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Marko Milanovic

Professor of Public International Law, Faculty of Social Sciences

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Expertise Summary

Marko Milanovic is Professor of Public International Law at the University of Nottingham School of Law.

Marko obtained his first degree in law from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Law, his LL.M from the University of Michigan Law School, and his PhD in international law from the University of Cambridge; his PhD thesis on the extraterritorial application of human rights treaties was awarded the Yorke Prize by the Cambridge Faculty of Law.

Marko is co-editor of EJIL: Talk!, the blog of the European Journal of International Law and a member of the EJIL's Editorial Board. He served as Vice-President and member of the Executive Board of the European Society of International Law. He was Law Clerk to Judge Thomas Buergenthal of the International Court of Justice in 2006/2007. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Michigan Law School, Columbia Law School, and at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights. He is an Associate of the Belgrade Centre for Human Rights, and sits on the Executive Board of the Humanitarian Law Centre in Serbia. He is also a Professorial Research Fellow at Deakin Law School.

Marko has published in leading academic journals, including the European Journal of International Law and the American Journal of International Law; his work has been cited, inter alia, by the UK Supreme Court and by the International Law Commission. He was counsel or advisor in cases before the International Court of Justice, the European Court of Human Rights, and the Constitutional Court of Serbia. His book Extraterritorial Application of Human Rights Treaties: Law, Principles, and Policy, was published by Oxford University Press in 2011.

Publications available at SSRN at http://ssrn.com/author=655207.

Expertise includes general international law, especially issues of state responsibility and treaty interpretation; human rights law, particularly the question of extraterritorial application of human rights treaties; international criminal law and international humanitarian law.

Teaching Summary

At the School, Marko teaches public law tutorials for undergraduates, and the law of treaties and international human rights law seminars for the LL.Ms, as well as the Law of War and Peace module for… read more

Research Summary

Current research focuses on issues of evolutionary interpretation in international and constitutional law, and various legal aspects of intelligence sharing in multinational military operations.

Selected Publications

  • MILANOVIC, M and WOOD, MC, eds., 2015. The law and politics of the Kosovo Advisory Opinion Oxford : Oxford University Press.
  • MILANOVIC, M., 2015. Human Rights Treaties and Foreign Surveillance: Privacy in the Digital Age Harvard International Law Journal. 56, 81
  • MILANOVIC, M., 2014. End of Application of International Humanitarian Law International Review of the Red Cross. 96, 163
  • MILANOVIC, M., 2011. Extraterritorial application of human rights treaties: law, principles, and policy Oxford University Press.

Current PhD Students

Rossana Deplano.

Previous research students supervised to completion: Elena Abrusci, 2018; Richard Watkins, 2017; Stuart Wallace, 2014; Kieren McGuffin, 2013.

I welcome inquiries from potential PhD students - please get in touch with your proposal and a short CV.

Information about the School of Law PhD programme and how to apply can be found here: https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/law/study/postgraduate-research/index.aspx.

Information about scholarships can be found here: https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/law/study/postgraduate-research/funding.aspx

At the School, Marko teaches public law tutorials for undergraduates, and the law of treaties and international human rights law seminars for the LL.Ms, as well as the Law of War and Peace module for MA students.

