The editorial team of the Review is pleased to announce that Professor Emiliano Buis and Professor Emanuela-Chiara Gillard have joined the journal's Editorial Board.
Emiliano Buis is an associate professor of international law, international humanitarian law (IHL) and the law of disarmament, non-proliferation and weapons control at the University of Buenos Aires Law School, as well as the coordinator of its LLM programme in international relations. He is professor of public international law at the Central University of the Province in Azul, where he is also co-director of the Center for Human Rights. An expert in the historical aspects of the law of armed conflict (especially in ancient times), Emiliano is a permanent researcher in law and philology at the National Council for Science and Technology in Argentina and the director of the seminar on theory and history of international law at the Ambrosio Gioja Research Institute. He is also the academic director of the newly created Observatory of International Humanitarian Law at the University of Buenos Aires. He holds a PhD from the University of Buenos Aires, a master's degree in history and social and human sciences from the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, a postgraduate diploma in national defence and two majors in law and classics from the University of Buenos Aires.
Having served from 2007 to 2011 as the legal adviser for the Direction for International Security and Nuclear Affairs at the Argentinean Ministry of Foreign Relations, Emiliano is currently the academic secretary of the Revista Jurídica de Buenos Aires. His latest book, Taming Ares: War, Interstate Law, and Humanitarian Discourse in Classical Greece, discusses international law, the normative discourse and the legal restrictions in the wars of ancient Greece.
Emanuela-Chiara Gillard is a senior fellow at the Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict at the University of Oxford. She is also a research fellow in the Individualisation of War Project at the European University Institute, and an associate fellow at the International Law Programme at Chatham House. From 2007 to 2012, she was chief of the protection of civilians section in the policy branch of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, and for seven years prior to that she was a legal adviser at the International Committee of the Red Cross. She holds a BA in law and an LLM from the University of Cambridge.
Recently, Emanuela has co-authored the Oxford Guidance on the Law Regulating Humanitarian Relief Operations in Situations of Armed Conflict with Professor Dapo Akande, and has been working on two Chatham House projects, one on the interplay between sanctions, counterterrorism measures and humanitarian action, and the other on the incidental side of IHL proportionality assessments.
