Medway Dean in Nobel Peace Prize nominated team

Kent Law School professor, Nick Grief, is a member of a legal team nominated for its work at the International Court of Justice.

The international team of lawyers represents the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) in nuclear disarmament cases against India, Pakistan and the UK. The RMI alleges that each State is failing to comply with its obligation under international law to pursue in good faith and conclude negotiations for the worldwide elimination of nuclear weapons.

Professor Grief practises at the Bar from Doughty Street Chambers and is due to appear before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague next week.

Professor Grief was brought on to the RMI’s legal team by Keller Rohrback LLP, a US law firm acting for the RMI in parallel proceedings filed in the Federal District Court in San Francisco.

The RMI’s legal team, led by the RMI’s former Foreign Minister Tony de Brum, has been nominated for the Peace Prize by Secretary-General of the International Peace Bureau (IPB) Colin Archer. In a letter to the Norwegian Nobel Institute, he praises the team’s ‘highly effective’ work and says the IPB sincerely believes that the Marshall Islands initiative will prove to be a significant and decisive step in ending the nuclear arms race and in achieving a world without nuclear weapons.

Professor Grief  teaches Public International Law and EU Law at Kent Law School.