Tim Potier

Tim Potier is a Senior Fellow (non-residential) at the Center for International Law and Governance at Fletcher, the Graduate School of Global Affairs, Tufts University.

Between 2017 and 2022, Tim Potier was a (full) Professor in the Department of International Law at the prestigious Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO-University). He resigned his position following the commencement of the recent war in Ukraine. Previously, he had worked in the eastern Mediterranean. A British national, he was Head of the School of Law at UCLan Cyprus, the branch campus of the University of Central Lancashire in the UK, for four years following the establishment of the University in 2012. He began his academic career, in Cyprus, at the University of Nicosia, where he twice served as Head of the Law Department. A former member of Cambridge University (UK), he has served as a Visiting Fellow at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law and, earlier in his career, as a Visiting Fellow at its (former) Centre of International Studies. During the Easter Term of the academic year 2021-22 he was Visiting Professor at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, his former college. He remains (since 2019) Senior Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London.

Professor Potier wrote his PhD on the conflicts in the south Caucasus (Nagorno-Karabakh, Abkhazia and South Ossetia) from an international law perspective. Principally known for his work in the field of international law, he has continued to write on conflict settlement. He is currently preparing (for Brill) a second revised edition of his earlier monograph “Conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh, Abkhazia and South Ossetia: A Legal Appraisal”. His other academic interests include Jurisprudence and Roman Law. He has recently completed a book titled “International Law at a Crossroads” (having particular emphasis on the rule of law from a municipal and international legal perspective). It is anticipated that this monograph will be published by Edinburgh University Press. He has also been working on a book on Roman Succession Law for the past five years.

He is a member of the American Society of International Law, European Society of International Law and the British Institute of International and Comparative Law. He was the English language Editor of the Moscow Journal of International Law (2017-22). Tim Potier continues to teach (for a range of universities) general and specialist courses in International Law. He also teaches courses on Jurisprudence, Roman Law, the Common Law and the Law of Equity, Property Law, the Law of Trusts and Business Law.