Dr Jamie Trinidad KC

Dr Jamie Trinidad KC

After completing his PhD at Wolfson, Jamie was elected a Fellow of the College in 2013. He is currently the Director of Studies for the LLM students.

Dr Jamie Trinidad KC

Jamie's research and teaching covers most areas of public international law. He has a particular interest in questions surrounding decolonization, territory, self-determination, and the law and practice of international courts and tribunals. In addition to his academic work, he is a practising lawyer. He qualified at the Bar of England and Wales in 2001 (as a member of Lincoln's Inn), and the Bar of Gibraltar in 2005 (appointed King's Counsel in 2023). He is a Senior Counsel at Albertson (14 Old Square, Lincoln's Inn), and a consultant at Isolas LLP, Gibraltar's oldest law firm.

 

Selected publications

Monographs:

• The Western Sahara Question and International Law: Recognition Practice and Self-Determination (Routledge 2024) (with S Allen).
• Self-Determination in Disputed Colonial Territories (Cambridge University Press 2018).

Edited volumes:

• The International Court of Justice and Decolonisation: New Directions from the Chagos Advisory Opinion (Cambridge University Press 2021) (with T Burri).
• The Future of International Courts: Regional, Institutional and Procedural Challenges (Routledge 2019) (With A Kent and N Skoutaris).

Peer-reviewed articles and book chapters:

• ‘Questions of public health before investment tribunals: can amici curiae play a useful role?’, in S Faccio, M Pertile and A Antonino (eds) International Investment Law and the Pandemic (Brill 2023) (with A Kent).
• ‘Better Late Than Never? The Environmental Impact Assessment and its Timing and Function’ (with TD Grant and A Kent), 39:3 Wisconsin International Law Journal (2022) 391-429.
• ‘Self-determination and contested peoplehood in Gibraltar: separating the law from the rhetoric’, 110:3 Round Table: Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs (2021) 347-356.
• ‘The International Court of Justice and Decolonisation: New Directions from the Chagos Advisory Opinion: Introduction’ (with T Burri), in The International Court of Justice and Decolonisation: New Directions from the Chagos Advisory Opinion (Cambridge University Press 2021) 1-8.
• ‘Amicus Curiae Interventions in International Proceedings: Forever Friends?’ (with A Kent), in The Future of International Courts: Regional, Institutional and Procedural Challenges (Routledge 2019) 235-249.
• ‘What Does the Future Hold for International Courts?’ (with A Kent and N Skoutaris), in The Future of International Courts: Regional, Institutional and Procedural Challenges (Routledge 2019) 1-7.
• ‘Self-determination and territorial integrity in the Chagos advisory proceedings: potential broader ramifications’ 4 Questions of International Law (2018).
• ‘The Disputed Waters Around Gibraltar’ 86 British Yearbook of International Law (2017) 101-154.
• ‘The Management of Amicus Participation Before International Criminal Tribunals’ 17:4 International Criminal Law Review (2017) 728-747 (with A Kent).
• ‘International Law Scholars as Amici Curiae’ 29:4 Leiden Journal of International Law (2017) 1081-1101 (with A Kent).
• ‘Decolonization: French India’, Max Planck Encyclopaedia of Public International Law (2017).
• ‘“Culturomics” and International Law Research’, Select Proceedings of the European Society of International Law (Hart 2016) 261-273.
• ‘An Evaluation of Morocco’s Claims to Spain’s Remaining Territories in Africa’ 61:4 International and Comparative Law Quarterly (2012) 961-975.

Book reviews

• Fraudulent Evidence in International Courts and Tribunals by MW Reisman and C Skinner, (Cambridge University Press 2014), in 86 British Yearbook of International Law (2017) 236-238.
• The Life of Hersch Lauterpacht by E Lauterpacht, (Cambridge University Press 2011), in 24:4 Cambridge Review of International Affairs (2011) 702-3.
• Sovereignty and the Stateless Nation by K Azopardi, (Hart 2008), 70:1 Cambridge Law Journal (2011) 272-274.

Case notes

• Dispute Concerning Delimitation of the Maritime Boundary Between Mauritius and Maldives in the Indian Ocean, Preliminary Objections, 60:6 ASIL International Legal Materials [2021] 969 (with T Burri).
• Decisions of British courts in 2016 involving questions of public international law 87 British Yearbook of International Law (2017) 3-39 (with A Sanger).