Staff Profiles

Dr Gleider I Hernandez

Lecturer in Durham Law School

Deputy Director of Postgraduate Studies, Durham Law School

Visiting Scholars Coordinator, Durham Law School

Chair of Library Committee, Durham Law School

Deputy Chair PG SSCC (PG Matters), Durham Law School

Member of the Human Rights Centre

Member of the Islam, Law and Modernity

Member in Law and Conflict at Durham

Contact Dr Gleider I Hernandez (email at g.i.hernandez@durham.ac.uk)

Biography

Gleider I Hernández joined the Law School during the 2010-2011 academic year. Prior to arriving in Durham, he served as Associate Legal Officer at the International Court of Justice (2007-2010), acting from 2008-2010 as Law Clerk to Vice-President Peter Tomka and Judge Bruno Simma. At the Law Faculty of the University of Oxford, Gleider worked as a Graduate Teaching Assistant, leading tutorials in Public International Law (2005-2007). Also at Oxford, he was appointed as Teaching Fellow at the Environmental Change Institute (2006-2007), where he lectured in international environmental law, as Senior Editor of the Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal (2006-2007), and as Convener of the Public International Law Discussion Group (2005-2006). Gleider has also practised as a barrister and solicitor, in public and administrative law, at the law firm Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP (Montreal, Canada), until 2004.

Gleider holds a D.Phil from the University of Oxford where, under the supervision of Sir Franklin Berman, he completed a dissertation on the international judicial function from the perspective of the International Court of Justice; it will be published by the Oxford University Press. Previously, he read for an LL.M (cum laude) at Leiden University (the Netherlands) and for BCL and LL.B degrees at McGill University (Canada).

Gleider's research interests lie within the general area of public international law, and particularly relate to international legal theory (nature and sources of international law), international dispute settlement, and the law and practice of international institutions. He also has an interest in how specialised areas of international law (eg international criminal law, international environmental law, international investment law, and the law of armed conflict) interact with general international law. Gleider is a member of the Academic Review Board of the Cambridge Journal of International and Comparative Law.

Gleider is fluent in English, French and Spanish, and is conversational in Dutch.

Grants Awarded

2012: Judicial Conversations: The Role of Judiciaries in Resolving International Conflicts. (£3385.00 from Modern Law Review)

Publications

Books: authored

Hernandez, Gleider I. (2013). The International Court of Justice and the Judicial Function. Oxford Oxford University Press.

Books: reviews

Hernandez, Gleider I. (2010). The International Judge: A Book Review. Leiden Journal of International Law 23(1): 272-276.

Books: sections

Hernandez, G.I. (Forthcoming). The Interaction between Investment Law and the Law of Armed Conflict in the Iterpretation of Full Protection and Security Clauses. In Investment Law within International Law: An Integrationist Perspective. Brolmann, C. & Radi, Y. Cambridge University Press.
Hernández, G.I. (2013). Federated Entities in International Law: disaggregating the federal state?. In Statehood and Self-Determination: Reconciling Tradition and Modernity in International Law. French, D. Cambridge University Press.
Hernández, G.I. (2013). International Judicial Law-Making. In Research Handbook on International Law-Making. Brölmann, C. & Radi, Y. Edward Elgar.
Hernández, G.I. (2013). On Interpretation. In International Legal Positivism in a Post-Modern World. d'Aspremont, Jean & Kammerhofer, Jorg. Cambridge University Press.
Sloan, J. & Hernandez, G.I. (2013). The International Court of Justice and the Institutional Law of the United Nations. In The Development of International Law by the International Court of Justice. Tams, C.J. & Sloan, J. Oxford University Press.
Simma, Bruno & Hernandez, Gleider I. (2011). Legal Consequences of an Impermissible Reservation to a Human Rights Treaty: Where Do We Stand?. In The Law of Treaties beyond the Vienna Convention. Cannizzaro, Enzo. Oxford Oxford University Press. 60-85.
Hernandez, Gleider I. (2011). Non-State Actors from the Perspective of the International Court of Justice. In Participants in the International Legal System: Multiple Perspectives on Non-State Actors in International Law. d'Aspremont, Jean. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge Cavendish. 140-164.
Tomka, Peter & Hernandez, Gleider I. (2011). Provisional Measures in the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea. In Coexistence, Cooperation and Solidarity—Liber Amicorum Ruediger Wolfrum. Matz-Lueck, Nele, Voeneky, Silja, Stoll, Tobias, Hestermeyer, Holger, Roeben, Volker, Seibert-Fohr, Anya & Koenig, Doris. Leiden: Brill Academic Press NV. II: 1763-1787.
Hernandez, Gleider I. (2010). On Multilingualism and the International Legal Process. In Select Proceedings of the European Society of International Law. Ruiz-Fabri, Helene, Wolfrum, Ruediger & Gogolin, Jana Oxford: Hart Publishing. 2: 441-460.

