Sir Daniel Bethlehem QC

Daniel Bethlehem is a Visiting Professor in the Department of War Studies.  He is a barrister and arbitrator specialising in public international law from chambers at 20 Essex Street in London.  He is a member of the UK Foreign Secretary’s “Locarno Group” of external adviser on UK foreign policy issues, of the U.S. State Department’s Advisory Committee on International Law, and a Consulting Senior Fellow for Law and Strategy at The International Institute for Strategic Studies.  He has a long-standing affiliation with Columbia University Law School in New York.

Areas of Expertise

•  Public International Law

•  The system of international law

Biography

From May 2006 to May 2011, Daniel Bethlehem was the principal Legal Adviser of the UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office.  He returned to private practice at the London Bar following the end of his FCO tenure.  Prior to his appointment to the FCO, he was a practising barrister from chambers in London, Director of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law at Cambridge University and a Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge.  Before that, he taught international law at the London School of Economics.

Further details can be found at: http://www.20essexst.com/member/daniel-bethlehem