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Dr Jed Odermatt

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Dr Jed Odermatt is Reader at The City Law School, City St George's, University of London, where he is a member of the International Law and Affairs Group (ILAG) and the Institute for the Study of European Law (ISEL).  His research focuses on public international law, international dispute settlement, and EU external relations law. He has published extensively on the role of international law in global governance and the evolving relationship between EU and international legal orders. He is the author of International Law and the European Union (Cambridge University Press, 2021). 

Jed’s research also examines legal education and pedagogy, particularly in the areas of sustainability, interdisciplinary teaching, and inclusive curriculum design. He is Principal Investigator of Working Together for Change: Strategic Approaches to Sustainability Education Through Authentic Group-based Assessments, a funded research project supported by the Centre for Online and Distance Education (CODE), University of London. He is a member of the Editorial Board of The Law Teacher: The International Journal of Legal Education, where he contributes to advancing the internationalisation of legal pedagogy.

Jed teaches and supervises in public international law and international human rights law. He leads the interdisciplinary undergraduate module Sustainability and Climate Change, which brings together legal, scientific, and social perspectives on climate change and sustainability. He also coordinates the City Law School research training programme for postgraduate students. He holds an MA in Academic Practice from City St George’s, University of London.

Qualifications

  • PhD, University of Leuven, Belgium
  • MA in Academic Practice, City, University of London, United Kingdom
  • LLM International and European Law, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
  • Bachelor of Law and Legal Practice (Hons), Flinders University, Australia
  • Bachelor of International Studies (Hons), Flinders University, Australia

Employment

  • Postdoctoral Researcher, Centre of Excellence for International Courts (iCourts), University of Copenhagen, Denmark, September 2016 - August 2018
  • Max Weber Fellow, European University Institute, Italy, September 2015 - August 2021
  • Doctoral Researcher, Levuen Centre for Global Governance Studies, University of Leuven, Belgium, September 2010 - August 2015
  • Junior Researcher, Asser Institute, Netherlands, July 2008 - August 2010

Administrative roles

  • Assistant Dean (Enterprise)
  • Co-convenor, International Law and Affairs Group (ILAG)
  • Research Ethics Committee, City Law School

Memberships of professional organisations

  • European Society of International Law, Interest Group 'EU as a Global Actor', Member of Coordinating Committee, April 2020 - present
  • International Law Association, Study Group: International Law of Regional Organisations (co-rapporteur)

Teaching

LU3132 Human Rights Law in the UK
LU2025 Foundations of Public International Law
LU2037 Sustainability and Climate Change
LMM128 International Human Rights in Law & Practice
LLM189 International Organisations and Global Challenges

Research students

Andrea Maria Pelliconi

Thesis title: Demographic Engineering and Forced Migration in International Law and Practice. A Human Rights Assessment

Christopher Arvidsson

Attendance: October 2023

Thesis title: Addressing the Improbable: Law, Courts and Existential Risks

Aminah Karim

Thesis title: The Forgotten Genocide: The Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971. Why are the atrocities committed during the Liberation War, not identified as a formal genocide by the international community?

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Books (2)

Chapters (37)

