Vaughan Lowe is the Chichele Professor of Public International Law and a Fellow of All Souls College, University of Oxford. He was formerly Reader in International Law and a Fellow of Corpus Christi College in the University of Cambridge and has taught at the Universities of Cardiff and Manchester and in the USA. He practices as a barrister from Essex Court Chambers, London. He has advised governments and corporations on matters of international law, and is the author of many books and articles on the subject, of which the most recent is The Settlement of International Disputes (OUP, 1999; with John Collier).