Dr Ralph Wilde is a Reader at the Faculty of Laws of University College London, part of the University of London, and an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University Law Center. He is Joint Secretary of the British Branch of the International Law Association (ILA) and a member of the ILA Executive Council and the ILA international research Committees on State Succession and Human Rights Law and Practice. He was formerly the Henry Fellow and a Visiting Scholar at Yale Law School, a Visiting Professor at the University of Texas School of Law, and a Research Fellow of the Leverhulme Trust (UK). He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Centre for International Courts and Tribunals, UCL, a Trustee and member of the Management Committee of the Advice on Individual Rights in Europe (AIRE) Centre, London, and Co-Chair of the International Organizations Interest Group at the American Society of International Law.
`'Dr. Wilde's review of the nature and purposes of international territorial administration is definitely a must read. Dr. Wilde has carried out extensive and well documented analysis of this mechanism demonstrating his deep knowledge of international territorial administration projects. The link made between international territorial administration projects and other institutions of international law which are now seen as illegitimate (e.g. colonialism) raises very interesting and important questions about the legitimacy of contemporary international territorial administration projects. This is definitely an element to be considered to ensure that this practice remains acceptable to the international community. ' Vincent Roobaert, NATO Legal Gazette `... an admirably thorough analysis of ITA, which takes account of all the major scholarship on the subject, together with a highly original though not entirely uncontentious interpretation of this intriguing historical phenomenonit endeavours-and succeeds-in shifting our perspective on a familiar topic. It is an important book that deserves wide readership.' Richard Caplan, University of Oxford, The British Yearbook of International Law, issue 79