Dr James Devaney

  • Senior Lecturer (School of Law)

telephone: 6041
email: James.Devaney@glasgow.ac.uk

Room 306, Stair Building, 5-10 The Square, Glasgow, G12 8QQ

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ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-7226-6380

Biography

Dr James Gerard Devaney is Senior Lecturer in Law. He has studied law at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy (PhD 2015, LLM 2012), the University of Glasgow (LLM (distinction) 2010) and the University of Strathclyde (LL.B (Hons) 2009).

He has held fellowships from Re: constitution and the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and taught in a visiting capacity at the University of Sydney, Australia and the University of Kobe, Japan. 

He is also a qualified lawyer, being a member of the Bar of the State of New York, and has advised states in proceedings before the International Court of Justice. 

His roles at the University include PGT Admissions Officer, Co-Convenor of the Research Group on International Law and Security, and Programme Convenor of the LLM in International Law. He is also a member of the Senate Appeals Committee.

Outside the University, he is an elected member of the Co-ordinating Committee of the European Society of International Law Interest Group on International Courts and Tribunals.

 

 

Research interests

Public international law in general. In particular: international courts and tribunals, international legal reasoning, international dispute settlement, statehood and succession, international investment law.

Publications

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Number of items: 39.

2024

Devaney, J. (2024) Making sense of transcendental nonsense: a functional reframing of the law of state succession. Nordic Journal of International Law, 94(2), (Accepted for Publication)

Devaney, J. G. (2024) Evidence, fact-finding and experts. In: Gomula, J., Wittich, S. and Stemeseder, M. (eds.) Research Handbook on International Procedural Law. Series: Research Handbooks in International Law. Edward Elgar, pp. 395-409. ISBN 9781788970785 (doi: 10.4337/9781788970792.00032)

Devaney, J. G. (2024) Leaning from the steep slope: On coherence in response to Professor Jean d’Aspremont. Leiden Journal of International Law, 37(1), pp. 199-205. (doi: 10.1017/S0922156523000511)

Devaney, J. and Tams, C. (2024) Succession in respect of cession, unification and separation of States. In: Kulick, A. and Waibel, M. (eds.) General International Law in International Investment Law: A Commentary. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 428-442. ISBN 9780192849922

2023

Devaney, J. G. (2023) A coherence framework for fact-finding before the International Court of Justice. Leiden Journal of International Law, (doi: 10.1017/S0922156523000286) (Early Online Publication)

Devaney, J. G. (2023) The role of science and expert evidence in the ICJ’s Silala judgment: How Bolivia’s incoherent claims ran up against reality. Questions of International Law, 98, pp. 5-19.

Devaney, J. (2023) On the contribution of investment arbitration to issues of evidence and procedure before other international courts and tribunals. In: Tams, C. J., Schill, S. W. and Hofmann, R. (eds.) International Investment Law and General International Law: Radiating Effects? Series: Frankfurt investment and economic law series. Edward Elgar, pp. 343-367. ISBN 9781800884052 (doi: 10.4337/9781800884069.00020)

2022

Devaney, J. G. (2022) The role of precedent in the jurisprudence of the International Court of Justice: a constructive interpretation. Leiden Journal of International Law, 35(3), pp. 641-659. (doi: 10.1017/S092215652200022X)

Devaney, J. G. (2022) Introduction to the symposium on incidental jurisdiction. AJIL Unbound, 116, pp. 160-163. (doi: 10.1017/aju.2022.25)

Devaney, J. G. (2022) The law of state succession: regulating the aftermath. In: Vidmar, J., McGibbon, S. and Raible, L. (eds.) Research Handbook on Secession. Series: Research handbooks in international law series. Edward Elgar, pp. 33-347. ISBN 9781788971744 (hardback); 9781788971751 (eISSN) (doi: 10.4337/9781788971751.00033)

2021

Devaney, J. G. and Tams, C. J. (2021) In re Arbitration between the Italian Republic and the Republic of India concerning the “Enrica Lexie” incident. American Journal of International Law, 115(3), pp. 513-519. (doi: 10.1017/ajil.2021.25)

Devaney, J. G. (2021) Reapprasing the role of experts in recent cases before the International Court of Justice. German Yearbook of International Law, 62, pp. 337-370.

