Marco Roscini

Marco Roscini is our Swiss IHL Chair and Professor of International Law at the University of Westminster, London.

Professor Roscini's current research areas include the international law of armed conflict, the use of force in international law, international cyber security law, nuclear non-proliferation law, and the history of international law.

Professor Roscini was previously a Research Fellow in International Law at the University of Verona. He lectured in international security law (jus contra bellum, law of armed conflict, and disarmament law) at University College London (UCL), King’s College London, Queen Mary University of London, and the Ecole des Relations Internationales.

He has published widely in the field of international security law. He is the author of Le zone denuclearizzate (Giappichelli 2003) and of Cyber Operations and the Use of Force in International Law (OUP 2014). He is also the co-editor of Non-proliferation Law as a Special Regime (CUP 2012). His scholarship has appeared or is forthcoming in important peer-reviewed journals as well as in several edited books. His publications have been widely cited in legal literature and judicial decisions.

Professor Roscini is a member of the International Law Association’s Committee on Nuclear Weapons, Non-proliferation and Contemporary International Law, of the ESIL Interest Groups on Peace and Security and on the History of International Law, and of the International Institute of Humanitarian Law. He is also on the Editorial Board of several scientific journals and book series.

He has a PhD from Sapienza University of Rome.