Staff Profile:Dr. Robert P. Barnidge Jr.

Name:

Dr Robert P. Barnidge Jr

Job Title:

Lecturer

Responsibilities:

Dr. Robert P. Barnidge Jr. currently teaches the following courses:

LLB:  International Law, Constitutional and Administrative Law

LLM: International Law in Theory and Practice, Contemporary Issues in International Law, International Law and Terrorism, International Law and Nuclear Energy, Research Methods

Areas of Interest:

Public International Law, International Humanitarian Law, International Human Rights Law, United Nations Law, State Responsibility, Terrorism

Research groups / Centres:

Publications:

• "Qualified Defence of American Drone Attacks in Northwest Pakistan Under International Humanitarian Law " (2012), 30(2) Boston University International Law Journal (in press)
• "The 2008 United States-India Nuclear Cooperation Agreement and the Work of the International Law Commission on International Liability for Injurious Consequences Arising out of Acts Not Prohibited by International Law" (2012), 2(1) Asian Journal of International Law (in press) 
• "The Principle of Proportionality Under International Humanitarian Law and Operation Cast Lead", in New Battlefields/Old Laws: From the Hague Convention to Asymmetric Warfare (William C. Banks ed., in press, 2011)
• "The Socratic Method in the Teaching of International Law: An American Perspective" (2010), Canadian Legal Education Annual Review/Revue de l'Enseignement du Droit au Canada 229
• "Islam and International Humanitarian Law; A Question of Compatibility?" (2010), 40 Israel Yearbook on Human Rights 257
• "The United Nations and the African Union: Assessing a Partnership for Peace in Darfur" (2009), 14(1) Journal of Conflict and Security Law 93
• "Neocolonialism and International Law, With Specific Reference to Customary Counterterrorism Obligations and the Principle of Self-Defence" (2009), 49(1) Indian Journal of International Law 21
• "Questioning the Legitimacy of Jus Cogens in the Global Legal Order" (2008), 38 Israel Yearbook on Human Rights 199 
• "War and Peace: Negotiating Meaning in Islam" (2008), 1(2) Critical Studies on Terrorism 263
• "Non-State Actors and Terrorism: Applying the Law of State Responsibility and the Due Diligence Principle" (2008), T.M.C. Asser Press, distributed by Cambridge University Press

  For a full list of publications (PDF File 21.6Kb).

Recent Conference Papers:

• A Qualified Defense of American Drone Attacks in Northwest Pakistan Under International Humanitarian Law in Light of the Alston Report" (2011), Global Governance: Political Authority in Transition Conference, International Studies Association, Montreal
• Participated in roundtable discussions about the lawfulness of pilotless drone attacks in northwest Pakistan at the National Defence University, the Pakistan Institute for Peace Studies, and the Research Society of International Law, Islamabad, Pakistan, 14-15 December 2010
• "The United States-India Nuclear Cooperation Agreement, the International Law Commission, and International Liability for Injurious Consequences Arising Out of Acts Not Prohibited By International Law: Theory and Practice" (2010), Energy Security and Its Impacts on the International Legal System Conference, British Institute of International and Comparative Law, London
• Speaker on panels dedicated to "Israel/Palestine", "Non-Proliferation", and "Iran" (2010), Annual Frank Church Symposium: The Middle East: Today and Tomorrow, Idaho State University, Pocatello, Idaho
• "The Law of Proportionality and the Israel-Hamas War of 2009" (2010), Middle East and Mediterranean Studies Programme, King's College London
• "Examining the Prospects and Possibilities of a New Dispensation to Bridge Islam and International Humanitarian Law" (2009), Islam and International Humanitarian Law Workshop, Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism, Syracuse University, New York

For a full list of recent conferences papers (PDF File 17.9Kb).

Other:

• "International Law and the Hamas-Fatah Doha Deal," Jerusalem Post, 19 February 2012
• "International Law and the Flotilla II," Chicago Tribune, 3 July 2011
• "Rule of Law Allows Killing of Muammar Qadhafi," Politico, 4 May 2011
• "Israel Versus Iran: Would a First Strike Be Lawful?," Washington Times, 6 August 2010 
• "Moammar Kaddafis Grove Trusler; Opfordringen til Jihad mod Schweiz er en Klar Overtrdelse af International Lovgivning (Moammar Kaddafi's Grave Threat: The Call for Jihad Against Switzerland is a Clear Violation of International Law)", (PDF File 500Kb), Jyllands-Posten, 16 March 2010
• "U.N. Fact-Finding Mission: A Case of Politicizing the Law", Washington Times, 30 September 2009
• "'Islamophobia' and the Silencing of Dissent", Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa, 5 October 2008

Qualifications:

BA (Notre Dame), JD (Chapel Hill), LLM (Amsterdam), PhD (Belfast), Attorney (Missouri)

Biographical Details

Dr. Barnidge joined the School of Law in 2007.  His doctoral research explored issues related to non-state actors, state responsibility, and the due diligence principle in the context of the fight against terrorism.  Dr. Barnidge has participated in the Hague Academy of International Law as a student in the public international law course (2005) and as a participant in the Centre for Studies and Research in International Law and International Relations (2006).  He has been the Book Review Editor of the Irish Yearbook of International Law and an Articles and Notes Editor of the North Carolina Journal of Law and Technology for a year each and currently serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of the Middle East and Africa.  He has been a visiting lecturer at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, Israel (2008) and Uppsala University (2009) and participated in a ten day "Defending Democracy Defeating Terrorism" academic fellowship in Israel in June 2009 awarded by the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.  Dr Barnidge is the Principal Investigator for a British Academy UK-South Asia Partnership grant studying "India, the 123 Agreement, and Nuclear Energy: Issues of International Law" as part of a team of legal scholars at Reading and the Tamil Nadu Dr. Ambedkar Law University, Chennai, and has been awarded a Leverhulme Trust grant to study  as part of an interdisciplinary team at Reading.