���Ǻ��� Cambridge: Jamie Trinidad

Position Governing Body Fellow
School Humanities and Social Sciences Faculty of Law
Email jt404@cam.ac.uk
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After completing his PhD at ��Ǻ��, Jamie was elected a Fellow of the College in 2013. He is currently the Director of Studies for the LLM students.

Jamie's research and teaching covers most areas of public international law. He has a particular interest in questions surrounding decolonization, territory, self-determination, and the law and practice of international courts and tribunals. In addition to his academic work, he is a practising lawyer. He qualified at the Bar of England and Wales in 2001 (as a member of Lincoln's Inn), and the Bar of Gibraltar in 2005 (appointed King's Counsel in 2023). He is a Senior Counsel at Albertson (14 Old Square, Lincoln's Inn), and a consultant at Isolas LLP, Gibraltar's oldest law firm.

Selected publications

Monographs:

• The Western Sahara Question and International Law: Recognition Practice and Self-Determination (Routledge 2024) (with S Allen).
• Self-Determination in Disputed Colonial Territories (Cambridge University Press 2018).

Edited volumes:

• The International Court of Justice and Decolonisation: New Directions from the Chagos Advisory Opinion (Cambridge University Press 2021) (with T Burri).
• The Future of International Courts: Regional, Institutional and Procedural Challenges (Routledge 2019) (With A Kent and N Skoutaris).

Peer-reviewed articles and book chapters:

• ‘Questions of public health before investment tribunals: can amici curiae play a useful role?’, in S Faccio, M Pertile and A Antonino (eds) International Investment Law and the Pandemic (Brill 2023) (with A Kent).
• ‘Better Late Than Never? The Environmental Impact Assessment and its Timing and Function’ (with TD Grant and A Kent), 39:3 Wisconsin International Law Journal (2022) 391-429.
• ‘Self-determination and contested peoplehood in Gibraltar: separating the law from the rhetoric’, 110:3 Round Table: Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs (2021) 347-356.
• ‘The International Court of Justice and Decolonisation: New Directions from the Chagos Advisory Opinion: Introduction’ (with T Burri), in The International Court of Justice and Decolonisation: New Directions from the Chagos Advisory Opinion (Cambridge University Press 2021) 1-8.
• ‘Amicus Curiae Interventions in International Proceedings: Forever Friends?’ (with A Kent), in The Future of International Courts: Regional, Institutional and Procedural Challenges (Routledge 2019) 235-249.
• ‘What Does the Future Hold for International Courts?’ (with A Kent and N Skoutaris), in The Future of International Courts: Regional, Institutional and Procedural Challenges (Routledge 2019) 1-7.
• ‘Self-determination and territorial integrity in the Chagos advisory proceedings: potential broader ramifications’ 4 Questions of International Law (2018).
• ‘The Disputed Waters Around Gibraltar’ 86 British Yearbook of International Law (2017) 101-154.
• ‘The Management of Amicus Participation Before International Criminal Tribunals’ 17:4 International Criminal Law Review (2017) 728-747 (with A Kent).
• ‘International Law Scholars as Amici Curiae’ 29:4 Leiden Journal of International Law (2017) 1081-1101 (with A Kent).
• ‘Decolonization: French India’, Max Planck Encyclopaedia of Public International Law (2017).
• ‘“Culturomics” and International Law Research’, Select Proceedings of the European Society of International Law (Hart 2016) 261-273.
• ‘An Evaluation of Morocco’s Claims to Spain’s Remaining Territories in Africa’ 61:4 International and Comparative Law Quarterly (2012) 961-975.

Book reviews

• Fraudulent Evidence in International Courts and Tribunals by MW Reisman and C Skinner, (Cambridge University Press 2014), in 86 British Yearbook of International Law (2017) 236-238.
• The Life of Hersch Lauterpacht by E Lauterpacht, (Cambridge University Press 2011), in 24:4 Cambridge Review of International Affairs (2011) 702-3.
• Sovereignty and the Stateless Nation by K Azopardi, (Hart 2008), 70:1 Cambridge Law Journal (2011) 272-274.

Case notes

• Dispute Concerning Delimitation of the Maritime Boundary Between Mauritius and Maldives in the Indian Ocean, Preliminary Objections, 60:6 ASIL International Legal Materials [2021] 969 (with T Burri).
• Decisions of British courts in 2016 involving questions of public international law 87 British Yearbook of International Law (2017) 3-39 (with A Sanger).

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