Roger O'Keefe

About/Bio

Roger O’Keefe is Professor of Public International Law at University College London. He has published widely on topics of general public international law, as well in the subfields of international criminal law, international humanitarian law, international human rights law, and international cultural heritage law. His most recent book, International Criminal Law (OUP), appeared in July 2015.

Recently Published

Curriculum vitae: A Prequel (Part II)

This is the second part of the inaugural lecture of Roger O’Keefe, Professor of Public International Law at University College London (Part I is available here). In the lecture he teases out some recurrent international legal problems through the story of the life and opinions of D. H. G. H.-G. Salamander, lesser highly qualified publicist and minor poet.

Read more

Curriculum vitae: A Prequel (Part I)

In his inaugural lecture, Roger O’Keefe, Professor of Public International Law at University College London, teases out some recurrent international legal problems through the story of the life and opinions of D. H. G. H.-G. Salamander, lesser highly qualified publicist and minor poet. All characters depicted in this tale are fictional, sort of. Any resemblance…

Read more

Immunity ratione materiae from extradition proceedings: A rejoinder to Thiago Braz Jardim Oliveira

Roger O'Keefe is University Senior Lecturer and Deputy Director of the Lauterpacht Research Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge. Before I engage with the substance of Thiago Braz Jardim Oliveira’s excellent reply to my British Yearbook of International Law casenote and Oxford talk (available here) on the…

Read more