  • MILANOVIC, M, 2019. Accounting for the Complexity of the Law Applicable to Modern Armed Conflicts. In: FORD, C and WILLIAMS, W, eds., Complex Battlespaces: The Law of Armed Conflict and the Dynamics of Modern Warfare Oxford University Press.
  • MILANOVIC, M, 2019. Courting Failure: When are International Criminal Courts Likely to Be Believed by Local Audiences?. In: HELLER, K, ed., The Oxford Handbook of International Criminal Law Oxford University Press. (In Press.)
  • MILANOVIC, M and PAPIC, T, 2018. The Applicability of the ECHR in Contested Territories International and Comparative Law Quarterly. 67, 779
  • MILANOVIC, M, 2018. Jurisdiction and Responsibility: Trends in the Jurisprudence of the Strasbourg Court. In: VAN AAKEN, A and MOTOC, I, eds., The ECHR and General International Law Oxford University Press.
  • MILANOVIC, M, 2017. Extraterritoriality and Human Rights: Prospects and Challenges. In: GAMMELTOFT-HANSEN, T and VEDSTED-HANSEN , J, eds., Human Rights and the Dark Side of Globalisation Routledge.
  • MILANOVIC, M., 2016. Extraterritorial Derogations from Human Rights Treaties in Armed Conflict. In: BHUTA, N., ed., The Frontiers of Human Rights: Extraterritoriality and its Challenges Oxford University Press. 55
  • MILANOVIC, M., 2016. The Lost Origins of Lex Specialis: Rethinking the Relationship between Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law. In: OHLIN, J.D., ed., Theoretical Boundaries of Armed Conflict and Human Rights Cambridge University Press. 78-117
  • MILANOVIC, M., 2016. The Impact of the ICTY on the Former Yugoslavia: An Anticipatory Post-Mortem American Journal of International Law. 110, 233
  • MILANOVIC, M and WOOD, MC, eds., 2015. The law and politics of the Kosovo Advisory Opinion Oxford : Oxford University Press.
  • MILANOVIC, M, 2015. Arguing the Kosovo Case. In: MARKO MILANOVIC and MICHAEL WOOD, eds., The Law and Politics of the ICJ’s Kosovo Advisory Opinion Oxford University Press. 21
  • MILANOVIC, M, 2015. The Applicability of the Conventions to ‘Transnational’ and ‘Mixed’ Conflicts’. In: A. CLAPHAM, P. GAETA AND M. SASSOLI, ed., The 1949 Geneva Conventions: A Commentary Oxford University Press.
  • MILANOVIC, M., 2015. Human Rights Treaties and Foreign Surveillance: Privacy in the Digital Age Harvard International Law Journal. 56, 81
  • MILANOVIC, M., 2014. The Spatial Dimension: Treaties and Territory. In: C. TAMS, A. TZANAKOPOULOS AND A. ZIMMERMANN, ed., Research Handbook on the Law of Treaties Elgar. 186
  • MILANOVIC, M., 2014. End of Application of International Humanitarian Law International Review of the Red Cross. 96, 163
  • MILANOVIC, M. and HADZI-VIDANOVIC, V., 2013. A Taxonomy of Armed Conflict. In: WHITE, N. and HENDERSON, C., eds., Research Handbook on International Conflict and Security Law Elgar. 256-314
  • MILANOVIC, M, 2013. Enforcement of human rights Oxford : Oxford University Press.
  • MILANOVIC, M., 2012. Aggression and Legality: Custom in Kampala Journal of International Criminal Justice. 10, 165
  • MILANOVIC, M, 2012. Al-Skeini and Al-Jedda in Strasbourg European Journal of International Law. 23, 121-139
  • MILANOVIC, M., 2012. On Realistic Utopias and Other Oxymorons: An Essay on Antonio Cassese’s Last Book European Journal of International Law. 23, 1033
  • MILANOVIC, M., 2011. Norm Conflicts, International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights Law. In: BEN-NAFTALI, O., ed., International Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law Oxford University Press. 95
  • MILANOVIC, M., 2011. Extraterritorial application of human rights treaties: law, principles, and policy Oxford University Press.
  • MILANOVIC, M., 2011. Is the Rome Statute binding on individuals? (And why we should care) Journal of International Criminal Justice. 9(1), 25-52
  • MILANOVIC, M., 2010. ‘Sejdic and Finci v. Bosnia and Herzegovina (International Decision) American Journal of International Law. 104, 636 (In Press.)
  • MILANOVIC, M., 2009. Extradition and Life Imprisonment Cambridge Law Journal. 69, 248
  • MILANOVIC, M. and PAPIC, T., 2009. As bad as it gets: The European Court of Human Rights’s Behrami and Saramati decision and general international law International and Comparative Law Quarterly. 58(2), 267-296
  • MILANOVIC, M., 2009. Norm conflict in international law: whither human rights? Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law. 20(1), 69-131
  • MILANOVIC, M., 2009. Territorial Application of the Convention and State Succession. In: GAETA, P., ed., The UN Genocide Convention: A Commentary Oxford University Press. 473
  • 2009. A Norm Conflict Perspective on the Relationship between International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights Law Journal of Conflict & Security Law. 14, 459
  • MILANOVIC, M., 2009. State Responsibility for Acts of Non-state Actors: A Comment on Griebel and Plücken Leiden Journal of International Law. 22(2), 307-324
  • MILANOVIC, M., 2009. The Human Rights Committee’s Views in Sayadi v. Belgium: A Missed Opportunity Goettingen Journal of International Law. 1, 519
  • MILANOVIC, M. and DIMITRIJEVIC, V., 2008. The Strange Story of the Bosnian Genocide Case Leiden Journal of International Law. 21, 65
  • MILANOVIC, M., 2008. From Compromise to Principle: Clarifying the Concept of State Jurisdiction in Human Rights Treaties Human Rights Law Review. 8, 411
  • MILANOVIC, M., 2007. Lessons for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law in the War on Terror: Comparing Hamdan and the Israeli Targeted Killings Case International Review of the Red Cross. 89(866), 373
  • MILANOVIC, M., 2007. An Odd Couple: Domestic Crimes and International Responsibility in the Special Tribunal for Lebanon Journal of International Criminal Justice. 5, 1139
  • MILANOVIC, M., 2007. State Responsibility for Genocide: A Follow-Up European Journal of International Law. 18, 669
  • MILANOVIC, M., 2006. State Responsibility for Genocide European Journal of International Law. 17, 553

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