Professor Ryszard Piotrowicz

Professor
LL,B (Hons) Dundee, Dip. Int'l Law Thessaloniki, Ph.D Glasgow Photograph of Professor Ryszard Piotrowicz.

Contact

Email: ryp@aber.ac.uk
Office: Room D24
Phone: +44 1970 621657

Teaching Areas

  • Public International Law
  • International Humanitarian Law
  • Immigration and Asylum Law
  • Torts

Postgraduate Supervision:

All areas of International Law but particularly Refugee Law, People Trafficking, International Humanitarian Law, International Criminal Law, Law and Gender, Torts

Research

International Law, International Humanitarian Law, Nationality, Refugee Law, Trafficking and Smuggling of Human Beings. 

Biography

Professor of Law at Aberystwyth since 1999.

Previously taught at the Universities of Glasgow, Durham and Tasmania.

Alexander-Von-Humboldt Research Fellow, Max-Planck-Institut für aus. öff. Recht und Völkerrecht, Heidelberg (1991, 1992).

Dean, Faculty of Law, University of Tasmania (1996-1998).

DAAD Visiting Research Fellow, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt Universität Greifswald (1997).

Alexander-Von-Humboldt Research Fellow, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt Universität Greifswald (1999).

Visiting Professor in European and International Law, University of Tasmania (2001).

Parsons Fellow, University of Sydney (2003).

Visiting Professor in International Law, University of Adelaide (2007).

Visiting Professor in Migration and Refugee Law, Viadrina University, Frankfurt (Oder) (2008).

Visiting Professor in International Law, Masaryk University, Brno (2008). 


Consultant to several international organisations and states on people trafficking and refugee law.

Guest lecturer on IHL for the International Committee of the Red Cross and Polish Red Cross, (International Humanitarian Law Summer School, Warsaw), as well as the Red Cross Societies of Romania, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Germany.

Guest lectures and papers at many universities and institutions in the UK, Germany, Poland, Czech Republic, Uzbekistan, Romania, Malta, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Australia, Russia, Turkey, Hungary, Norway, Moldova, Switzerland, Italy, Netherlands, Belgium, Macedonia, USA, Slovenia, Israel, Sweden, Luxembourg, Greece, New Zealand, Taiwan, Austria, Spain, Finland, Qatar and South Africa.



Additional Interests

Member, European Commission Group of Experts on Trafficking in Human Beings since 2008; reappointed 2011.

Participated in the UNHCR’s Global Consultations Programme as a nominee of the Australian Government (2001).

Judge at the Martens International Humanitarian Law Moot, Tashkent 2002 and Moscow 2004, ICRC International Humanitarian Law Moot, Budapest 2004 and 2005 and Ljubljana 2006, Moldova 2005, Pictet Moot - Vrnacka Banja 2006, ICRC - Israel 2007, ICRC - Sarajevo 2010, 2011, 2012.

Editor and principal contributor of International Focus (Australian Law Journal).

Member, Editorial Board, Australian Year Book of International Law.

Book Reviews Editor, International Journal of Refugee Law.

Member, Editorial Advisory Boards, Acta Societais Martensis (Estonia) and Silesian Journal of Legal Studies (Poland).

World record holder, Berlin Marathon (in category).

 

Staff Publications

Books

Co-author: The Unification of Germany in International and Domestic Law (Rodopi, 225pp, 1997).

Co-author and Co-editor: Public International Law: An Australian Perspective (OUP, 436pp, 1997; 2nd edition, 2005).

Co-author: Human Rights in International and Australian Law (Butterworths, 294pp, 2000).

Co-author and Co-editor: International Military Missions and International Law (Martinus Nijhoff, 2011).

 

Recent Publications

'International Military Missions and International Law' (co-editor and co-author) (Brill, 2011).

'Human Trafficking and Smuggling', in Opeskin, Perruchoud and Redpath-Cross (eds), 'Foundations of International Migration Law' (CUP, 2012) pp 234-259

'States' obligations under Human Rights Law towards Victims of Trafficking in Human Beings. Positive Developments in Positive Obligations', (2012) 24 International Journal of Refugee Law 181-201

Published in : British Yearbook of International Law, International & Comparative Law Quarterly, International Journal of Refugee Law, Torts Law Journal, Netherlands International Law Review, Statute Law Review, Australian Law Journal, Polish Yearbook of International Law, Australian Year Book of International Law, Review of Socialist law, Environmental and Planning Law Journal, Intercultural Human Rights Law Review. 

Recent Conference Presentations

'The new EU Directive on trafficking: a challenge to the human rights of victims?' Critical Legal Conference, Stockholm, September 2012

'The empowerment of trafficked people: from theory to reality', OSCE Alliance against Trafficking in Persons Conference, Vienna, October 2012