Louise Doswald-Beck is Professor of International Law at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies and was the Director of the University Centre for International Humanitarian Law (the « CUDIH », predecessor to the Academy) from 2003 to 2007. Of British origin, she began her academic career in 1975 after being called to the Bar in London.

She was a lecturer in international law at Exeter University and then at London University where she taught, inter alia, LL.M. courses on the law of armed conflict and the use of force and the international protection of human rights. Between 1987 and 2001, she was a Legal Adviser at the International Committee of the Red Cross and became Head of the Legal Division in 1998. Between 2001 and 2003, she was Secretary-General of the International Commission of Jurists.

Human Rights, Social Justice,