Marnie Lloydd

Dr Marnie Lloydd specialises in international law related to armed conflict, and humanitarian law and policy.

Marnie has extensive prior experience as a Delegate and Legal Adviser with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), representing the ICRC in Ethiopia, Sri Lanka, Chad, Afghanistan and the Democratic Republic of Congo, as well as at the Geneva headquarters where she advised on international law and institutional humanitarian policy in support of the ICRC's activities in the Middle East. Marnie also has prior experience in refugee law, minority rights and commercial law, having worked as a legal consultant for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), legal researcher with the European Centre for Minority Issues (Germany) and solicitor at Kensington Swan (Wellington).

Prior to joining the VUW Law Faculty in 2020, Marnie was the recipient of a DAAD Postgraduate Scholarship for LLM study in Germany (2002-2003) and the University of Melbourne's Human Rights Scholarship (2016-2020). At Melbourne Law School she undertook doctoral research as part of the Australian Research Council Laureate Program in International Law’s project on Civil War, Intervention and International Law, under the supervision of Professors Anne Orford and Martti Koskenniemi. Her project 'Persisting Tensions: The Framing of International Legal Debates on Foreign Fighting' considered the alternative framings and international legal responses surrounding a broad range of foreign fighting, revealing the powers and limits of the present predominant counterterrorism framing of foreign fighter issues. Part of that research was awarded the Melbourne Law School Graduate Research Degree Published Research Prize (2018). Marnie has taught and spoken on issues of international humanitarian law and the humanitarian sector, foreign fighting, arms control and humanitarian affairs with diverse audiences around the world, including UN staff, diplomats and military legal advisers.

Marnie is a member of New Zealand's IHL Committee, Associate-Director of the New Zealand Centre for Public Law, sits on the Board of Experts for the Asia-Pacific Journal of International Humanitarian Law, and supports the Red Cross National IHL Moot Court competition as a coach.