Professor Nicholas Tsagourias

School of Law

Professor of International Law

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Professor Nicholas Tsagourias
School of Law
Bartolomé House
Winter Street
Sheffield
S3 7ND
Profile

I am Professor of International Law at the University of Sheffield, joining the University in 2012 from the University of Glasgow where I was Professor of International Law and Security. I completed my law studies at the University of Thessaloniki in Greece, obtaining an LL.M. from the University of Bristol and my Ph.D from the University of Nottingham. My teaching and research interests are in the fields of international law and the use of force, international humanitarian law, international criminal law, collective security law, peacekeeping, United Nations Law, international and European constitutional theory and law and cybersecurity. I am widely published in these fields.

I am Director of the Sheffield Centre for International and European Law. I sit on the editorial board for the Journal of Conflict and Security Law and for the Journal on the Use of Force and International Law. I am convenor of the European Society of International Law Interest Group on Peace and Security. I am member of the AHRC Peer Review College. I hold a visiting post at the University of Umea, Sweden and have taught at many Universities in Europe and the USA.

Qualifications
  • PhD, University of Nottingham
  • LLM, University of Bristol
  • LLB (Hons), University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Research interests
  • International Law and the use of Force
  • International Humanitarian Law
  • International Criminal Law
  • Collective Security Law
  • Cybersecurity

Member of the Sheffield Centre for International and European Law.

Publications

Books

Edited books

  • (Ed.) (2023) The Changing Character of International Dispute Settlement Challenges and Prospects.. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Gazzini T & Tsagourias N (Ed.) (2012) The Use of Force in International Law. Ashgate. RIS download Bibtex download

