ROGER MICHAEL O'KEEFE

ROGER MICHAEL O'KEEFE

Courses a.y. 2024/2025

Biographical note

I am Full Professor of International Law and the chair of the international law group at Bocconi, where I arrived in 2018. I am also an Honorary Professor at University College London (UCL), where from 2014 to 2018 I was Professor of Public International Law. Previously I taught for fifteen years at the University of Cambridge (1999–2014), where I was a Senior Lecturer in Law, the Deputy Director of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, and a Fellow of Magdalene College. I am joint General Editor of the Oxford University Press series Oxford Monographs in International Law.


Research interests

I am a generalist public international lawyer with a variety of specialist interests. I have published widely on canonical topics of public international law, such as the sources of international law, the law of treaties, the relationship between international and domestic law, statehood and admission to the United Nations, title to territory, jurisdiction and immunities, and state responsibility, as well on topics in the subfields of international criminal law, international humanitarian law, international human rights law, and international cultural heritage law.


Selected Publications

O'Keefe, Roger
The protection of cultural property in armed conflict
AMICUS CURIAE, 2007

O'Keefe, Roger
Universal jurisdiction
Encyclopedia of globalization, 2007

O'Keefe, Roger
State immunity and human rights: heads and walls, hearts and minds
VANDERBILT JOURNAL OF TRANSNATIONAL LAW, 2011

O'Keefe, Roger
Curriculum vitae: a prequel
CURRENT LEGAL PROBLEMS, 2016

O'Keefe, Roger
Protection of cultural property
The Oxford handbook of international law in armed conflict, 2014

O'Keefe, Roger
Domestic courts as agents of development of the international law of jurisdiction
LEIDEN JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW, 2013

O'Keefe, Roger
Legal title versus effectivités: prescription and the promise and problems of private law analogies
INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY LAW REVIEW, 2011

O'Keefe, Roger; Tams, Christian J.; Tzanakopoulos, Antonios
The United Nations convention on jurisdictional immunities of states and their property : a commentary
2013

O'Keefe, Roger
Cultural life, right to participate in, international protection
Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law, 2012

O'Keefe, Roger
International criminal law
2015

O'Keefe, Roger
World cultural heritage: obligations to the international community as a whole?
THE INTERNATIONAL AND COMPARATIVE LAW QUARTERLY, 2004

O'Keefe, Roger
Palm-fringed benefits: island dependencies in the new law of the sea
THE INTERNATIONAL AND COMPARATIVE LAW QUARTERLY, 1996