Davinia 

AZIZ

Davinia is an Adjunct Associate Professor at NUS Law and has been a full-time practitioner of public international law for fifteen years. Davinia first joined the Singapore Legal Service in 2002. Her current assignment is in the Singapore mission at The Hague, as legal adviser appointed at the diplomatic rank of Minister-Counsellor. She is a proud alumna of NUS Law, where she first studied Public International Law and started her educator journey twenty years ago as an adjunct member of the Constitutional & Administrative Law team.

Davinia previously convened an elective on the law of international organisations and now co-convenes NUS Law’s highly rated public international law externship elective. Her practice deeply informs her teaching philosophy, which prioritises a supportive, participatory classroom environment, where students can come to law as an essentially human profession, in a self-reflexive, collaborative, and context-sensitive way. Her writing reflects longstanding preoccupations with how key doctrine, such as sovereignty and immunity, is constructed and deployed to shape our world, and with interrogating the role of professional elites in public international law.

Davinia holds postgraduate degrees from the University of Oxford and from the New York University School of Law, where she was a Hauser Global Scholar and later an Institute for International Law and Justice Fellow. She has given invited talks at the Hague Academy of International Law and at Professional Training Workshops of Durham University’s IBRU: Centre for Borders Research. She is a Co-Chair of the International Law Association Committee on Alternative Dispute Resolution in International Law.

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8460-3663

• Public International Law
• Law and intractable conflict
• Territory, oceans and seas, more-than-human spaces
• Social science approaches to International Law
• Learning and development, teaching International Law