  • Odermatt, J. (2025). The International Court of Justice and the Court of Justice of the European Union. Research Handbook on the International Court of Justice (pp. 294-318). Edward Elgar Publishing. ISBN 9781788111379.
  • Odermatt, J. (2025). The International Court of Justice and the Court of Justice of the European Union. Research Handbook on the International Court of Justice (pp. 294-318).
  • Odermatt, J. (2025). What the Court Didn’t Say The ICJ’s Climate Opinion and the Politics of Judicial Restraint. In Tigre, M.A., Bönnemann, M. and De Spiegeleir, A. (Eds.), The ICJ’s Advisory Opinion on Climate Change: An Introduction (pp. 293-303). Verfassungsbooks. ISBN 9783565132102.
  • Odermatt, J. (2022). The European Union’s Role in the Making and Confirmation of Customary International Law. The European Union and Customary International Law (pp. 66-94). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781108832977.
  • Schaefer, S. and Odermatt, J. (2022). Nomen est Omen? The Relevance of ‘EU Party’ in International Law. Eu and Its Member States Joint Participation in International Agreements (pp. 131-150).
  • Odermatt, J. (2022). Invoking Customary International Law before the Court: Racke. EU External Relations Law Hart Publishing. ISBN 9781509939695.
  • Odermatt, J. (2021). INSTITUTIONAL PROVISIONS. The Paris Agreement on Climate Change (pp. 373-374). Edward Elgar Publishing. ISBN 9781788979184.
  • Odermatt, J. (2021). INSTITUTIONAL PROVISIONS. The Paris Agreement on Climate Change (pp. 371-372). Edward Elgar Publishing. ISBN 9781788979184.
  • Odermatt, J. (2021). INSTITUTIONAL PROVISIONS. The Paris Agreement on Climate Change (pp. 369-370). Edward Elgar Publishing. ISBN 9781788979184.
  • Odermatt, J. (2021). INSTITUTIONAL PROVISIONS. The Paris Agreement on Climate Change (pp. 364-368). Edward Elgar Publishing. ISBN 9781788979184.
  • Odermatt, J. (2021). Articles 16-19 Institutional Provisions. In Van Calster, G. and Reins, L. (Eds.), The Paris Agreement on Climate Change: A Commentary Edward Elgar Publishing. ISBN 9781788979184.
  • Odermatt, J. (2020). Brexit and International Legal Sovereignty. In Santos Vara, J. and Wessel, R.A. (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook on the International Dimension of Brexit Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
  • Odermatt, J. (2020). The EU’s Economic Engagement with Western Sahara: Assessing the Compatibility of Agreements with International Law. In Duval, A. and Kassoti, E. (Eds.), The Legality of Economic Activities in Occupied Territories: International, EU Law and Business and Human Rights Perspectives London: Routledge. ISBN 9780367254988.
  • Odermatt, J. (2020). Facultative Mixity in the International Legal Order – Tolerating European Exceptionalism? In Chamon, M. and Govaere, I. (Eds.), EU External Relations Post-Lisbon: The Law and Practice of Facultative Mixity Brill. ISBN 9789004421981.
  • Odermatt, J. (2020). The EU and International Institutions. In Wessel, R.A. and Larik, J. (Eds.), EU External Relations Law Text, Cases and Materials Hart Publishing. ISBN 9781509926763.
  • Odermatt, J. (2020). Convergence through EU Unilateralism. Framing Convergence with the Global Legal Order Hart Publishing. ISBN 9781509934379.
  • Odermatt, J. (2019). Brexit, justice and dispute settlement. On Brexit Edward Elgar Publishing. ISBN 9781789903003.
  • Wessel, R.A. and Odermatt, J. (2019). The European Union’s Engagement with Other International Institutions: Emerging Questions of EU and International Law. In Wessel, R.A. and Odermatt, J. (Eds.), Research Handbook on the European Union and International Organizations Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
  • Odermatt, J. and Wessel, R.A. (2019). The Challenges of Engaging with International Institutions The EU and Multilateralism Under Strain. In Odermatt, J. and Wessel, R.A. (Eds.), Research Handbook on the European Union and International Organizations Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
  • Odermatt, J. (2018). The European Union as a cybersecurity actor. Research Handbook on the EU’s Common Foreign and Security Policy Edward Elgar Publishing. ISBN 9781785364075.
  • Odermatt, J. (2018). Brexit and British trade policy. Routledge Handbook of the Politics of Brexit (pp. 80-91).
  • Odermatt, J. (2018). The Principle of Autonomy: an Adolescent Disease of EU External Relations Law? In Cremona, M. (Ed.), Structural Principles in EU External Relations Law Oxford: Hart Publishing.
  • Wouters, J. and Odermatt, J. (2016). International Banking Standards, Private Law, and the European Union. Private Law in the External Relations of the EU (pp. 171-200). Oxford University Press.
  • Wouters, J. and Odermatt, J. (2016). Assessing the Legality of Decisions. In Hurd, I., Johnstone, I. and Cogan, J.K. (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of International Organizations (pp. 1006-1006). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199672202.
  • Wouters, J. and Odermatt, J. (2016). Certain Expenses of the United Nations (Article 17, paragraph 2 of the Charter): advisory opinion, [1962] ICJ Reports 151. In Ryngaert, C., Dekker, I.F., Wessel, R.A. and Wouters, J. (Eds.), Judicial Decisions on the Law of International Organizations (pp. 191-191). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198743613.
  • Wouters, J., Chané, A.L. and Odermatt, J. (2015). The european union: A shadowy global actor?: The UN system as an example. Actors of Postnational Rule Making Contemporary Challenges of European and International Law (pp. 163-184).
  • In Smith, M., Keukeleire, S. and Vanhoonacker, S. (Eds.), (2015). The Diplomatic System of the European Union. In Routledge.
  • Wouters, J., Chané, A.L., Odermatt, J. and Ramopoulos, T. (2015). Improving the European Union’s Status in the United Nations and the UN System: An Objective Without a Strategy? European Union in International Organisations and Global Governance Recent Developments (pp. 45-74).
  • Wouters, J., Anna-Luise, C., Odermatt, J. and Ramopoulos, T. (2015). Improving the EU's Status in the UN and the UN System: An Objective without a Strategy? The European Union in International Organisations and Global Governance: Recent Developments Hart Publishing. ISBN 9781849467001.
  • Wouters, J. and Odermatt, J. (2014). Quis custodiet consilium securitatis?: Reflections on the law-making powers of the security council. Security Council as Global Legislator (pp. 71-96).
  • Wouters, J., Odermatt, J. and Ramopoulos, T. (2014). Worlds Apart? Comparing the Approaches of the European Court of Justice and the EU Legislature to International Law. European Court of Justice and External Relations Law Constitutional Challenges (pp. 249-280).
  • Wouters, J., Odermatt, J. and Ramopoulos, T. (2013). The Status of the European Union at the United Nations General Assembly. The European Union in the World Essays in Honour of Marc Maresceau Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. ISBN 9789004259140.
  • Wouters, J., Kerckhoven, S.V. and Odermatt, J. (2013). The EU at the G20 and the G20’s Impact on the EU. The EU's Role in Global Governance (pp. 259-271). Oxford University Press.
  • Ramopoulos, T. and Odermatt, J. (2013). EU Diplomacy: Measuring Success in Light of the Post-Lisbon Institutional Framework. Global Power Shift (pp. 19-35).
  • Ramopoulos, T. and Odermatt, J. (2013). EU Diplomacy: Measuring Success in Light of the Post-Lisbon Institutional Framework. Global Power Europe - Vol. 1 (pp. 19-35). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. ISBN 9783642324116.
  • Wouters, J. and Odermatt, J. (2013). Norms Emanating from International Bodies and Their Role in the Legal Order of the European Union. Between Autonomy and Dependence (pp. 47-68). T. M. C. Asser Press. ISBN 9789067049023.
  • Reydams, L. and Odermatt, J. (2012). Mandates. International Prosecutors (pp. 81-112). Oxford University PressOxford. ISBN 0199554293.