Geiss, R., Melzer, N., Devaney, J. and Methymaki, E. (Eds.) (2021) The Oxford Handbook of the International Law of Global Security. Series: Oxford handbooks. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198827276

2020

Devaney, J. (2020) An independent panel for the scrutiny of investment arbitrators: an idea whose time has come? Law and Practice of International Courts and Tribunals, 18(3), pp. 369-388. (doi: 10.1163/15718034-12341409)

Zimmermann, A. and Devaney, J. (2020) International courts and tribunals, intervention in proceedings. In: Wolfrum, R. (ed.) Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law. Oxford University Press: New York. (In Press)

Zimmermann, A. and Devaney, J. (2020) State succession in matters other than treaties. In: Wolfrum, R. (ed.) Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law. Oxford University Press: New York. (In Press)

Zimmermann, A. and Devaney, J. (2020) State succession in treaties. In: Wolfrum, R. (ed.) Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law. Oxford University Press: New York. (In Press)

2019

Devaney, J. G. (2019) Selecting Investment Arbitrators: Reconciling Party Autonomy and the International Rule of Law. Working Paper. KFG International Law, Berlin.

Devaney, J. (2019) Evidence (ICJ). In: Max Planck Encylopedia of International Procedural Law. Oxford University Press.

Tams, C. and Devaney, J. (2019) Commentaries to articles 49 and 50. In: Zimmerman, A. and Tams, C. J. (eds.) The Statute of the International Court of Justice: A Commentary. Series: Oxford commentaries on international law. Oxford University Press: Oxford. ISBN 9780198814894

2018

Devaney, J. G. (2018) Katharina Diel-Gligor, Towards Consistency in International Investment Jurisprudence: A Preliminary Ruling System for ICSID Arbitration. European Journal of International Law, 29(4), pp. 1447-1452. (doi: 10.1093/ejil/chy078)[Book Review]

2017

Geiß, R. and Devaney, J. (2017) Zealots, victims and captives: maintaining adequate protection of human shields in contemporary international humanitarian law. In: Dinstein, Y. and Lahav, J. (eds.) Israel Yearbook of Human Rights. Series: Israel Yearbook on Human Rights, 47. Brill, pp. 11-33. ISBN 9789004341944 (doi: 10.1163/9789004341951_003)

Devaney, J. (2017) International Courts and Tribunals and Factually Complex Cases: Reaching for the Impossible? Sixth Annual Junior Faculty Forum for International Law, Nottingham, UK, 8-10 May 2017. (Unpublished)

Tams, C. J. and Devaney, J. (2017) Commentary to article 263. In: Proelss, A. (ed.) United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea: a commentary. Beck/Hart/Nomos. ISBN 9783406603242

Tams, C. J. and Devaney, J. (2017) Commentary to article 304. In: Proelss, A. (ed.) United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea: a commentary. Beck/Hart/Nomos. ISBN 9783406603242

2016

Devaney, J. G. (2016) Fact-finding before the International Court of Justice. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781107142213 (doi: 10.1017/CBO9781316498972)

2015

Devaney, J. (2015) Evidentiary fairness and experts in international tribunals. In: Sarvarian, A., Fontanelli, F., Baker, R. and Tzevelekos, V. (eds.) Procedural Fairness in International Courts. British Institute of International and Comparative Law: London, pp. 189-204. ISBN 9781905221608

Devaney, J.G. (2015) International Law for Commons Goods, Lenzerini, F. & Vrdoljak, A.F. Italian Yearbook of International Law, 24(1), pp. 591-597. (doi: 10.1163/22116133-90000099)[Book Review]

Tams, C.J. and Devaney, J.G. (2015) Jus ad bellum: crossing borders to wage war against individuals. In: Barela, S.J. (ed.) Legitimacy and Drones. Series: Emerging technologies, ethics and international affairs. Ashbate: Surrey. ISBN 9781472446879

2014

Devaney, J. G. (2014) Morten Bergsmo (ed.). Quality Control in Fact-Finding. European Journal of International Law, 25(1), pp. 355-359. (doi: 10.1093/ejil/chu008)[Book Review]

Tams, C.J. and Devaney, J. (2014) Article 263 - responsibility and liability (IV). In: Proelß, A. (ed.) United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. Brill: Leiden, pp. 632-642. ISBN 9789004249639 (doi: 10.1163/ej.LAOS_9780792307648_632-642)

Tams, C.J. and Devaney, J. (2014) Article 304 - responsibility and liability for damage (V). In: Proelß, A. (ed.) United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. Brill: Leiden, pp. 163-164. ISBN 9789004249639 (doi: 10.1163/ej.LAOS_9789024737192_163-164)

Zimmermann, A. and Devaney, J.G. (2014) Succession to treaties and the inherent limits of international law. In: Tams, C.J. (ed.) Research Handbook on the Law of Treaties’. Series: Research handbooks in international law. Cheltenham. ISBN 9780857934772

