Tutors

Dr Naomi Hart, Essex Chambers, has a diverse practice in international, commercial, public and human rights law. She has acted in six cases before the International Court of Justice as well as in proceedings before the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, the European Court of Human Rights, and the Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization. She is also routinely involved in cases before English and foreign domestic courts which involve questions of public international law. Many of her cases have involved questions of sovereignty over land and insular territory, as well as questions concerning maritime entitlements and delimitation. In addition, she has advised and acted for governments, international organisations, non-governmental organisations and private parties on matters relating to self-determination, occupation of territory, war crimes, genocide, privileges and immunities, climate change, international administrative law, sanctions, international trade law, the act of State doctrine, and inter-State espionage. She also has a wide human rights practice before English, international and foreign domestic courts, much of which is pro bono.

Dr Ben Juratowitch KC, Essex Court Chambers has been counsel in a broad range of cases before the International Court of Justice, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, the European Court of Human Rights, the Caribbean Court of Justice and international arbitral tribunals. He has extensive experience advising on and serving as counsel in cases involving disputed territory, delimitation of boundaries on land and at sea, sovereignty over islands, the law of the sea, and arrangements to share infrastructure or natural resources that straddle boundaries or are in disputed areas. He teaches an annual course of seminars on international dispute settlement at the University of Paris Descartes and has been a visiting fellow in the Faculty of Law at the London School of Economics.

Dr Ben Juratowitch KC, Essex Court Chambers has been counsel in a broad range of cases before the International Court of Justice, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, the European Court of Human Rights, the Caribbean Court of Justice and international arbitral tribunals. He has extensive experience advising on and serving as counsel in cases involving disputed territory, delimitation of boundaries on land and at sea, sovereignty over islands, the law of the sea, and arrangements to share infrastructure or natural resources that straddle boundaries or are in disputed areas. He teaches an annual course of seminars on international dispute settlement at the University of Paris Descartes and has been a visiting fellow in the Faculty of Law at the London School of Economics.