Professor Robert McCorquodale is a Professor of International Law and Human Rights at the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom, as well as a barrister at Brick Court Chambers, London, and Founder and Principal of Inclusive Law, a consultancy on business and human rights issues. He is also an honorary professor at ANU.  He has given advice to governments and peoples on a range of self-determination matters across most regions, from Lithuania to South Africa and represented Vanuatu before the International Court of Justice in the Chagos Archipelago Proceedings. He has written widely on the right to self-determination and on other public international law and human rights issues.