Journal articles

Chapters

  • Buchan R, Franchini D & Tsagourias N (2023) Introduction, The Changing Character of International Dispute Settlement (pp. 1-12). Cambridge University Press RIS download Bibtex download
  • Tsagourias N & Middleton F (2023) Fact-Finding and Cyber Attribution, The Changing Character of International Dispute Settlement (pp. 439-466). Cambridge University Press RIS download Bibtex download
  • Tsagourias N & Biggio G (2022) The regulation of cyber weapons, Research Handbook on International Arms Control Law (pp. 441-455). RIS download Bibtex download
  • (2021) Introduction, Research Methods in International Law Edward Elgar Publishing RIS download Bibtex download
  • Tsagourias N (2021) Comparative international constitutional law and its methodology In Deplano R & Tsagourias N (Ed.), Research Methods in International Law: A Handbook (pp. 283-301). Edward Elgar View this article in WRRO RIS download Bibtex download
  • Buchan R & Tsagourias N (2021) Introduction, Regulating the Use of Force in International Law Edward Elgar Publishing RIS download Bibtex download
  • Buchan R & Tsagourias N (2021) International law on the use of force: quo vadis?, Regulating the Use of Force in International Law Edward Elgar Publishing RIS download Bibtex download
  • Tsagourias N (2021) Responsibility of non-state rulers in areas of limited statehood In Hamid L & Wouters J (Ed.), Rule of Law and Areas of Limited Statehood: Domestic and International Dimensions (pp. 162-182). Edward Elgar Publishing View this article in WRRO RIS download Bibtex download
  • (2021) Other forms of the use of force: humanitarian intervention, armed reprisals and intervention by invitation, Regulating the Use of Force in International Law (pp. 79-113). Edward Elgar Publishing RIS download Bibtex download
  • (2021) Peacekeeping operations, Regulating the Use of Force in International Law (pp. 191-211). Edward Elgar Publishing RIS download Bibtex download
  • Tsagourias N (2021) Responsibility of non-state rulers in areas of limited statehood, Rule of Law and Areas of Limited Statehood: Domestic and International Dimensions (pp. 162-182). RIS download Bibtex download
  • (2021) The United Nations collective security system and the use of force, Regulating the Use of Force in International Law (pp. 132-151). Edward Elgar Publishing RIS download Bibtex download
  • (2021) The right of individual and collective self-defence, Regulating the Use of Force in International Law (pp. 41-78). Edward Elgar Publishing RIS download Bibtex download
  • (2021) The prohibition on the threat or use of force, Regulating the Use of Force in International Law (pp. 16-40). Edward Elgar Publishing RIS download Bibtex download
  • Tsagourias N (2021) The legal status of cyberspace: sovereignty redux?, Research Handbook on International Law and Cyberspace (pp. 9-31). Edward Elgar Publishing RIS download Bibtex download
  • (2021) Regional organisations, collective security and the use of force, Regulating the Use of Force in International Law (pp. 152-190). Edward Elgar Publishing RIS download Bibtex download
  • (2021) Cyber attacks, use of force and self-defence, Regulating the Use of Force in International Law (pp. 114-131). Edward Elgar Publishing RIS download Bibtex download
  • (2021) Historical development of the jus ad bellum, Regulating the Use of Force in International Law (pp. 1-15). Edward Elgar Publishing RIS download Bibtex download
  • Deplano R & Tsagourias N (2021) Introduction, Research Methods in International Law: A Handbook (pp. 1-7). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Tsagourias N (2018) Recommendation 13 (j). Nicholas Tsagourias, Civil Society and Disarmament (pp. 241-264). UN RIS download Bibtex download
  • Tsagourias N (2017) Risk and the Use of Force In Ambrus M, Rayfuse R & Werner W (Ed.), Risk and the Regulation of Uncertainty in International Law OUP Oxford RIS download Bibtex download
  • Tsagourias N (2016) Contributions of British international lawyers to the law on the use of force, British Influences on International Law, 1915-2015 (pp. 300-316). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Tsagourias N (2016) R2P: An Inquiry into its Transformative Potential, Beyond Responsibility to Protect (pp. 435-448). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Tsagourias N (2015) Self-defence, Protection of Humanitarian Values and the Doctrine of Impartiality and Neutrality in Enforcement Mandates In Weller M (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the Use of Force in International Law Oxford University Press RIS download Bibtex download
  • Tsagourias N (2015) Self-defence, protection of humanitarian values, and the doctrine of impartiality and the neutrality in enforcement mandates In Weller M (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the Use of Force in International Law (pp. 398-415). OUP Oxford RIS download Bibtex download
  • Tsagourias N (2014) The Tallinn Manual on the International Law Applicable to Cyber Warfare: A Commentary on Chapter II—The Use of Force In Gill TD, Heinsch R, Geiß R, McCormack T, Paulussen C & Dorsey J (Ed.), Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law (pp. 19-43). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Tsagourias N (2013) Scotland: Independence and Membership of the UN and EU In Rec IFI (Ed.), German Yearbook of International Law (pp. 509-536). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Tsagourias N (2013) Whither the Veto: The Responsibility to Protect and the Security Council Veto In Sancin V & Dine MK (Ed.), Responsibility to Protect in Theory and Practice (pp. 157-174). Zalozba RIS download Bibtex download
  • Tsagourias N (2013) The Prohibition of Threats of Force In White ND & Henderson C (Ed.), Research Handbook on International Conflict and Security Law (pp. 67-88). Edward Elgar Publishing RIS download Bibtex download
  • Tsagourias N & White ND (2013) The morphology of collective security, COLLECTIVE SECURITY: THEORY, LAW AND PRACTICE (pp. 20-38). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Tsagourias N & White ND (2013) The management of normative conflicts, COLLECTIVE SECURITY: THEORY, LAW AND PRACTICE (pp. 319-341). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Tsagourias N & White ND (2013) Law as internal facilitator, regulator or constraint, COLLECTIVE SECURITY: THEORY, LAW AND PRACTICE (pp. 281-296). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Tsagourias N & White ND (2013) Accountability in Collective Security, COLLECTIVE SECURITY: THEORY, LAW AND PRACTICE (pp. 345-364). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Tsagourias N & White ND (2013) Law as external facilitator, regulator or constraint, COLLECTIVE SECURITY: THEORY, LAW AND PRACTICE (pp. 297-318). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Tsagourias N & White ND (2013) International responsibility and liability, COLLECTIVE SECURITY: THEORY, LAW AND PRACTICE (pp. 365-384). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Tsagourias N & White ND (2013) Collective Security: a historical journey, COLLECTIVE SECURITY: THEORY, LAW AND PRACTICE (pp. 3-19). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Tsagourias N & White ND (2013) Individual criminal responsibility, COLLECTIVE SECURITY: THEORY, LAW AND PRACTICE (pp. 385-410). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Tsagourias N & White ND (2013) COLLECTIVE SECURITY Theory, Law and Practice PREFACE, COLLECTIVE SECURITY: THEORY, LAW AND PRACTICE (pp. XI-+). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Tsagourias N & White ND (2013) COLLECTIVE SECURITY Theory, Law and Practice Conclusion, COLLECTIVE SECURITY: THEORY, LAW AND PRACTICE (pp. 411-421). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Tsagourias N (2012) The Application of the Principle of Subsidiarity to International Legislation with Reference to Security Council Counterterrorism Resolutions In Lindholm J & Derlén M (Ed.), Festskrift till Pär Hallström: volume in honor of Pär Hallström (pp. 341-352). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Tsagourias N (2011) Chapter 9 The Responsibility of International Organisations for Military Missions, International Military Missions and International Law (pp. 245-265). Brill | Nijhoff RIS download Bibtex download
  • Tsagourias N (2011) The Responsibility of International Organisations for Military Missions In Odello M & Piotrowicz R (Ed.), International Military Missions and International Law (pp. 245-266). Martinus Nijhoff RIS download Bibtex download
  • Tsagourias N (2011) Non-state actors and the use of force In D'Aspremont J (Ed.), Participants in the International Legal System (pp. 326-341). Routledge RIS download Bibtex download
  • Tsagourias N (2011) Conceptualizing the Autonomy of the European Union In Collins R & White ND (Ed.), International Organizations and the Idea of Autonomy (pp. 339-353). Routledge RIS download Bibtex download
  • Tsagourias N (2010) Command Responsibility and the Princile of Individual Criminal Responsibility: A Critical Analysis of International Jurisprudence In Eboe-Osuji C (Ed.), Protecting Humanity (pp. 817-838). Martinus Nijhoff RIS download Bibtex download
  • Tsagourias N (2010) Cosmopolitan Legitimacy and UN Collective Security In Pierik R & Werner W (Ed.), Cosmopolitanism in Context (pp. 129-154). Cambridge University Press RIS download Bibtex download
  • Tsagourias N (2007) The Constitutional Role of General Principles of Law in International and European Jurisprudence In Tsagourias N (Ed.), Transnational Constitutionalism (pp. 71-106). Cambridge University Press RIS download Bibtex download
  • Tsagourias N (2007) Constitutionalism: a theoretical roadmap In Tsagourias N (Ed.), Transnational Constitutionalism (pp. 1-13). Cambridge University Press RIS download Bibtex download
  • Tsagourias N (2007) EU Peacekeeping Operations: Legal and Theoretical Issues In Trybus M & White N (Ed.), European Security Law (pp. 102-133). Oxford University Press RIS download Bibtex download
  • Tsagourias N (2006) International Community, Recognition of States and Political Cloning In Warbrick C & Tierney S (Ed.), Towards an International Legal Community: The Sovereignty of States and the Sovereignty of International Law (pp. 211-240). British Inst of International & Comparative RIS download Bibtex download
  • Tsagourias N (2004) Irrational Governance: The Use of Force In Heere WP (Ed.), From Government to Governance: The Growing Impact of Non-State Actors on the International and European Legal System (pp. 472-478). Cambridge University Press RIS download Bibtex download
  • Tsagourias N (2004) The Will of the International Community as a Normative Source of International Law, Governance and International Legal Theory (pp. 97-121). Springer Netherlands RIS download Bibtex download
  • Tsagourias N (2004) The Shifting Laws on the Use of Force and the Trivialization of the UN Collective Security System: The Need to Reconstitute It, Netherlands Yearbook of International Law (pp. 55-87). T.M.C. Asser Press RIS download Bibtex download
  • Tsagourias N (2004) The will of the international community as a normative source of international Law In Dekker IF & Werner WG (Ed.), Governance and International Legal Theory (pp. 99-124). Springer RIS download Bibtex download
  • Tsagourias N (2000) Humanism and the Mandates System: Its Modern Revival In Lammers (Ed.), Hague Yearbook of International Law (pp. 97-110). Martinus Nijhoff Publishers RIS download Bibtex download
  • Tsagourias N & Biggio G () The Regulation of Cyber Weapons In Myjer EPJ (Ed.), Research Handbook on International Arms Control Law (pp. 440-415). RIS download Bibtex download
  • () CYBER THREATS AND INTERNATIONAL LAW (pp. 145-146). Edward Elgar Publishing RIS download Bibtex download
  • Tsagourias N () The legal status of cyberspace (pp. 13-29). Edward Elgar Publishing RIS download Bibtex download
  • () Table of legislation (pp. xx-xxviii). Edward Elgar Publishing RIS download Bibtex download
  • () Table of cases (pp. xiv-xix). Edward Elgar Publishing RIS download Bibtex download
  • () REGIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL APPROACHES TO CYBER SECURITY (pp. 401-402). Edward Elgar Publishing RIS download Bibtex download
  • Tsagourias N () Military Intervention in International Law Oxford University Press RIS download Bibtex download
  • d'Aspremont J () Participants in the International Legal System Routledge RIS download Bibtex download

