Professor Lindsay Moir

Professor Lindsay Moir

Professor of International Law

Faculty and Department

  • Faculty of Business, Law and Politics
  • The Law School

Qualifications

  • FHEA
  • LLB (University of Edinburgh)
  • LLM (University of Cambridge)
  • PhD / DPhil (University of Cambridge)

Summary

Professor Lindsay Moir is Professor of International Law. He is the longest-serving member of Law School staff, having joined the Law School as a Lecturer in 1997 after obtaining degrees from the University of Edinburgh (LLB) and the University of Cambridge (LLM, PhD).

Professor Moir was a Senior Lecturer from 2003-2005, and has been Professor of International Law since 2005. He served as Head of the Law School in 2003, and again from 2009-2012. Since then, he has held a series of leadership roles including Research Director, Postgraduate Research Director, Director of Student Experience and Admissions Director.

Professor Moir was a founding member and Deputy Director of the McCoubrey Centre for International Law, and has been responsible for the Law School's long-running and prestigious Josephine Onoh Memorial Lecture series since 2004. He has been awarded research funding from the British Academy, the Economic and Social Research Council and the Nuffield Foundation, has provided legal advice to foreign governments, and held a Visiting Fellowship at the International Human Rights Law Institute, DePaul University College of Law, Chicago.

He is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and is currently Research Director for the Law School.

Senior Fellow, Higher Education Academy

Undergraduate

- The Law of Armed Conflict (module leader)

- International Law

Postgraduate

- The Use of Force and Armed Conflict (module leader)

Recent outputs

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Book Chapter

Israeli air strikes in Syria, 2003 and 2007

Moir, L. (2018). Israeli air strikes in Syria, 2003 and 2007. In T. Ruys, O. Corten, & A. Hofer (Eds.), International law and the use of force: A case-based approach (662-672). Oxford University Press

The concept of non-international armed conflict

Moir, L. (2015). The concept of non-international armed conflict. In A. Clapham, P. Gaeta, & M. Sassòli (Eds.), The 1949 Geneva Conventions: A Commentary (391-414). Oxford University Press

Journal Article

The United Kingdom, Targeted Killing, International Humanitarian Law and International Human Rights Law

Moir, L. (in press). The United Kingdom, Targeted Killing, International Humanitarian Law and International Human Rights Law. Journal of international and comparative law, 12,

Reappraising Reprisals Against Enemy Civilians in Customary International Humanitarian Law

Moir, L. (2024). Reappraising Reprisals Against Enemy Civilians in Customary International Humanitarian Law. Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies, 15(2), https://doi.org/10.1163/18781527-bja10095

Reserving the objectionable: reprisals against enemy civilians, the United Kingdom and 1977 Additional Protocol I

Moir, L. (2023). Reserving the objectionable: reprisals against enemy civilians, the United Kingdom and 1977 Additional Protocol I. The Military Law and the Law of War Review, 61(2), 125-159. https://doi.org/10.4337/mllwr.2023.02.01

Research interests

Professor Moir is a leading expert in the international legal regulation of the use of force and armed conflict.

Postgraduate supervision

Professor Moir would be interested in supervising research students on topics in the field of public international law - particularly in relation to the use of force and the laws of armed conflict.

Current PhD students

- Samuel Adeleke, Modern Warfare: IHL, Cyber Conflicts and Ethical Considerations

- Adebayo Akinbisehin, Media Law and Freedom of Expression in Nigeria

- Nchimunya Ng'andu, Detention in Non-international Armed Conflict

- Johnmary Jideobi, Counterterrorism, International Law and the Rule of Law: Nigeria and the UK

Completed PhDs

- Fortune Ezeah, Protecting Non-heterosexual Rights in Africa

- Nneka Okechukwu, The International Legal Framework of Peace Agreements: Power-sharing and its Role in Ending Conflicts in Africa

- Carmino Massarella, Maritime Piracy and International Law

- Maryam Tehrani, Gender Discrimination in Islamic Law

- Cailin Mackenzie, International Human Rights Law and the Corporal Punishment of Children

- Niranjini Vivekananthan, The International Legal Protection of Civilians Displaced by Non-International Armed Conflict

- Gary Wilson, A Study of the Options Available to the United Nations Security Council for the Taking of Military Enforcement Action

- Arturo Laurent, The Defendant, the State and the International Criminal Court: Proposals for a Viable Interdependence

- James Sweeney, Human Rights, Cultural Dialogue and the European Margin of Appreciation

- Hussain Al-Zahrani, Peaceful and Effective Modes of Defining Disputed or Uncertain International Boundaries, with Particular Reference to the Settlement of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's Land Boundaries

Awards and prizes

University of Hull Developing Leadership Award

2016

External examiner role

PhD External Examiner

2021

PhD External Examiner

2019

External Examiner

2018 - 2022

External Examiner

2015 - 2020

PhD External Examiner

2015

PhD External Examiner

2014

External Examiner

2013 - 2017

PhD External Examiner

2011

PhD External Examiner

2011

PhD External Examiner

2011

PhD External Examiner

2010

PhD External Examiner

2009

External Examiner

2004 - 2007

External Examiner

2004 - 2006

Funder panel member

Assessor

2011 - 2011

Assessor

2010 - 2010

Subject Adviser (International Law)

2004 - 2009

Government advisory role

(Foreign) Government Legal Advice

2013 - 2014

Journal editorial role

International Editorial Board Member

2012 - 2014

Consulting Editor

2005 - 2009

Journal peer reviewer

Independent reviewer

2003

Membership/Fellowship of professional body

Senior Fellow, Higher Education Academy

2024

Other

External Assessor for Professorial Promotion

2024

External Assessor for Professorial Promotion

2023

External Assessor for Professorial Promotion

2011

Independent Reviewer

2005

Research assessment service

REF External Assessor

2011 - 2012

Visiting/Invited Professor

Visiting Fellow

2002 - 2002

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