2013

Devaney, J. (2013) Article 28 - Signature. In: O'Keefe, R., Tams, C. J. and Tzanakopoulos, A. (eds.) The United Nations Convention on Jurisdictional Immunities of States and Their Property: A Commentary. Series: Oxford commentaries on international law. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 395-398. ISBN 9780199601837

Devaney, J. (2013) Article 29 - Ratification, acceptance, approval or accession. In: O'Keefe, R., Tams, C. J. and Tzanakopoulos, A. (eds.) The United Nations Convention on Jurisdictional Immunities of States and Their Property: A Commentary. Series: Oxford commentaries on international law. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 399-405. ISBN 9780199601837

Devaney, J. G. (2013) Killing Two Birds with One Stone: Can Increased use of Article 34(2) of the ICJ Statute Improve the Legitimacy of UN Commissions of Inquiry & the Court’s Fact-Finding Procedure? Working Paper. Sant’Anna Legal Studies.

Devaney, J. G. (2013) Part VI: final clauses, Article 28. In: O'Keefe, R., Tams, C. and Tzanakopoulos, A. (eds.) The United Nations Convention on Jurisdictional Immunities of States and Their Property: A Commentary. Series: Oxford Commentaries on International Law. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 395-398. ISBN 9780199601837

Devaney, J. G. (2013) Part VI: final clauses, Article 29. In: O'Keefe, R., Tams, C. and Tzanakopoulos, A. (eds.) The United Nations Convention on Jurisdictional Immunities of States and Their Property: A Commentary. Series: Oxford Commentaries on International Law. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 399-405. ISBN 9780199601837

2012

Tams, C.J. and Devaney, J. (2012) Applying necessity and proportionality to anti-terrorist self-defence. Israel Law Review, 45(1), pp. 91-106.

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Articles

Devaney, J. (2024) Making sense of transcendental nonsense: a functional reframing of the law of state succession. Nordic Journal of International Law, 94(2), (Accepted for Publication)

Devaney, J. G. (2024) Leaning from the steep slope: On coherence in response to Professor Jean d’Aspremont. Leiden Journal of International Law, 37(1), pp. 199-205. (doi: 10.1017/S0922156523000511)

Devaney, J. G. (2023) A coherence framework for fact-finding before the International Court of Justice. Leiden Journal of International Law, (doi: 10.1017/S0922156523000286) (Early Online Publication)

Devaney, J. G. (2023) The role of science and expert evidence in the ICJ’s Silala judgment: How Bolivia’s incoherent claims ran up against reality. Questions of International Law, 98, pp. 5-19.

Devaney, J. G. (2022) The role of precedent in the jurisprudence of the International Court of Justice: a constructive interpretation. Leiden Journal of International Law, 35(3), pp. 641-659. (doi: 10.1017/S092215652200022X)

Devaney, J. G. (2022) Introduction to the symposium on incidental jurisdiction. AJIL Unbound, 116, pp. 160-163. (doi: 10.1017/aju.2022.25)

Devaney, J. G. and Tams, C. J. (2021) In re Arbitration between the Italian Republic and the Republic of India concerning the “Enrica Lexie” incident. American Journal of International Law, 115(3), pp. 513-519. (doi: 10.1017/ajil.2021.25)

Devaney, J. G. (2021) Reapprasing the role of experts in recent cases before the International Court of Justice. German Yearbook of International Law, 62, pp. 337-370.

Devaney, J. (2020) An independent panel for the scrutiny of investment arbitrators: an idea whose time has come? Law and Practice of International Courts and Tribunals, 18(3), pp. 369-388. (doi: 10.1163/15718034-12341409)

Tams, C.J. and Devaney, J. (2012) Applying necessity and proportionality to anti-terrorist self-defence. Israel Law Review, 45(1), pp. 91-106.

Books

Devaney, J. G. (2016) Fact-finding before the International Court of Justice. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781107142213 (doi: 10.1017/CBO9781316498972)

Book Sections

Devaney, J. G. (2024) Evidence, fact-finding and experts. In: Gomula, J., Wittich, S. and Stemeseder, M. (eds.) Research Handbook on International Procedural Law. Series: Research Handbooks in International Law. Edward Elgar, pp. 395-409. ISBN 9781788970785 (doi: 10.4337/9781788970792.00032)

Devaney, J. and Tams, C. (2024) Succession in respect of cession, unification and separation of States. In: Kulick, A. and Waibel, M. (eds.) General International Law in International Investment Law: A Commentary. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 428-442. ISBN 9780192849922

