Ralph Wilde is this year´s Peace Fellow
In his field of international law, the Åland Islands are well known for their special status as an autonomous, demilitarized and neutralized zone. This was and is of great interest for Ralph Wilde as a scholar of international dispute settlement through special, unorthodox forms of sovereignty/territorial status and territorial administration/self-determination. Dr. Ralph Wilde seems to be busy and work with a high pace. He is not only a member of the Faculty of Laws at University College London, University of London, where he publishes, teaches and conducts external consultancy and public engagement on international law. In his previous work he has also focused on the concept of trusteeship over people in international law, addressing colonialism, belligerent occupation and international territorial administration. His book on that topic, International Territorial Administration: How Trusteeship and the Civilizing Mission Never Went Away (OUP) was awarded the Certificate of Merit (book prize) of the American Society of International Law. His current research project, ‘human rights beyond borders’, on the extraterritorial application of international human rights law, supported by an ERC Research Frontier Award, has led to various publications and will involve the production of three monographs for CUP. He also works on international law issues […]