Justina Uriburu is a general public international law scholar, with a special interest in international adjudication and the history and theory of international law. She is a Lecturer in International Law at the University of Manchester, which she joins after completing a Max Weber Fellowship at the European University Institute. She is also an Associate Editor at EJIL: Talk!, the blog of the European Journal of International Law.

Justina’s current writing projects challenge traditional assumptions, lenses, and histories of international adjudication. She is working on a book that presents a new history of international dispute settlement and its relationship to peace, with a focus on the Americas. Concurrently, she is developing a research project to examine the influence of law firms on states’ decisions regarding litigation venues and the framing of their legal claims.

Justina’s works have been published in leading journals, such as the American Journal of International Law, the Leiden Journal of International Law, and the London Review of International Law. She is the Co-Editor of the special issue ‘Bogotá at 75’, published in the Journal of the History of International Law, which explores critical junctures in American states’ creation of a regional order. She also writes shorter interventions on current developments in blogs and other platforms.

Justina was trained in Argentina, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Switzerland. After earning her degree in law at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, she pursued an LLM in International Law at University College London as a Chevening Scholar. She received her PhD in International Law summa cum laude at the Geneva Graduate Institute, where her thesis was awarded a special distinction by the members of the jury. During her time at the Geneva Graduate Institute, she worked as a Teaching Assistant at the LLM in International Law. She was also invited to join an SNF-funded project on the diversity of international courts and tribunals, where she wrote and researched on feminist approaches to international adjudication. She won a Gallatin Award, thanks to which she conducted archival research at Washington, DC.

Justina combines academic expertise with first-hand experience in international adjudication. She works as a consultant in international law and has assisted in cases before the International Court of Justice. Before academia, she worked in the public sector in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She began her career at the Office of Crimes against Humanity, advising federal prosecutors on international criminal law in the domestic prosecution of crimes against humanity committed during the last dictatorship in Argentina (1976–1983). She was later appointed Law Clerk to the Office of the Attorney General, where she drafted legal opinions on cases appealed before the Supreme Court of Justice of Argentina, focusing on public international law, international criminal law, and international human rights law.