Biography
Tim researches and teaches in international law. His research lies at the intersection of public international law, the environment and colonialism. He is particular concerned with territory, sovereignty and climate change as well as artistic expressions and performances of international law in informal spaces. At the EUI, Tim is developing a project that theorises the relationship between place and international law. He is also working on a book project on peoples’ tribunals and international law, which explores the institutional and legal form the International Rights of Nature Tribunal. The project traced a series of international legal practices and procedures that are operationalised alongside the Westphalian international legal order, and considered what the Tribunal visualises about the discipline of international law and its relation with the environment.
Prior to joining EUI, Tim was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Amsterdam Center for International Law (ACIL) and a member of the Sustainable Global Economic Law (SGEL) project. He completed his PhD at Melbourne Law School under the Institute for International Law and the Humanities (IILAH). He has been a returning faculty member for the Oxford Consortium for Human Rights, and a Lecturer and Teaching Fellow at Melbourne Law School. He has taught and given lectures in public international law, international human rights law and international environmental law at Melbourne Law School, the University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, Amsterdam Law School, The New School in New York, Australian National University and Osgoode Hall Law School.
His research has won multiple awards, including the 2023 Melbourne Law School Graduate Research Prize in 2023. He has published in leading international journals such as the Leiden Journal of International Law and The International Journal of Human Rights Law, and is an Editor for the Journal of Human Rights and the Environment. He has held Visiting Fellowships at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law at the University of Cambridge, the College of Law at the Australian National University, Melbourne Law School and was offered the IGLP Residential Fellowship at Harvard University. In 2026, he will be an SNF Scientific Exchange Visiting Fellow at the international law department at the Geneva Graduate Institute.
Tim also holds practical experience in international human rights law as an advisor to the Human Rights Committee (member Professor Yvonne Donders), and has contributed to Friends of the Earth Australia’s economic justice collective legal team on cases under the OECD National Contact Points for Responsible Business Conduct. He holds a BA in Global Studies (Summa Cum Laude) from Westminster University's Honours College, and a Master in International Law (Distinction) from the School of Oriental Studies (SOAS), where he was awarded Best Overall Course Performance for Master in International Law.