Emanuela-Chiara Gillard

Emanuela-Chiara Gillard is a Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict and an Associate Fellow in Chatham House’s International Law Programme. From 2007 to 2012 she was Chief of the Protection of Civilians Section in the Policy Development and Studies Branch of the United Nations Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. For seven years prior to joining OCHA, Emanuela was a thematic legal adviser at the International Committee of the Red Cross. Before joining the ICRC in 2000, Emanuela was a legal adviser at the United Nations Compensation Commission. From 1995 to 1997 she was a research fellow at the Lauterpacht Research Centre for International Law at the University of Cambridge. Emanuela holds a B.A. in Law and an LL.M. from the University of Cambridge. She is a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales.

Book symposium – Reflections on the Responsibility of Armed Groups

By Emanuela-Chiara Gillard / October 12, 2020

The present blog post is based on comments made at the launch of Laura Inigo Alvarez’s book, Towards a Regime of Responsibility of Armed Groups in International Law, organized by ALMA. Dr Alvarez’s book is a timely and valuable contribution to the analytical framework for considering the responsibility of organised armed groups (OAGs). All too …

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