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 and the law of treaties. He has taught international law at the University of Helsinki, the University of Tartu, the Estonian National Defence College, and the Riga Graduate School of Law, as well as at a number of summer schools.
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 Mertensis. He is also member of the Board of Directors of the International Society of Military Law and the Law of War. Previously, he served on the boards of the Martens Society, the Estonian association for international law and international relations, and Ius Gentium—The Finnish Society of International Law.
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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