Professor of Public International Law and BarristerTwenty Essex
Professor Philippa Webb is a barrister at Twenty Essex and Professor of Public International Law at King’s College London, where she is Director of the Centre for International Governance and Dispute Resolution. She is a specialist in public international law and appears in domestic and international courts, including the International Court of Justice, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, the European Court of Human Rights and the UK Supreme Court. She is appointed to the United Kingdom Attorney General’s Public International Law Panel of Counsel and is a founding board member of the Clooney Foundation for Justice. Philippa has held positions in the Presidency of the International Court of Justice, the International Criminal Court and in United Nations Headquarters. She was shortlisted for 2022 “Barrister of the Year” by The Lawyer magazine. Her publications include Freedom of Speech in International Law (2024, chapters on insulting speech and false speech, A Clooney & D Neuberger eds), The Right to a Fair Trial in International Law (2021, with A Clooney) and Oppenheim’s International Law: United Nations (2017, with Dame Rosalyn Higgins GBE KC, D Akande, S Sivakumaran and J Sloan). Her treatise, The Law of State Immunity (2015, with Lady Fox KC) has been cited by leading courts around the world. https://www.linkedin.com/in/pwebb/