Ralph WILDE

Dr Ralph Wilde is an expert in international law, and works as an academic, as a member of the Law Faculty at University College London, University of London, and a legal consultant, including acting as counsel and advocate, on international law matters to states, international organizations and NGOs.  He previously served on the Executive bodies of the American and European Societies of International Law, and the International Law Association, has held visiting positions at Al Quds University in Palestine, CEU Budapest, Harvard, the Kenyon Institute in Al Quds, Melbourne, NYU, PUC-Rio de Janeiro,  UCLA, Yale, and the Xiamen Academy of International Law, and was the Peace Fellow at the Åland Islands Peace Institute. His academic work has covered, amongst other subjects, international territorial administration and the concept of trusteeship over people in international law, his Oxford University Press book on the subject being awarded the book prize of the American Society of International Law; and international law as it relates to Palestine and the Palestinian people, including articles in the Palestine Yearbook of International Law and the Journal of the History of International Law. His wide-ranging legal practice has included, on the subject of Palestine, providing expert legal opinions for the Palestinian Negotiation Support Unit to the PLO (on options for internationalization in the context of the then peace negotiations), the Swedish NGO Diakonia (on Israel and Palestine’s overlapping obligations in human rights law) the Palestinian NGO al-Haq (on various matters including UK liability arising out of the Mandate arrangements), and serving as sole Senior Counsel and Advocate for the 22 states of the Arab League in the United Nations General Assembly Advisory Opinion case concerning the legal rights of the Palestinian people and the legality of the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territory since 1967 before the International Court of Justice, involving him writing their submission and their response to the 56 submissions of the other parties, and delivering their oral argument to the Court (on which, see also here).