Internet publications (17)

  • Odermatt, J.(2025).What the Court Didn’t Say The ICJ’s Climate Opinion and the Politics of Judicial Restraint. Verfassungsblog.
  • Odermatt, J.(2025).The Power of Perception – Aesthetic Theory and International Justice. Opinio Juris.
  • Pelliconi, A.M. and Odermatt, J.(2024).Benefit v Consent: CJEU’s Front Polisario II Judgment and the Law of Self-Determination. CIL Dialogues.
  • Odermatt, J.(2024).Whose Consent? On the Joined Cases C-779/21 P, Commission v Front Polisario and C-799/21 P, Council v Front Polisario. Verfassungsblog..
  • Odermatt, J. and Petkova, B.(2024).A Political Question Doctrine at the International Court of Justice? EJIL Talk!.
  • Odermatt, J. and Cardwell, P.J.(2023).Eurovision: even before the singing starts, the contest is a fascinating reflection of international rules and politics. The Conversation.
  • Odermatt, J.(2022).Green Power and SCE Solar v Spain: From the Primacy of EU Law to Lex Superior. City Law Forum.
  • Odermatt, J.(2022).Options for a Peace Settlement for Ukraine: Option Paper IV – Ukrainian Pathways to the European Union. Opinio Juris.
  • Odermatt, J.(2021).Motivation and the Design of Online Learning Platforms. Learning at City.
  • Odermatt, J.(2021).Contesting Consent: Why the EU-Morocco Trade Agreements Were Concluded Without the Consent of the People of Western Sahara. Verfassungsblog.
  • Odermatt, J.(2021).EU General Court: EU-Morocco trade agreements concluded without the consent of the people of Western Sahara. City Law Forum.
  • Odermatt, J.(2021).International Law and the European Union: The Challenge of Integrating Multiple Perspectives. City Law Forum.
  • Odermatt, J.(2021).European Citizens’ Initiative on trade in goods originating in occupied territories. City Law Forum.
  • Odermatt, J.(2017).Lex Specialis and the Interpretation of Article 50 TEU. E-International Relations.
  • Odermatt, J.(2016).Brexit and International Law. EJIL Talk!.
  • Odermatt, J.(2015).House of Cards (Season 3): International Law and American Power. Centre de droit international - Université libre de Bruxelles.
  • Odermatt, J.(2014).Court of Justice of the European Union finds Draft Agreement on EU Accession to ECHR is Incompatible with EU Law. Cambridge International Law Journal Blog.

