Dr Leon Sosnowski
Biography
Leon is an experienced lawyer (solicitor, England & Wales) and lead counsel for a global sovereign fund. Prior to his current role, he gained extensive experience in global risk consulting and as an international lawyer.
Leon holds an LLB (Hons), LPC, and BSc in Politics and International Relations, and has completed an MA in Legal & Political Theory with Distinction at University College London (UCL) and a PhD from the Department of War Studies at King’s College London (KCL).
Leon’s PhD thesis, ‘The Normative and the Political: Sovereignty and the International Order after Kelsen, Schmitt, and Morgenthau’, was supervised by Professors Richard Ned Lebow and Christoph Kletzer and examined by Professors William E. Scheuerman and Michael C. Williams.
Research Interests
Leon’s research brings together international relations, law, and political theory to explore questions of political authority and its breakdown
- International law and sovereignty
- Political order, authority, and legitimacy
- Breakdown of political order, including war, revolution, resistance, and terrorism