Devaney, J. (2023) On the contribution of investment arbitration to issues of evidence and procedure before other international courts and tribunals. In: Tams, C. J., Schill, S. W. and Hofmann, R. (eds.) International Investment Law and General International Law: Radiating Effects? Series: Frankfurt investment and economic law series. Edward Elgar, pp. 343-367. ISBN 9781800884052 (doi: 10.4337/9781800884069.00020)

Devaney, J. G. (2022) The law of state succession: regulating the aftermath. In: Vidmar, J., McGibbon, S. and Raible, L. (eds.) Research Handbook on Secession. Series: Research handbooks in international law series. Edward Elgar, pp. 33-347. ISBN 9781788971744 (hardback); 9781788971751 (eISSN) (doi: 10.4337/9781788971751.00033)

Zimmermann, A. and Devaney, J. (2020) International courts and tribunals, intervention in proceedings. In: Wolfrum, R. (ed.) Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law. Oxford University Press: New York. (In Press)

Zimmermann, A. and Devaney, J. (2020) State succession in matters other than treaties. In: Wolfrum, R. (ed.) Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law. Oxford University Press: New York. (In Press)

Zimmermann, A. and Devaney, J. (2020) State succession in treaties. In: Wolfrum, R. (ed.) Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law. Oxford University Press: New York. (In Press)

Devaney, J. (2019) Evidence (ICJ). In: Max Planck Encylopedia of International Procedural Law. Oxford University Press.

Tams, C. and Devaney, J. (2019) Commentaries to articles 49 and 50. In: Zimmerman, A. and Tams, C. J. (eds.) The Statute of the International Court of Justice: A Commentary. Series: Oxford commentaries on international law. Oxford University Press: Oxford. ISBN 9780198814894

Geiß, R. and Devaney, J. (2017) Zealots, victims and captives: maintaining adequate protection of human shields in contemporary international humanitarian law. In: Dinstein, Y. and Lahav, J. (eds.) Israel Yearbook of Human Rights. Series: Israel Yearbook on Human Rights, 47. Brill, pp. 11-33. ISBN 9789004341944 (doi: 10.1163/9789004341951_003)

Tams, C. J. and Devaney, J. (2017) Commentary to article 263. In: Proelss, A. (ed.) United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea: a commentary. Beck/Hart/Nomos. ISBN 9783406603242

Tams, C. J. and Devaney, J. (2017) Commentary to article 304. In: Proelss, A. (ed.) United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea: a commentary. Beck/Hart/Nomos. ISBN 9783406603242

Devaney, J. (2015) Evidentiary fairness and experts in international tribunals. In: Sarvarian, A., Fontanelli, F., Baker, R. and Tzevelekos, V. (eds.) Procedural Fairness in International Courts. British Institute of International and Comparative Law: London, pp. 189-204. ISBN 9781905221608

Tams, C.J. and Devaney, J.G. (2015) Jus ad bellum: crossing borders to wage war against individuals. In: Barela, S.J. (ed.) Legitimacy and Drones. Series: Emerging technologies, ethics and international affairs. Ashbate: Surrey. ISBN 9781472446879

Tams, C.J. and Devaney, J. (2014) Article 263 - responsibility and liability (IV). In: Proelß, A. (ed.) United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. Brill: Leiden, pp. 632-642. ISBN 9789004249639 (doi: 10.1163/ej.LAOS_9780792307648_632-642)

Tams, C.J. and Devaney, J. (2014) Article 304 - responsibility and liability for damage (V). In: Proelß, A. (ed.) United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. Brill: Leiden, pp. 163-164. ISBN 9789004249639 (doi: 10.1163/ej.LAOS_9789024737192_163-164)

Zimmermann, A. and Devaney, J.G. (2014) Succession to treaties and the inherent limits of international law. In: Tams, C.J. (ed.) Research Handbook on the Law of Treaties’. Series: Research handbooks in international law. Cheltenham. ISBN 9780857934772

Devaney, J. (2013) Article 28 - Signature. In: O'Keefe, R., Tams, C. J. and Tzanakopoulos, A. (eds.) The United Nations Convention on Jurisdictional Immunities of States and Their Property: A Commentary. Series: Oxford commentaries on international law. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 395-398. ISBN 9780199601837

Devaney, J. (2013) Article 29 - Ratification, acceptance, approval or accession. In: O'Keefe, R., Tams, C. J. and Tzanakopoulos, A. (eds.) The United Nations Convention on Jurisdictional Immunities of States and Their Property: A Commentary. Series: Oxford commentaries on international law. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 399-405. ISBN 9780199601837

