Alexander Orakhelashvili (LLM Leiden, PhD Cantab.) is a Junior Research Fellow at Jesus College, Oxford. He has previously taught international law in the Universities of London and Cambridge. His research includes all areas of international law. He has previously published Peremptory Norms in International Law (OUP, Oxford Monographs in International Law, 2006), and the wide range of articles in the leading international law journals and yearbooks.