It’s our great pleasure today to welcome Charlotte Peevers as an IntLawGrrls contributor.  Charlotte is a lecturer in the Faculty of Law at the University of Technology Sydney in Australia, where she teaches courses in public international law, international criminal law and international human rights. Her research interests focus on justifications for the use of force, the contested histories of international law, and the role of the media in reporting international law and global politics. 

Charlotte holds an MA(Hons) from the University of Edinburgh in History, an MSc with distinction from University of Glasgow (human rights and international politics), and a doctorate in law from the London School of Economics. She was the Judge Higgins Scholar (2008-2010) and LSE Fellow (2008-10) during doctoral studies. She was a Queen Mother Scholar at Middle Temple and is a practising barrister (England & Wales, 2009).

Charlotte’s introductory post today discusses her recently published her monograph, The Politics of Justification: The Suez Crisis, the Iraq War and International Law (Oxford University Press, 2013). Heartfelt welcome!