Antonios Tzanakopoulos

Thanks for your kind words. I have posted the interview in this thread: bsky.app/profile/atza...

YouTube video by Antonios Tzanakopoulos Legality of Use of Force against Iran

You can watch it here: youtu.be/KmXuuD0mxgI

I’ve had a spirited chat with @iaindale.bsky.social on @lbc.co.uk regarding the legality of the use of force against Iran.

You can read our brief here: www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...

With a number of colleagues from across Europe we submitted a brief as amici to the US Supreme Court in Exxon Mobil v CIMEX.

Parliamentlive.tv Foreign Affairs Committee

Here is the link to the video of the full session: parliamentlive.tv/event/index/...

With Janina Dill @janinadill.bsky.social we gave oral evidence to the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee on the use of force in Venezuela.

Join us for the first lecture of the new term: 1 pm Fri 23 January 2026: 'Marxist Insights for International Law' with Prof Antonios Tzanakopoulos. Sandwich lunch from 12.30 pm. All welcome to attend. Further information: https://www.lcil.cam.ac.uk/press/events/2026/01/friday-lecture-marxist-insights-international-law-prof-antonios-tzanakopoulos-university-oxford

Join us for the first lecture of the new term: 1 pm Fri 23 January 2026: 'Marxist Insights for International Law' with Prof Antonios Tzanakopoulos. Sandwich lunch from 12.30 pm. All welcome to attend. Further information: www.lcil.cam.ac.uk/press/events...

This week I gave a course at The Hague Academy of International Law on International Law and Domestic Courts: Quantum Uncertainty. Many thanks to the Curatorium and staff of the Academy, the wonderful students, and the lovely interpreters and technicians.

And, @djag2.bsky.social - you said we *were* friends and colleagues? I very much hope we still are, even if we live so far apart.

I’ve been a low-key fan of this pod since it started - I particularly enjoy the “what everyone gets wrong about…” sub-series. Deliciously irreverent and appropriately highbrow. But for this one I have to thank the co-hosts for the shout-out. Perhaps I need to write about 2803.

Thanks to the Codification Division for inviting me to teach on the UN Regional Course in International Law for Asia and the Pacific - I had a great time debating international law issues with enthusiastic colleagues from the region. Special thanks to Carla Hoe & to Judith Violago.

Picture of Antonios Tzanakopoulos delivering his remarks.

I spoke on Populism and international law at the Margalla Dialogue in Islamabad. Many thanks to all the participants and colleagues at the Islamabad Policy Research Institute, for the hospitality and spirited exchanges. Until next time!

Oxford Law academics Professor Antonios Tzanakopoulos and Dr Miles Jackson have acted as counsel for Malaysia and Namibia respectively in recent proceedings at the International Court of Justice in The Hague 🏛️

Read more about their contributions👇
www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/news...

Here is the paper on which the talk was based, with some obvious updates: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

I gave a talk on the UN and its sanctioning power at the International Symposium on the 80th anniversary of the United Nations in Shenzhen. Thanks to the wonderful colleagues at the Institute of International Law of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences for the kind invitation.

With some excellent colleagues we represented the Republic of Equatorial Guinea before the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea in the M/T Heroic Idun (No 2) case. A great team.

A wonderful - if unorthodox (pun intended) - start to the academic year: a seminar on reservations to treaties for the LLM of the University of Athens, on the margins of a long hearing at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea. Thanks to all for the enjoyable seminar.

With Johanna Lorenzo and Christian Walter, we shared our impressions at the concluding roundtable of the @esil-sedi.bsky.social 2025 Annual Conference in Berlin on Reconstructing Int’l Law. Chaired by Vasilka Sancin. Many thanks to Helmut Aust and Heike Krieger of @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social.

You can read the Issue Paper here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Our Issue Paper with Efthymios Papastavridis for UNODC on Surveillance and Enforcement of High Seas Marine Protected Areas has been published and will be presented at UNHQ in NYC on 27 Aug.

You can access it here:

But the executive summary is available now - following some further work at UNODC HQ in Vienna.

UNODC Expert Group Meeting: our issue paper with Efthymios Papastavridis on Surveillance and Enforcement in High Seas MPAs is still in draft as we incorporate comments from the experts.

A picture of graduate students in front of the library of All Souls College, Oxford

Thank you, IDS class of 2024-25. I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did - and sorry we got rained on just when y’all wanted to take a picture.

We’re now mid-way through Trinity Term! 🌞 Today, we had the fantastic opportunity to hear from Prof @atzanakopoulos.bsky.social on ‘International Law and Domestic Courts: Quantum Uncertainty’.

Read the pre-print version of the commentary on Art 50: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Read the pre-print version of the commentary on Art 21: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

I wrote commentaries on Articles 21 (self-defence) and 50 (obligations not affected by countermeasures) for the Commentary on the Articles of State Responsibility edited by Patrícia Galvão Teles and Pierre Bodeau-Livinec.

Registration and scholarship applications: www.hagueacademy.nl/programmes/t...