Alberto Costi

Alberto Costi's main teaching and research interests are in public international law, with specializations in the law of armed conflict, international criminal law, international human rights law, the law of international organisations and international environmental law, and in comparative law and EU law. In all those areas, he has published extensively, presented papers at numerous international conferences, commented in the media and appeared before parliamentary committees. He has also advised a number of governments and other bodies on international law and EU law issues. He currently sits on the editorial or advisory board of Environmental Policy and Governance, the Comparative Law Journal of the Pacific, the Revue Quebecoise de Droit International, the New Zealand Journal of Public and International Law, the Victoria University of Wellington Law Review and the New Zealand Yearbook of International Law. He is a member of the New Zealand International Humanitarian Law Committee and serves as the Secretary-General of the International Law Association New Zealand Branch and the Vice-President of the New Zealand Association for Comparative Law.

Former professional commitments include clerkship at the Supreme Court of Canada and academic positions at Keele University in England and at the Central European University in Budapest. In addition, he has acted as Visiting Professor in Montenegro and Kirgyzstan, at the Faculty of Law of the University of Western Ontario in Canada and at the College of Law of the University of Iowa. He was a Guest Professor for the Second International Humanitarian Law Course for University Lecturers in China (organised by the International Committee of the Red Cross Delegation to China and the Chinese Foreign Affairs University) in Beijing in 2012. He was a Visiting Fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford in 1998-1999 and a member of the External Advisory Board, National Centre for Research on Europe (University of Canterbury, New Zealand) from 2004 to 2006.