Masters of the Bench

Legal Adviser to the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, Daniel was educated at Bristol and Cambridge before being Called to the Bar in 1988.  He took Silk in 2003.  He is also the Director of the Lauterpacht Research Centre for International Law.  From 1992 to 1998, he lectured in international law at the LSE.  As a barrister, he has advised and acted in matters across the breadth of international law including humanitarian law, refugee law, state and diplomatic immunity, economic sanctions, expropriation of property, territorial disputes and boundary delimitation and environmental law.  Daniel gave one of the Middle Temple King James lectures in 2008.