About us


  • Co-founder and co-convenor

  • Dr Emily Jones is a NUAcT Fellow based in Newcastle Law School, Newcastle University (UK). Emily is a generalist public international lawyer whose interdisciplinary work combines theory and practice. Her work broadly examines modes of resistance and hope, drawing on feminist, queer, posthuman, decolonial and critical disability studies in that aim. Emily’s work spans several fields of international law, including: international environmental law; the law of the sea; international human rights law; science, technology and international law; international disarmament law; and outer space law, among others.

    Emily's monograph, Feminist Theory and International Law: Posthuman Perspectives, was published with Routledge's GlassHouse series in 2023. She is the co-author of The Law of War and Peace: A Gender Analysis, Volume One, (Bloomsbury, 2021) and has co-edited two volumes: International Law & Posthuman Theory (Routledge, 2024) and the More Posthuman Glossary (Bloomsbury, 2022)

    https://www.ncl.ac.uk/law/people/profile/emilyjones3.html


  • Co-founder and co-convenor

  • Dr Meagan Wong is a Lecturer in Law, Essex Law School, University of Essex and the Founding Director of the LLM in International Law postgraduate degree. Dr Wong is a generalist public international lawyer with several interests in specialist sub-fields of international law which are reflected in her research interests and practice. She has advised States on a broad set of issues of public international law.

    Dr Wong has published on canonical aspects of generalist public international law and on specialist sub-fields of international law including the law on the use of force, international criminal law, international humanitarian law, international human rights law, international environmental law, and the international law of the sea. She is the author of a forthcoming monograph with Cambridge University Press, entitled Responsibility of States and Individuals: Aggression and the International Criminal Court and also the co-author of a Cases & Materials in International Environmental Law book co-authored with Malgosia Fitzmaurice and Joseph Crampin (2022, Edward Elgar Publishing).

    https://www.essex.ac.uk/people/WONGS45601/Meagan-Wong

Photo credit: Emmanuel Giakoumakis

About the Lecture Series

The Public International Law Lecture Series is a lecture series featuring judges of international courts and tribunals, leading academics, and practitioners of international law from governmental service, international organizations, and private practice from across the globe.

The Public International Law Lecture Series (previously known as the Essex Public International Law Lecture Series) is founded, hosted and chaired by Dr Emily Jones (Newcastle University) and Dr Meagan Wong (Essex Law School, University of Essex). The series prides itself on building upon two important intellectual traditions of international law: formalism and international legal practice, and international legal theory including postcolonial and feminist perspectives.

We welcome all students, academics, practitioners and legal advisors to join us.