Jill Barrett Email & Phone Number

London, Gb

London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

As an independent consultant I provide a range of advisory, teaching and other services making use of my extensive experience of international law and policy work in government, including:- advice on international law and international negotiations; - expert opinions on questions of international treaty law and practice in relation to international arbitrations;- lectures, seminars and professional training programmes in international law, international negotiations, treaty practice, the workings of government, constitutional law.My clients include governments, solicitors, companies, NGOs, secretariats of international organisations, universities and others.

Various Locations

Legal adviser to UK delegation at every ATCM 2002-2009.Staff member of Antarctic Treaty Secretariat at ATCM in 2010.Legal adviser (pro bono) to Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coaltion delegation at ATCM 2011-2013.

London, United Kingdom

Called to the Bar 1989

London And Jakarta

Treaty Law and Practice project; comprising:- Workshop on "Treaty Management Practice in International Organisations: Lessons Learnt and ASEAN Practice", at ASEAN Headquarters, Jakarta, 2 December 2016; and - Publication of Handbook on Good Treaty Practice (March 2020)

Mile End Campus

I am delighted to be appointed Visiting Reader in the School of Law, Queen Mary University of London, with effect from 1 October 2016. I look forward to contributing to the activities of the School including teaching LLM courses in public international law.

London, United Kingdom

My role is to lead and develop the Arthur Watts research and events programme in public international law at the Institute. I'm currently working on Treaty Law and Practice, including a joint project with the Centre for International Law in Singapore, which focuses on treaty practices of States and international organisations especially in the Asian region: http://www.biicl.org/treatypractice/Other projects in progress include research on the Antarctic Treaty System and a book on "Law of the Sea - UNCLOS as a living treaty".

Graduate School Of International Co-Operation Studies, Kobe University, Japan

I was Visiting Professor of Public International Law at Kobe University, Japan, July-September 2013, teaching postgraduate students at the Graduate School of International Co-operation Studies (GSICS), and researching Japanese treaty practice.

London And New York

During my 20-year FCO career, my responsibilities included advising on public international law, EU and UK law on a wide range of subjects, such as treaties, international organisations, environment and energy, Polar Regions, Overseas Territories, devolution/foreign affairs, sanctions, human rights, shipping and law of the sea, and on various countries and regions, such as Africa, China & Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan and South America. My last role was leading the Government's work on creating a new statutory regime for parliamentary scrutiny of treaties, resulting in enactment of the provisions on Ratification of Treaties in the Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010. I also led the FCO's legal work on the Draft Antarctic Bill, published in 2009, to implement the Antarctic Environmental Liability Annex which I negotiated on behalf of the United Kingdom from 2002 to its adoption in 2005. (The Bill became the Antarctic Act 2013).I was posted to the United Kingdom Mission to the United Nations, New York from 1994 to 1997, where, as First Secretary (Legal) I represented the UK on UN bodies, including the General Committee and the Sixth (Legal) Committee of the General Assembly, Security Council, Charter Committee, Host Country Committee; and was responsible for the Mission's work on sanctions, treaties, law of the sea, Antarctica and UN elections to certain legal posts.For more details: http://www.biicl.org/jillbarrett

London, United Kingdom

Durham City

Master Of Laws (Llm), Law, First Class

Activities and Societies: Trinity Hall Women Graduates Rowing Club; University Ballroom Dancing Team LLM in EEC law, Comparative Law.

Ba Honours, Law, First Class

Ba Honours, Law, First Class

Activities and Societies: Elected College Rep on DSU External Affairs Committee; Ballroom Dancing. BA Hons degree in Law