Conference papers

Hernandez, G.I. (2012), Constraints on the Function of the International Judge, 1st Annual Conference of the Cambridge Journal of International and Comparative Law. Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Hernandez, G.I. (2012), Federated Entities and International Personality, Durham-Cambridge European Law Joint Research Colloquium. Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Hernandez, G.I. (2012), Interpreting and Overstepping Security Council Resolutions, British Army Legal Services Annual International Law Conference. Swindon, United Kingdom.
Hernandez, G.I. (2012), Kosovo and the International Court of Justice, International Criminal Law Society Kosovo conference. Pristina, Kosovo.
Hernandez, G.I. & Lieflaender, T.R. (2012), Overstepping Security Council Resolutions, Annual Spring Conference of the British Branch of the International Law Association. Nottingham, United Kingdom.
Hernandez, G.I. (2012), State Responsibility and Cyber-warfare, 4th International Conference on Cyber-Conflict. Tallinn, Estonia.
Hernandez, G.I. (2012), The Concept of 'International Community' and the International Court of Justice, Judicial Conversations (hosted by Law and Conflict at Durham). Durham, United Kingdom.
Hernandez, G.I. (2012), The Judicial Character and Role of the International Court of Justice, Glasgow ILA Seminar Series. Glasgow, United Kingdom.
Hernández, G.I. (2011), ‘Las deliberaciónes en la Corte Internacional de Justicia en La Haya’, ‘Reflexiones sobre la redacción colectiva en la Corte Internacional de Justicia’, and ‘La función de la disidencia en las juridicciones internacionales’, three lectures delivered (in Spanish) at the 10th CIDER (Congreso Internacional de Derecho y de Relaciones Internacionales) conference in La Paz, Santa Cruz, and Cochabamba, Bolivia, 16-19 November 2011, Congreso Internacional de Derecho y de Relaciones Internacionales. La Paz, Cochabamba, and Santa Cruz.
Hernández, G.I. (2011), On Interpretation in the International Legal Process, in d'Aspremont, J. & Kammerhofer, J. eds, International Legal Positivism in a Post-Modern World. Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Cambridge University Press (see publications above).
Hernandez, Gleider I. (2011), Sub-State Actors and the Development of International Law, British Branch of the International Law Association’s Spring Conference, ‘States, peoples and minorities: whither the nation in international law?. Sheffield, United Kingdom.
Hernandez, Gleider I. (2011), When International Investment and Armed Conflict Collide: A Response, The Interaction of International Investment Law with Other Fields of Public International Law. Leiden, the Netherlands.
Hernandez, Gleider I. (2009), The “Science” of Adjudication, Joint Research Forum of the American and European Societies of International Law. Helsinki, Finland.
Hernandez, Gleider I. (2008), On the Official Languages of International Law, 3rd Biennial Conference of the European Society of International Law. Heidelberg, Germany.

Edited works: contributions

Hernández, G.I. & Tzanakopoulos, A. (2013). Article 23. In Le Pacte de la Société des Nations: Commentaire article par article. Kolb, R. Pedone.
Hernández, G.I. & Tzanakopoulos, A. (2013). Article 24. In Le Pacte de la Société des Nations: Commentaire article par article. Kolb, R. Pedone.
Hernandez, Gleider I. (2011). Effects of Territorial Change. In Max-Planck Encyclopaedia of Public International Law. Wolfrum, Ruediger. Oxford Oxford University Press.
Hernandez, Gleider I. (2011). The Delagoa Bay Railway Arbitration. In Max-Planck Encyclopaedia of Public International Law. Wolfrum, Ruediger. Oxford Oxford University Press.

Journal papers: academic

Hernandez, G.I. (Forthcoming). A Reluctant Guardian: The International Court of Justice and the Concept of 'International Community'. British Year Book of International Law 83.
Hernandez, G.I. (2012). Impartiality, Bias, and the International Court of Justice. Cambridge Journal of International and Comparative Law 1(3).

Other media: research equivalent

Hernandez, G.I. & Lieflaender, T.R. (2011). Can Gaddafi invoke self-defence against NATO; have NATO leaders committed the crime of aggression?. EJILTalk!: blog of the European Journal of International Law

Theses: PhD

Hernandez, Gleider I. (2010). Judicial Consciousness, Judicial Function, and the International Court of Justice. PhD: 285.