Dr Saeed Bagheri

Email:
saeed.bagheri@reading.ac.uk
Phone:
0118 378 4366
Job title:
Lecturer in International Law

Responsibilities:

Convenor for The Use of Military Force (LWMTUM)
Convenor for Law of Armed Conflict (International Humanitarian Law) (LWMTAC)
Director of Academic Tutoring (PGT)
Provides students with academic support during assigned hours and classes.
Teaches and researches in public international law, the use of force, international humanitarian law, international human rights law, public law, peacebuilding and post-conflict justice.

Areas of interest

Public international law
Use of force
International humanitarian law
International human rights law
International criminal law
Peacebuilding and post-conflict justice

Postgraduate supervision

Saeed welcomes proposals from prospective doctoral students with an interest in international humanitarian law, the law on the use of force, and international human rights law.

Teaching

Saeed currently teaches the following modules on the LLB and LLM programmes:

LLB: International Human Rights Law; Public Law I; Public Law II; Legal Skills; Foundations of International Law; Research Project

LLM: Law of Armed Conflict (International Humanitarian Law) (module convenor); The Use of Military Force (module convenor); Dissertation

Research centres and groups

Global Law at Reading (GLAR)

Background

Dr Saeed Bagheri is Lecturer in International Law at the University of Reading, School of Law, where he has also held a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship from 2019-2021. He is the Director of Academic Tutoring (PGT).

Prior to joining the University of Reading, Saeed was a Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow at the European University Institute (EUI) from 2017-2019. During the currency of his post at the EUI, he worked on a project relating to the legal validity of the use of force against armed non-state actors.

Saeed conducts research in the law on the use of force, international humanitarian law, and international human rights law and teaches across a range of modules on the law programs. His main research path explores the contradictions in the application of the law on the use of force and international humanitarian law. He is the author of International Law and the War with Islamic State: Challenges for Jus ad Bellum and Jus in Bello (Oxford, Hart Publishing, 1st edition, 2021).

Saeed has held visiting positions, including Visiting Fellow at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge (Summer 2018), Visiting Lecturer at the University College London (Spring 2018), and Visiting Fellow at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies at Leiden University Law School (Spring 2018). Prior to his postdoctoral positions, he was an Assistant Professor at Akdeniz University from 2015-2017.

Saeed is Co-Convener of the Interest Group on Peace and Security of the European Society of International Law (ESIL), and a member of the British Branch of the International Law Association, and the Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law (ANZSIL).

Academic qualifications

DPhil (Ankara)
LLM (Tehran)
BA (Tabriz)

Awards and honours

The Best Article Prize (administered by Hart Publishing and the Irish Yearbook of International Law) for the article ‘Military assistance and state responsibility for ‘in bello’ violations during non-international armed conflicts’ (April 2023).
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Reading, School of Law (2019-2021)
Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow, European University Institute (EUI) (2017-2019)
Visiting Fellow, Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge (2018)
Visiting Fellow, Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies, Leiden University (2018)
Fully Funded PhD Studentship in Public International Law - The Scientific, and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) (2011-2014)

Professional bodies/affiliations

Co-Convener of the Interest Group on Peace and Security of the European Society of International Law (ESIL) (2022 - present)
Member of the British Branch of the International Law Association (ILA)
Member of Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law (ANZSIL)
Regional Correspondent for the Oxford Human Rights Hub, University of Oxford
Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Economics, Law and Policy (Scholink)
Fellow, Higher Education Academy (HEA)
A Europe Regional Coordinator for the Journal on the Use of Force and International Law’s Digest of State Practice (2022 - present)

