• "The Clarification of Self-Defence: Proposals Old and New" presented at the Julius Stone Centenary Conference, University of Sydney, Australia, 7 July 2007.
• "DRC v. Uganda: Fluctuating Evidentiary Standards for Self-Defence?" presented at the Public International Law Research Symposium at the University of Edinburgh, 24 May 2006.

Qualifications:

LLB (Hons) (Reading), LLM by thesis (Reading); PhD (Nottingham)

Biographical Details:

James joined the School of Law as a Lecturer in 2006 and was promoted to Reader in Public International Law in 2011. Previously, he studied for his doctorate at the University of Nottingham and, in 2005, was a visiting research scholar at the University of Michigan. James' primary research interests are the international law on the use of force (particularly self-defence), the International Court of Justice and the formation of customary international law. He is the author of The International Court of Justice and Self-Defence in International Law (Hart Publishing, 2009), which was the winner of the Francis Lieber Prize, awarded by the American Society of International Law's Lieber Society for an exceptional work in the field of law and armed conflict, as well as of various articles published in leading journals around the world. He is a member of the International Law Association Committee on the Use of Force and a co-investigator for the University of Reading's "123 Agreement Project". James is an alumnus of the University of Reading, having attained both his LLM (by thesis) and his LLB degrees here prior to his doctoral studies.