Kevin W. Gray

About/Bio

Kevin W. Gray is Assistant Professor of Law at Peking University School of Transnational Law, as well as an appellate litigator and arbitrator with the Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration. He holds a PhD from Laval University in Legal and Political Philosophy (2011), a JD from Osgoode Hall Law School (2020), and an LLM from Columbia Law School (2022). He was previously a Dean Acheson Fellow and Judicial Law Clerk for Judge Inga Reine of the Court of Justice of the European Union.

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The Award in Rwanda versus the United Kingdom: The PCA’s Interpretation of VCLT, Article 13

The PCA’s Award in the arbitration between Rwanda and the United Kingdom, decided on May 15, 2026, was released on June 1, 20226. The arbitration related to the decision by the incoming Labour Government to cancel the Agreement between the United Kingdom and Rwanda (formally the Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Rwanda and the…

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Unrecognized Governments and the ICC Redux: Could Afghanistan Withdraw from the Rome Statute?

In January 2025, the Office of the Prosecutor applied for warrants to arrest Haibatullah Akhundzada, the Supreme Leader of the Taliban and de facto leader of Afghanistan, and Abdul Hakim Haqqani, the Chief Justice of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, for the crime against humanity of persecution on gender grounds under article 7(1)(h) of the…

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