Andrea Bianchi

Full Professor of International Law at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva since 2002. 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 he 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.

Spoken Languages

English, French, Italian

Areas Of Expertise

• International Law Theory
• Treaty Interpretation
• Use of Force
• Armed conflicts, violence
• Human rights
• International humanitarian law
• Jurisdiction and Jurisdictional Immunities
• Terrorism and Counterterrorism
• International courts and tribunals

Selected Public Lectures :

• ‘Engaging with Theory’, Leiden University Faculty of Law, 12 October 2018.
• 'Expertise and its Discontents’, Graduate Institute Geneva (for the participants in the Europaeum Scholars Programme), Geneva, 21 June 2018.
• ‘The Unbearable Lightness of International Law’, Humboldt Unversität, Faculty of Law, 4 December 2017.
• 'International Law Theories’, The University of East Anglia School of Law, Norwich, 21 November 2017.
• ‘International Adjudication, Rhetoric and Storytelling’, Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, Cambridge 20 October 2017.
• ‘The Politics of the International Legal Law on the Use of Force’, Moscow State Institute for International Relations, Moscow, 27 September 2017.
• ‘Epistemic Communities in International Law’, Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, Cambridge (UK), 11 February 2016.
• ‘Interpretation beyond Rules’, organized jointly by the Faculty of Law of the University of Vienna and the Austrian Supreme Court, Vienna, 15 December 2015.