Devaney, J. G. (2013) Part VI: final clauses, Article 28. In: O'Keefe, R., Tams, C. and Tzanakopoulos, A. (eds.) The United Nations Convention on Jurisdictional Immunities of States and Their Property: A Commentary. Series: Oxford Commentaries on International Law. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 395-398. ISBN 9780199601837

Devaney, J. G. (2013) Part VI: final clauses, Article 29. In: O'Keefe, R., Tams, C. and Tzanakopoulos, A. (eds.) The United Nations Convention on Jurisdictional Immunities of States and Their Property: A Commentary. Series: Oxford Commentaries on International Law. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 399-405. ISBN 9780199601837

Book Reviews

Devaney, J. G. (2018) Katharina Diel-Gligor, Towards Consistency in International Investment Jurisprudence: A Preliminary Ruling System for ICSID Arbitration. European Journal of International Law, 29(4), pp. 1447-1452. (doi: 10.1093/ejil/chy078)[Book Review]

Devaney, J.G. (2015) International Law for Commons Goods, Lenzerini, F. & Vrdoljak, A.F. Italian Yearbook of International Law, 24(1), pp. 591-597. (doi: 10.1163/22116133-90000099)[Book Review]

Devaney, J. G. (2014) Morten Bergsmo (ed.). Quality Control in Fact-Finding. European Journal of International Law, 25(1), pp. 355-359. (doi: 10.1093/ejil/chu008)[Book Review]

Edited Books

Geiss, R., Melzer, N., Devaney, J. and Methymaki, E. (Eds.) (2021) The Oxford Handbook of the International Law of Global Security. Series: Oxford handbooks. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198827276

Research Reports or Papers

Devaney, J. G. (2019) Selecting Investment Arbitrators: Reconciling Party Autonomy and the International Rule of Law. Working Paper. KFG International Law, Berlin.

Devaney, J. G. (2013) Killing Two Birds with One Stone: Can Increased use of Article 34(2) of the ICJ Statute Improve the Legitimacy of UN Commissions of Inquiry & the Court’s Fact-Finding Procedure? Working Paper. Sant’Anna Legal Studies.

Conference or Workshop Item

Devaney, J. (2017) International Courts and Tribunals and Factually Complex Cases: Reaching for the Impossible? Sixth Annual Junior Faculty Forum for International Law, Nottingham, UK, 8-10 May 2017. (Unpublished)

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Grants

  1. Re: constitution, Stiftung Mercator, fellow, 'EU Sanctions Against Russia and the International Rule of Law', (2023-2024), €15,000.
  2. Royal Society of Edinburgh, Research Fellowship, ’The Law of State Succession: Imagining a More Useful Future for International Law’, (2022), £9,000.
  3. DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft), German Research Foundation Fellowship, KFG Berlin-Potsdam Research Group, ‘International Law – Rise or Decline?’, Humboldt University, Berlin (2019), €17,500.
  4. University of Glasgow Principal’s Early Career Mobility Scheme, Grant, University of Sydney, (2018), £4,000.
  5. Royal Society of Edinburgh Small Research Grant, ‘Judging International Judges: A Comparative Examination of the Disqualification of Arbitrators in International Investment Law', (2017), £5,000.

 

Supervision

Current PhD students

  1. Stühlinger, Susi - 'Causation in Climate Change Litigation.'
  2. Hassan, Khaled,  'The Parameters of Arbitrators’ Civil Liability: A Proposal for Limited Liability/Qualified Immunity’
  3. Hu, Ranjuexiao, 'The Jurisdiction of Arbitral Tribunals in International Investment Disputes Involving Corruption.'
  • Hu, Ranjuexiao
    The Jurisdiction of Arbitral Tribunal in International Investment Disputes Involving Corruption

PhDs supervised to completion:

  1. Tien, Chin-Chia - 'Regulating IUU Fishing Through Flag States: Development of State Responsibility in the Law of the Sea'.
  2. Schechinger, Jessica - 'Private (Armed) Security Actors in the Contemporary Fight against Maritime Piracy: Issues of International Responsibility'
  3. Cho, Hoon - 'Judges Make UNCLOS Part XV'
  4. Sutthent, Phakanadh - 'The use of science in the law-making and governance of international trade: sanitary and phytosanitary regulation'
  5. Guichardaz, Héloïse - 'Protection in the name of efficiency: can the UN's immunities continue to be justified by functional necessity?'

LLM by research supervised to completion:

  1. Cathro, Scott - 'The Role of Private Rights in Maritime Boundary Delimitation: A Proposal for Procedural Reform'



Teaching

Course convenor: International Courts and Tribunals (LLM) and International Investment Law (LLM).


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