Dr Marco Roscini
Email: marco.roscini@kcl.ac.uk, mroscini@iol.it
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Dr Marco Roscini is Reader in international law at the University of Westminster School of Law. He has a PhD in international law from the University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’. Dr Roscini specialises in the international law of armed conflict (both jus ad bellum and jus in bello) and disarmament law. His book on nuclear weapon-free zones is so far the only book that comprehensively deals with nuclear weapon-free zones from an international law perspective. His scholarship has also appeared or is forthcoming in important peer-reviewed journals, including International and Comparative Law Quarterly, Journal of International Criminal Justice, Israel Law Review, Leiden Journal of International Law, Chinese Journal of International Law, Netherlands International Law Review, Max Planck Yearbook of United Nations Law, Heidelberg Journal of International Law, Revue générale de droit international public, as well as in several edited books. He is the co-editor, with Daniel H. Joyner, of Non-proliferation Law as a Special Regime (Cambridge University Press, 2012). His publications have been widely cited in legal literature and judicial decisions.
Dr Roscini was previously a Research Fellow at the University of Verona School of Law and lectured on the international law of armed conflict at UCL and Queen Mary University of London. He collaborated with the International Justice Project at the International Secretariat of Amnesty International, for which he prepared extensive commentaries on the implementation of the International Criminal Court’s Statute in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and in Italy. Dr Roscini also participated in several research projects that were granted funding from the Italian government, the most recent one focusing on immunities in international law. In 2002, he was awarded a German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) grant for a research stay at the Max-Planck Institut für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht, Heidelberg. He is currently the holder of a Leverhulme Research Fellowship for his research on cyber warfare.
Dr Roscini is a member of the International Law Association (ILA)’s Committee on Nuclear Weapons, Non-proliferation and Contemporary International Law and of the European Union Non-proliferation Consortium. In January 2009, he was appointed a member of the Peer Review College of the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), one of the main funders of academic research in the UK, for the period 2010-2013. He is also a peer reviewer in Italy’s eValuation of Quality of Research Exercise 2004-2010 and is in the Editorial Board of several scientific journals.
Dr Roscini is one of the core bloggers on Arms Control Law
Research
Dr Roscini's current research interests include the international law of armed conflict (in particular cyber warfare), non-proliferation law (in particular nuclear weapon-free zones and the WMD-free zone in the Middle East) and the fragmentation of international law..
Selected publications
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‘Negative Security Assurances in the Protocols Additional to the Treaties Establishing Nuclear Weapon-Free Zones’, in: H. Gärtner (ed.), Obama and the Bomb - The Vision of a World Free of Nuclear Weapons, Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2011, 129-147.
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'The UN Security Council and the Enforcement of International Humanitarian Law’, 43 Israel Law Review (2010)
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'World Wide Warfare: Jus ad bellum and the use of cyber force’, 14 Max Planck Yearbook of United Nations Law (2010), 85-130
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‘Neighbourhood Watch? The African Great Lakes Pact and ius ad bellum’, 69 Zeitschrift für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht (2009), 931-959 .
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‘Protection of Natural Environment in Time of Armed Conflict’, in: L. Doswald-Beck et al. (eds.), International Humanitarian Law – An Anthology, Nagpur: LexisNexis Butterworths, 2009, 155-179.
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'Something Old, Something New: The 2006 Semipalatinsk Treaty on a Nuclear Weapon-Free Zone in Central Asia', 7 Chinese Journal of International Law (2008), 593-624.
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‘Threats of Armed Force and Contemporary International Law’, 54 Netherlands International Law Review (2007), 229-277.
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‘Great Expectations: The Implementation of the Rome Statute in Italy’, 5 Journal of International Criminal Justice (2007), 493-512.
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‘La giurisdizione della Corte penale internazionale tra risoluzioni del Consiglio di sicurezza e accordi bilaterali di esenzione' (The International Criminal Courts jurisdiction between Security Council resolutions and bilateral exemption agreements), 23 Comunicazioni e Studi (2007), 311-346.
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‘The Efforts to Limit the International Criminal Courts Jurisdiction over nationals of Non-Party States: A Comparative Study’, 5 The Law and Practice of International Courts and Tribunals (2006), 495-527.
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‘Targeting and Contemporary Aerial Bombardment’, 54 International and Comparative Law Quarterly (2005), 411-444.
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‘I compiti delle Forze di pace dellUnione Europea’ (The tasks of the EU peace-keeping forces), in: N. Ronzitti (ed.), Le Forze di pace dellUnione Europea (The European Unions peacekeeping forces) (Catanzaro: Rubbettino, 2005), 49-79.
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Le zone denuclearizzate (Nuclear weapon-free zones) (Turin: Giappichelli, 2003), XVI-441 pp.
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‘The Navigational Rights of Nuclear Ships’, 15 Leiden Journal of International Law (2002), 251-265.
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‘La zone dénucléarisée du sud-est asiatique: problèmes de droit de la mer', 105 Revue générale de droit international public (2001), 617-645.
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‘La sesta Conferenza di riesame del Trattato sulla non proliferazione delle armi nucleari’ (The sixth Review Conference of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons), 55 La Comunità internazionale (2000), 661-685.
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‘La libertà di esprimere dichiarazioni razziste e blasfeme nella giurisprudenza della Corte europea dei diritti dell'uomo’ (Freedom of expression concerning blasphemous and racist opinions before the European Court of Human Rights), 11 Rivista internazionale dei diritti dell’uomo (1998), 95-118.