Book reviews

Reports

  • Tsagourias N (2014) Violence Against Journalists And Crimes Against Humanity RIS download Bibtex download

Preprints

Research group

Areas of research supervision

  • International law and the use of force
  • International humanitarian law
  • International criminal law
  • Collective security law
  • Peacekeeping
  • International and European constitutionalism
  • Cybersecurity
Grants
Title/Description: Awarding Body: People Involved: Dates: Amount:
Collective Security: law, theory and practice British Academy Professor Nicholas Tsagourias and Professor Nigel White (Nottingham) 2010 - 2012 £7,450
Teaching interests

My main objective is to guide students and facilitate them in developing their own intellectual potential. This is achieved through enquiry-based teaching and learning.

Teaching activities

The modules I teach are:

Postgraduate/MA

  • Principles of International Law
  • International Criminal Law
  • International Humanitarian Law
  • International Security Institutions and Law
  • Theoretial Foundattions of International Organisations
Professional activities and memberships
  • Editorial Board: Journal of Conflict and Security Law and Journam on the Use of Force and International Law
  • Member of the Use of Force Committee of the International Law Association
  • Member of the Institute of International Humanitarian Law (San Remo, Italy)
  • Member of the American Society of International Law
  • Member of the European Society of International Law
  • Member of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law
  • AHRC Peer Review College

Recent invited papers and keynote lectures

  • Gouvernance et régulation de la société numérique : quel rôle pour chacun ? UNESCO
  • Self-Defence and Non-State Actors. Annual Meeting, European Society of International Law, Oslo
    State Responsibility for Cyber Operations: International Law Issues, BIICL
  • The jus ad bellum aspects of cyberwar, Defence Academy of the United Kingdom