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Ralph Wilde

Visiting Professor

BSc (Econ.) International Relations, London School of Economics, University of London, 1995
LL.M. Cambridge University, 1999
Ph.D. Cambridge University, 2003

Ralph Wilde has been a member of the Law Faculty at University College London (UCL), University of London since July 2002. He was formerly a supervisor in International Law at Trinity, Corpus Christi and St. Edmund’s Colleges, Cambridge, a guest lecturer at the Cambridge University Law Faculty and the Henry fellow and visiting scholar at Yale Law School. Since joining UCL, Professor Wilde has also been a visiting professor at the University of Texas Law School, an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center and a senior global research fellow at NYU School of Law.
 
Professor Wilde is an expert in public international law, and also has an interest in the interface between international law and related academic disciplines, including international relations and legal and political theory. He is a leading authority internationally on the administration of territory by international organizations and the concept of trusteeship in international law and public policy.  His monograph on this topic, International Territorial Administration: How Trusteeship and the Civilizing Mission Never Went Away (OUP, 2008) won the Certificate of Merit (book prize) of the American Society of International Law in 2009. His current research also focuses on the extraterritorial application of human rights law.  His publications on this topic include “Legal ‘Black Hole’?:  Extraterritorial state action and international treaty law on civil and political rights” 26(3) Michigan Journal of International Law 739 – 806 (2005).  
 
For his research, Professor Wilde has been awarded grants from the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), the British Academy and the Nuffield Foundation, and a research fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust. In 2010, the UK Leverhulme Trust awarded him a Philip Leverhulme Prize.
 
He speaks regularly at academic events on a range of international law topics, and plays an active role in organizing such events. Professor Wilde also works as a consultant on international law to individuals, governments, international organizations, NGO’s and other clients.