Christopher Greenwood, QC, is a professor of international law at the London School of Economics and a barrister at Essex Court Chambers, one of the "magic circle" top commercial sets. Professor Christopher Greenwood has taught at LSE for 12 years and is also a practising barrister who has been a QC since 1999. At the end of this month, Professor Greenwood will be leaving LSE to take up his new position as a judge at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), where he will serve a nine year term as one of the court's 15 judges - hearing cases that range from territorial disputes and allegations of racial discrimination to issues of genocide and environmental protection. Greenwood, 52, studied law at Magdalene College, Cambridge, and was called to the Bar in 1978. He has appeared in many prominent cases in Europe’s highest courts — the Lockerbie bombing, Pinochet, Kosovo, Rwanda — but he is arguably best known for providing in November 2002 the legal opinion for the invasion of Iraq; Lord Goldsmith, QC, then Attorney-General, consulted him before giving his own opinion on the legality of the conflict. The opinion concluded that the invasion by allied powers was sanctioned by the UN Security Council. Greenwood was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in 2002 for services to international law.
Professor Greenwood has also very recently been awarded a knighthood for services to public international law in the Queen's New Year Honours list 2009.
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