Russell Buchan is Professor of International Law at the University of Reading, United Kingdom. He was previously a fully-funded British Academy secondee to the United Kingdom’s Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office.
Professor Buchan has published widely in the field of public international law, including three monographs: International Law and the Construction of the Liberal Peace (Hart, 2013) (which won the American Society of International Law’s 2014 Francis Lieber prize for an ‘exceptional published work in the field of the law of armed conflict’), Cyber Espionage and International Law (Hart, 2018), and (with Nicholas Tsagourias), Regulating the Use of Force in International Law: Stability and Change (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2021).
He is also the co-editor of five edited collections. With Nicholas Tsagourias, he is editor of the Research Handbook on International Law and Cyberspace, which is published by Edward Elgar and currently in its second edition (first edition 2015, second edition 2021). With Asaf Lubin, he is editor of The Rights to Privacy and Data Protection in Times of Armed Conflict, which was published by the NATO CCDCOE in 2022. With Daniel Franchini and Nicholas Tsagourias, he is editor of The Changing Character of International Dispute Settlement: Challenges and Prospects (Cambridge University Press, 2023) and The Peaceful Settlement of Inter-State Cyber Disputes (Hart, 2024).
Professor Buchan has also authored or co-authored multiple articles for international relations journals (such as the Brown Journal of World Affairs), law journals (such as Legal Studies and the Israel Law Review), and international law journals (including the International and Comparative Law Quarterly, Cornell International Law Journal, International Review of the Red Cross, and International Law Studies).
Professor Buchan sits on the editorial boards of the Journal on the Use of Force and International Law and the International Community Law Review.
Professor Buchan has been actively engaged with the CCDCOE for several years. In addition to serving as an editor of The Rights to Privacy and Data Protection in Times of Armed Conflict, he was a peer reviewer for the Tallinn Manual 2.0 and currently reviews for the Cyber Law Toolkit. Since 2022, he has also been a core lecturer in the International Law of Cyber Operations Course.