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Christian Henderson

Professor of International Law, University of Sussex

Chris Henderson joined the University of Sussex as Chair of International Law in 2015. Prior to coming to Sussex he was Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Liverpool and obtained his PhD from the University of Nottingham. His research and teaching interests are in public international law, in particular international law governing the use of force, collective security, human rights and international humanitarian law. He is co-editor-in-chief of the Journal on the Use of Force and International Law, a general editor of the Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies, a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of The Hague Justice Journal, a member of the International Law Association Committee on the Use of Force, and on the Advisory Council for the Institute for International Peace and Security Law (University of Cologne, Germany).

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    Professor of International Law, University of Sussex