J C Smith Trust Fund Visiting Scholar Scheme
We are proud of our well-established post of JC Smith Trust Fund Visiting Scholar scheme, successfully welcoming visitors since 1990.
About the scholarship
The fund was established in honour of Professor Sir John Smith, a renowned authority in the field of English criminal law and a key figure in the establishment and development of the School of Law at the University of Nottingham.
Sir John served as the Head of the School of Law from 1956 to 1974 and again from 1977 to 1986.
JC Smith Trust Fund Visiting Scholar 2024/25 Professor Andrea Bianchi
Andrea Bianchi is Full Professor of International Law at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva since 2002. He was previously, full professor at the Catholic University in Milan, associate professor at the University of Parma, and professorial lecturer at the Johns Hopkins SAIS Bologna Centre.
His publications address topics that range from international legal theory and treaty interpretation, human rights and international humanitarian law, terrorism and counterterrorism, to the law of jurisdiction and jurisdictional immunities, state responsibility, non-state actors, and the law of treaties.
Andrea Bianchi has been a Visiting Professor at King’s College London, the University of Vienna Faculty of Law, the Catholic University in Milan and the University of Paris 1 (La Sorbonne). He has consulted for international organizations on matters related to security and human rights; and for multinational corporations on business and human rights issues.
In 2015 Professor Bianchi appeared as counsel before the European Court of Human Rights Grand Chamber in the Al-Dulimi case. Between 2010 and 2014 he served as a designated member of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Terrorism. He co-chaired (with Michael Wood) the working group on the use of force that led to the Leiden Policy Recommendations on Counterterrorism and International Law (2010). In 2001 he was among the founders of the European Society of International Law in which Executive Council he sat until 2010.
Previous visitors
The Visiting Scholarship allows distinguished scholars to visit the School of Law and engage with both staff and students.
Previous visitors have included:
- Professor Antony Duff (University of Stirling, 2019)
- Professor Keith Ewing (King's College London, 2018)
- Professor Hilary Charlesworth (University of Melbourne, 2017)
- Professor William Kovacic (Former Chairman, Federal Trade Commission and Professor of Law, George Washington University Law School, 2016)
- Professor Sandra Liebenberg (Stellenbosch University, 2015)
- Professor John Gardner (University of Oxford, 2014)
- Professor Peter Watts (University of Auckland, 2013)
- Professor JC McCrudden (Queen's University Belfast, 2012)
- Professor Patricia J. Williams (Columbia Law School, New York, 2011)
- Professor David Feldman (University of Cambridge, 2010)
- Professor Jonathan Simon (Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California at Berkeley, 2008)
- Professor Yoram Dinstein (Tel Aviv University, Israel, 2007)
- Professor Allan C. Hutchinson (Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Canada, 2006)
- Professor Andrew Ashworth QC (University of Oxford, 2006)
- Professor John Gardner (2004)
- Professor Karen Knop (University of Toronto, 2004)
- Professor Joseph Weiler (New York University, 2003)
- Professor Katerina Tomasevski (University of Lund, 2001)
- Professor Adrian Zuckerman (University of Oxford, 1998)
- Professor Hazel Genn (University College, London, 1995)
- Professor Francis Reynolds (University of Oxford, 1994)
- Sir Frank Berman (Legal Adviser to the Foreign Office, 1993)
- Jack Beatson (then a member of the Law Commission, 1992)
- Professor Peter Birks (University of Oxford, 1991)
- John Spencer (University of Cambridge, 1990)
Programme for the workshops