Faculty - The Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights

Marco Roscini

Swiss IHL Chair and Professor of International Law at the University of Westminster

Areas of expertise

Armed Conflicts / International Humanitarian Law / Nuclear Weapons / Use of Force / Disarmament / Cyber warfare / Non-intervention / History of international law

Marco Roscini is our Swiss IHL Chair and Professor of International Law at the University of Westminster, London. He is also a Visiting Professor at the University of Trento, Italy.

Professor Roscini's current research areas include the international law of armed conflict, the use of force in international law, international cyber security law, nuclear non-proliferation law, and the history of international law.

Professor Roscini has published widely in the field of international security law. He is the author of three monographs: Le zone denuclearizzate (Giappichelli 2003), Cyber Operations and the Use of Force in International Law (OUP 2014), and International Law and the Principle of Non-intervention: History, Theory, and Interactions with Other Principles (OUP 2024). He is also the co-editor of Non-proliferation Law as a Special Regime (CUP 2012). His scholarship has appeared or is forthcoming in important peer-reviewed journals as well as in several edited books. His publications have been widely cited in legal literature and judicial decisions.

He has a PhD from Sapienza University of Rome.

The Digitalization of Armed Conflict

This project will explore humanitarian consequences and protection needs caused by the digitalization of armed conflicts and the extent to which these needs are addressed by international law, especially international humanitarian law.