Rate My Professor Daley Birkett

Dr Daley Birkett served as Senior Lecturer at Macquarie Law School, Macquarie University. He earned an LLB with honours from Durham University, an LLM cum laude in Public International Law from Leiden University—for which his thesis on the legality of Kenya’s 2011 invasion of Somalia received the Leiden Journal of International Law Thesis Prize—and a PhD from the University of Amsterdam examining asset freezing at the International Criminal Court and United Nations Security Council. Earlier in his career, he held a position at Northumbria Law School as Director of Mooting and worked as a Legal Consultant to the United Nations Assistance to the Khmer Rouge Trials in Phnom Penh, advising the international judges of the Supreme Court Chamber of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia on international criminal law, international humanitarian law, and international human rights law.

Dr Birkett’s research focuses on public international law, including the law and practice of international criminal tribunals such as the International Criminal Court and the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, United Nations Security Council sanctions regimes, and the jus ad bellum. Notable publications include his monograph Asset Freezing at the International Criminal Court and the United Nations Security Council: A Legal Protection Perspective (Eleven International Publishing, 2021), the co-edited volume The Codification of Criminal Law (with Michael Bohlander), ‘Recovering Assets at an International Anti-Corruption Court: Cautionary Tales from Rome, The Hague, and the Field’ (Transnational Criminal Law Review, 2023), ‘Challenging UN Security Council- and International Criminal Court-Requested Asset Freezes in Domestic Courts: Views from the United Kingdom and Italy’ (with Dini Sejko; Israel Law Review, 2022), and ‘Managing Frozen Assets at the International Criminal Court: The Fallout of the Bemba Acquittal’ (Journal of International Criminal Justice, 2020; shared Journal of International Criminal Justice Prize with Priya Urs). Additional honours include the SIEL/PEPA Edward Elgar Prize (2018, with Dini Sejko). At Macquarie, he coached the Nuremberg Moot Court team to second place worldwide in 2023 among over 120 universities, with a team member awarded Best Speaker. He has served on the Governing Board of the Foundation for the Development of International Law in Asia, the committee of the Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law International Peace and Security Interest Group, and the International Law Association Study Group on Asian State Practice of Domestic Implementation of International Law. He is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.