Journal articles (35)

Reports (11)

  • Besson, S., Kassoti, E., Lusa Bordin, F. and Odermatt, J. (2024). The International Law of Regional Organizations. London, UK: International Law Association.
  • Odermatt, J. (2020). Certain Expenses of the United Nations (Article 17, Paragraph 2, of the Charter), 20th July 1962 (ICJ GL No 49, [1962] ICJ Rep 151, ICGJ 221 (ICJ 1962)), OXIO 225..
  • Odermatt, J., Wouters, J., De Baere, G., Van Vooren, B., Raube, K., Ramopoulos, T.... Tanghe, Y. (2013). The Organisation and Functioning of the European External Action Service: Achievements, Challenges and Opportunities. Directorate-General for External Policies of the Union. ISBN 9789282341346.
  • Lutchman, R. Demirel v Stadt Schwäbisch Gmünd, Final judgment, Case C-12/86, [1987] ECR 3719, ILEC 064 (CJEU 1987), 30th September 1987, Court of Justice of the European Union [CJEU]; European Court of Justice [ECJ]..
  • Odermatt, J. Onkel Sam, Anklagemyndigheden v Poulsen and Diva Navigation Corporation, Final judgment, Case C-286/90, [1992] ECR I-6019, ILEC 052 (CJEU 1994), 24th November 1992, Court of Justice of the European Union [CJEU]; European Court of Justice [ECJ]. Oxford University Press.
  • Odermatt, J. Firma Brita GmbH v Hauptzollamt Hamburg-Hafen, Final judgment, C-386/08, [2010] OJ C100/4, [2010] ECR I‐1289, ILEC 010 (CJEU 2010), 25th February 2010, Court of Justice of the European Union [CJEU]; European Court of Justice [ECJ]; European Court of Justice (4th Chamber). Oxford University Press.
  • Odermatt, J. Firma Brita GmbH v Hauptzollamt Hamburg-Hafen, Final judgment, C-386/08, [2010] OJ C100/4, [2010] ECR I‐1289, ILEC 010 (CJEU 2010), 25th February 2010, Court of Justice of the European Union [CJEU]; European Court of Justice [ECJ]; European Court of Justice (4th Chamber)..
  • Odermatt, J. Anastasiou I, The Queen v Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Cypfruvex (UK) Limited (intervening) and Cyprus Fruit and Vegetable Enterprises Limited (Cypfruvex) (intervening), ex parte SP Anastasiou (Pissouri) Limited, Judgment, Case C-432/92, [1994] ECR 3087, ILEC 090 (CJEU 1994), 5th July 1994, Court of Justice of the European Union [CJEU]; European Court of Justice [ECJ]..
  • Odermatt, J. Air Transport Association of America and ors v Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, Judgment, Case C-366/10, [2012] OJ C49/7, ILEC 001 (CJEU 2011), [2012] 2 CMLR 4, 21st December 2011, Court of Justice of the European Union [CJEU]; European Court of Justice [ECJ]; European Court of Justice (Grand Chamber)..
  • Odermatt, J. Opinion pursuant to Article 218(11) TFEU - Draft international agreement - Accession of the European Union to the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms - Compatibility of the draft agreement with the EU and FEU Treaties, Opinion, Case C-2/13, EU:C:2014:2454, ILEC 086 (CJEU 2014), 18th December 2014, Court of Justice of the European Union [CJEU]; European Court of Justice [ECJ]..
  • Odermatt, J. Segi and ors v Council of the European Union, Spain (intervening) and United Kingdom (intervening), Judgment, Case no C-355/04 P, (2007) ECR I-1657, (CJEU 2007), 27th February 2007, Court of Justice of the European Union [CJEU]; European Court of Justice [ECJ]; European Court of Justice (Grand Chamber)..

Working papers (6)