The Faculty of Law is honoured and pleased to announce that Professor Mark Milanovic, University of Reading, has been appointed as Raoul Wallenberg Visiting Chair in Human Rights and Humanitarian Law from September 2025 until August 2027, and affiliated to the Faculty of Law as Conjoint Professor.
Professor Milanovic is an outstanding and leading international scholar in the area of human rights law, public international law and humanitarian law. His current research interests cover principles and rules in armed conflicts, state responsibility, accountability for grave crimes, and cyberlaw.
The Raoul Wallenberg Visiting Chair is part of a project, generously funded by the Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg Foundation during the period of 2021–2027, which aims to dynamically develop the success of the Visiting Chair, co-hosted by the Faculty of Law and the Raoul Wallenberg Institute (RWI).
The Raoul Wallenberg Visiting Chair – and the research environment, early career researchers and multitude of activities connected to it – seek in novel ways to explore, analyse, and secure the future of human rights. The future of human rights is addressed in three specific research areas: 1) the rise of authoritarianism and populism; 2) the challenges of technological change, digitalisation, and AI; and 3) state of emergency and the erosion of the rule of law.
Professor Milanovic is a prolific and productive researcher with an impressive record of publications - monographs, articles, and book chapters - in leading international journals and publishers. He has been a visiting professor at prestigious universities, including Michigan Law School, Columbia Law School, Deakin Law School, University of Bologna and Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights. He is currently the Special Adviser on Cyber-Enabled Crimes to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, co-editor of the ongoing Tallinn Manual 3.0 project on the application of international law to cyber operations, as well as an Academic Expert at Doughty Street Chambers. He has served as a high-level expert appointed by the UN High Commissioner on Human Rights to assist her in conducting a comprehensive examination of alleged human rights violations committed in Belarus since 1 May 2020. In 2022 he was awarded the Serge Lazareff Prize for excellence in legal services by the NATO Allied Command Operations Office of Legal Affairs. He has advised a taskforce supporting the Prosecutor General of Ukraine regarding accountability for crimes committed during the Ukrainian conflict. In 2024, he served as an academic expert of the Panel of Experts in International Law convened by the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in support of his investigation into the Situation in the State of Palestine for the purpose of advising him on arrest warrant applications against Hamas and Israeli leaders.
For more information about Professor Marko Milanovic, see the University of Reading website