Michael Mulligan has taught at universities in the UK and Middle East for over ten years. Prior to this he worked in a variety of legal roles.
Michael teaches criminal law, public law, property law, and tort law on the International Foundation Programme. Previously, he taught international law to undergraduate and master’s degree students and supervised over a dozen undergraduate dissertations. In 2018, he mentored a team that entered the Philip Jessup International Law Moot and subsequently acted as a judge in that competition.
Research and Publications
His research interests are mainly in the areas of international and constitutional law. Recently, he has published on issues such as Brexit, the evolution of sovereignty, and disputes over resources.
Book
With Moritz Mihatsch, Shifting Sovereignties; A Global History of an Impractical Concept (Walter De Gruyter, 2025)
Chapters
International Law and the British Mandate: the debate about self-determination in the Middle East after 1919’ in Liam Anderson, Marianna Charountaki & James Moore (eds) A century of State-Making in Iraq: Baghdad, Kurdistan, and the evolution of the national constitution (Palgrave MacMillan, 2024).
With Moritz Mihatsch, ‘Sovereignty in Africa & the Spectre of Wilson’ in Marie-Josée Lavallée et al (eds), Western Hegemonies and their Contestations (Vernon Press, 2022), pp.35-62.
‘The Challenges to the UK Constitution since 1979 and Brexit’ in Sarah McKibbin et al (eds) The Impact of Law’s History; What’s Past is Prologue (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022), pp.49-63.
‘The East India Company: Non – State Actor as Treaty Maker’, in James Summers & Alex Gough (eds) Non-State Actors and International Obligations: Creation, Evolution and Enforcement (Martinus Nijhoff, 2018), pp.39-59.
Articles
With Menna Khaled, ‘The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam and the Nile: International legal and political considerations’, Journal of International Law & Comity (2021), Vol. 2, No. 1, pp.78-97.
With Moritz Mihatsch, ‘Global Capital and the Longue Durée of Extraterritoriality’, Culture, Theory & Critique (2021) Vol. 62, No. 1, pp.7-23.
‘The Re-emergence of Conquest: International law and the Legitimate Use of Force’, Liverpool Law Review (2020) Vol. 41, No. 3, pp.293-313.
‘The Status of Egypt after the 1840 Convention of London’, Jus Gentium: A Journal of International Legal History (2018) Vol. 3, No. 1, pp.215-243.
‘Piracy and Empire: The Campaigns against Piracy, the development of International Law and the British Imperial mission’, Journal of the History of International Law (2017) Vol. 19, No. 1, pp.70-92.
‘Conceptualising an Internal Conflict; ISIS and International Law’, International Journal of Contemporary Iraqi Studies (2016) Vol. 10, Nos. 1 & 2, pp.73-88.
‘Nigeria, the British Presence in West Africa and International Law in the 19th Century’, Journal of the History of International Law (2009) Vol.11, No.2, pp.273-301
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