Matthew Nicholson

Biography

Matthew joined Durham Law School as Lecturer in International Law in September 2016. Before joining Durham he worked at the University of Southampton as Lecturer in Public International Law (2012-2016). Past experience includes work as a Teaching Fellow (LLB, Public International Law) at UCL (2010-11), and Research Assistant at the LSE (Grantham Research Institute / ESRC Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy, 2009-10). Matthew completed pupillage in London and subsequently worked at the London office of a national law firm (he no longer practices). Matthew's work has been published in specialist and generalist law journals with international reach. His 2015 article 'The Political Unconscious of the English Foreign Act of State and Non-Justiciability Doctrine(s)' won the International and Comparative Law Quarterly's 'Young Scholar Prize' (see http://www.biicl.org/newsitem/youngscholar2015 for details). He has also published in Law and Literature, Law and Critique, and the Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly.

Research Interest

His research and teaching interests cover all aspects of international law, with particular interests in international legal theory (see the 2016 Law and Critique article, for example), international environmental law and policy (climate change in particular), the relationship between national and international law (see the 2015 ICLQ article), international human rights law (see the 2016 Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly article), and the law on the use of force.