Dr Thomas Grant, Author at Politeia

Dr Thomas Grant is an international lawyer and Fellow of the Lauterpracht Centre for International Law in Cambridge and Senior Research Fellow at Wolfson College. His books include Aggression against Ukraine: Territory, Responsibility, and International Law (2015) and Admission to the United Nations: Charter Article 4 and the Rise of Universal Organization (2009). For Politeia he was author of Avoiding the Trap – How to Move on from the Withdrawal Agreement (2019) and Leave as You Entered: Brexit in International Law (2019).

4 posts

‘Leave as You Entered: Brexit in International Law’

By Dr Thomas Grant
September 20, 2019

As the Prime Minister prepares to leave the EU, he should be guided in executing the democratic will by the constitutional arrangements of international law. Dr Thomas...

Putting Brexit off? Or being put off Brexit?

By Dr Thomas Grant
September 13, 2019

Delaying departure from March turned Brexit into a long process instead of the clear act of departure under and envisaged by international law, says Dr Thomas Grant commenting...

‘Avoiding the Trap – How to Move on from the Withdrawal Agreement’

By Dr Thomas Grant
June 13, 2019

Martin Howe QC, Sir Richard Aikens and Thomas Grant explain why the new PM should bypass the rejected Withdrawal Agreement and propose a Free Trade Agreement to...

Sovereignty Not Supplicancy: Brexit is a Matter of International, Not EU, Law

By Dr Thomas Grant
April 11, 2019

As the prime minister returns from ‘begging’ favours from the EU Council, Dr Thomas Grant, an international lawyer, warns against allowing the EU’s institutions or its Council to...

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