Further publications

2018

Bagheri S. (2018) The Constitutional Referendum to Create the New Republic of Artsakh in Nagorno-Karabakh: An International Law. European University Institute Max Weber Working Paper.
Bagheri, S. (2018) ‘Iran-US Tensions and Contradictory Approaches to the International Legal Obligations’,Euronews.
Bagheri, S. (2018) ‘The Iranian Military Intervention in Syria as a Matter of Jus Contra Bellum?’, Leiden Law Blog.
Bagheri, S. (2018) ‘Human Rights and Iran in 2018’, Australian Outlook.
Bagheri, S. (2018) ‘Understanding the Scattered Anti-Government Uprisings in Iran: Willing to Regime Change or Legitimate Demands for Socio-Economic Human Rights?’, Cambridge International Law Journal

2017

Bagheri, S. (2017) The Military Use of Children by the Syrian-Iraqi Salafi-Jihadist Group. Russian Law Journal, 5 (1) pp. 79-97.
Bagheri, S. (2017) ‘Self-Defence Against the PKK? The Turkish Approach to International Law’, Völkerrechtsblog.
Bagheri, S. (2017) ‘Civilian Victims of the Conflicts Over Oil Refineries in Kirkuk’, Oxford Human Rights Hub Blog.
Bagheri, S. (2017) ‘An Iraqi Kurdish Independence Referendum’, Oxford Human Rights Hub Blog.
Bagheri, S. (2017) ‘Iran’s Aspiration to Establish Peace and Security in the Middle East: Closer to Hegemony or International Law?’, Denver Journal of International Law and Policy (online).
Bagheri, S. (2017) ‘Women in the Iranian Labour Market: Infringement of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights’, Oxford Human Rights Hub Blog.
Bagheri, S. (2017) ‘Can President Rouhani Promote Human Rights in Iran?’, Oxford Human Rights Hub Blog.
Bagheri, S. (2017) ‘Is the Turkish Constitutional Referendum a Reflection of Democracy?’, Oxford Human Rights Hub Blog.
Bagheri, S. (2017) ‘Time to Rethink the Continuing State of Emergency in Turkey’, Denver Journal of International Law and Policy (online).
Bagheri, S. (2017) ‘Iran’s Ballistic Missile Tests: Legal and Political Challenges’, Völkerrechtsblog.
Bagheri, S. (2017) ‘Derogating from Fundamental Human Rights under the Turkish State of Emergency’, Oxford Human Rights Hub Blog.
Bagheri, S. (2017) ‘Turkish Military Intervention in Mosul: A Legal and Political Perspective’, EJIL: Talk!

2016

Bagheri, S. (2016) Uluslararası İnsancıl Hukuk ve Nükleer Silahlar. Adalet, Ankara, ss230. ISBN 605146705X, 9786051467054 (in Turkish).
Bagheri, S. (2016) ‘International Humanitarian Law and Counterterrorism: Turkey and the PKK’, Foreign Policy Association.
Bagheri, S. (2016) ‘Iran-U.S. Confrontation in the Persian Gulf: An International Law Perspective’, Foreign Policy Association.

2015

Bagheri, S. (2015) ‘Nuclear Disarmament in the Context of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT): A Humanitarian Perspective’, Global Research: Centre for Research on Globalization (23 October 2015).
Bagheri, S. (2015) The Legal Framework of the Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy: The Possibilities and Limitations. Energy and Diplomacy Journal, 1 (4). pp. 116-141.

2014

Bagheri, S. (2014) International Humanitarian Law and the Use of Nuclear Weapons against Terrorism. Gazi University Faculty of Law Review 18, (3-4). pp. 931-954.

2013

Bagheri, S. (2013) Evaluating the Decision of International Court of Justice Concerning the Oil Platforms. Gazi University Faculty of Law Review, 17 (1-2). pp. 1155-1180.
Bagheri, S. (2013) Extradition and the Obligation to Prosecute of Offenders in International Law (aut dedere aut judicare). Ankara University Faculty of Law Review, 62 (1). pp. 1-40.
Bagheri, S. (2013) Iran and the Law of the Sea: Current Debates. Erzincan University Faculty of Law Review, 17 (3-4). pp. 155-182.

2012

Bagheri, S. (2012) Extradition in the Practice of European Court of Human Rights and Human Rights Committee of UN Journal of Legal Research, 11 (2). pp. 25-52 (in Persian).

