Professor Nehal Bhuta joins Edinburgh Law School

Professor Nehal bhuta

Professor Bhuta joins Edinburgh as chair of international law from the European University Institute in Florence, where he was professor of public international law.

Professor Bhuta, whose research concerns topics from the regulation of autonomous weapons systems to state-making and state-building in international law, is interested in the ways that we increasingly try to turn local political order into a problem for experts to manage – and whether there might be better approaches to supporting political problem solving through international institutions.

He said: “Building states and political orders has become one of the great international concerns of our time, linked with worries about terrorism, poverty, civil conflict and human rights violations.

“Improving our approach to such ‘wicked problems’ requires interdisciplinary legal research, and the University of Edinburgh has an amazing range of scholars across the law and social sciences, which we hope to bring together around these questions through the Edinburgh Centre for International and Global Law.”