Dr Rain Liivoja
Research Fellow
(APCML & APCMCOE)
BA (Law) (Tartu), LLM, LLic, LLD (Helsinki)
Languages spoken: English, Estonian, Finnish, German (passive)
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Rain Liivoja is a Research Fellow at Melbourne Law School and Project Director for the Law of Armed Conflict at the Asia Pacific Centre for Military Law. He is also an Affiliated Research Fellow of the Erik Castrén Institute of International Law and Human Rights, University of Helsinki, where he was based before joining Melbourne Law School. Rain has published on the law of armed conflict, international criminal law, the law of state jurisdiction, the law of treaties and the regulation of private military contractors. He has taught international law at the Universities of Melbourne, Helsinki and Tartu, as well as the Estonian National Defence College and the Riga Graduate School of Law. Rain is the book review of editor of the Finnish Yeabrook of International Law, and a member of the editorial boards of the Proceedings of the Estonian National Defence College, the Helsinki Review of Global Governance and the Acta Societatis Martensis. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the International Society of Military Law and the Law of War. Previously, he has served on the boards of the Estonian and Finnish societies of international law (respectively the Martens Society and the Ius Gentium Association). Rain holds an undergraduate degree in law from the University of Tartu and masters, licentiate and doctoral degrees in public international law from the University of Helsinki. |
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