Selected conference papers and presentations

“The Return of Displaced Persons to Conflict-affected Territories”, 2022 London International Boundary Conference, King's College London, London, December 13, 2022.
“Structural Inequalities in Conflict-Affected Societies”, 16th Max Weber Conference on Perspectives on Global Crises: Challenges and Opportunities, European University Institute (EUI), Florence, Italy, June 16, 2022.
“Iran and Child Soldiers in the Syrian Civil War: A Study on the Refugee Children Recruited by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps”, 14^th Max Weber Conference on a Time for Anxiety - Mobility and Immobility across Societies, European University Institute (EUI), Florence, Italy, 19 June 2020.
“The Role of the Kurdish Women in Decision-Making Process in Post-Islamic State Iraq: A Case for Gender Equality in Post-War Societies”, presented at the Inaugural Edinburgh-Glasgow International Law Workshop, Edinburgh, UK, 8-9 April 2019.
“The Role of the Kurdish Identity in Falling the Islamic State War in Iraq and the Peace-Building Process in the Post-Islamic State Iraq”, presented at the International Conference on “Identity and Memory in War and Peacebuilding”, Liverpool Hope University, Liverpool, UK, 2nd July 2018.
“The Legal Aspects of War to Peace Transitions in Post-Islamic State Iraq”, presented at the 12th Max Weber Conference on the States, Societies and Crises Across Time and Space, European University Institute (EUI), Florence, Italy, 13 June 2018.
“From the Failed Disarmament Policy of the Non-Proliferation Regime to the Rise of New Nuclear Powers”, presented at the International Peace Studies Conference, Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS), Vienna, Austria, 29 May 2018.
“The Peace-Building Role of the Natural/Energy Resource Management in Post-Islamic State Iraq”, presented at the Conference on the Nature of Peace, Pufendorf Institute of Advanced Studies, Lund University, Lund, Sweden, 26 April 2018.
“The Quest for Energy Resources as a Source of Armed Conflicts in the Middle East: An International Law Perspective”, presented at the Max Weber Lecture/Presentations, European University Institute (EUI), Florence, Italy, 12-21 September 2017.

Recent events organised

The Changing Perceptions of the Use of Force in the Contemporary World, Interest Group on Peace and Security of the European Society of Internatinal Law (ESIL) pre-conference workshop in Tartu, Estonia, 24 April 2023 (organiser).
UN Involvement in Afghanistan: Where Next for the International Community, Global Law at Reading and the Afghan and Central Asian Association, 16 May 2022 (chair).
27^th Annual Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law on “International Law Futures: The Intersection of Law with Knowledge, Information and Expertise”, Crawford School of Policy, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, 4-6 July 2019 (co-organiser).
Multidisciplinary Workshop on “The Role of Image Making in the Prevention of Violence”, European University Institute, Florence, Italy, 7 May 2018 (co-organiser).
4^th Annual International Peace and Security Interest Group (IPSIG) Workshop, TC Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, 2 April 2018 (co-organiser).
25^th Annual Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law on “Sustaining the International Legal Order in an Era of Rising Nationalism”, Canberra, Australia, 29 June -1 July 2017 (co-organiser).

Invited talks and lectures

Invited Talk: Panel discussion on 'The Use of Force and International Law’, BUL International Law Group, Brunel University London (January 18, 2023).
Invited Talk: Guest speaker on ‘Protests in Iran’, Oxford Human Rights Hub’s Right Up, The University of Oxford Faculty of Law (November 25, 2022).
Invited Talk: Roundtable discussion on ‘The Iranian Uprising’, Manchester International Law Centre (MILC), The University of Manchester Law School (November 15, 2022).
Invited Talk: Panel discussion on 'Women, Life, Freedom' in Iran: From Protest to Revolution?’, Nottingham Trent University School of Social Sciences and Nottingham Law School (November 2, 2022).
Guest Lecture: ‘Use of Force in International Law’, University College London (UCL) (May 15, 2018).