Niko Pavlopoulos is an Associate Legal Officer at the International Court of Justice. He holds a PhD and an LLM in international law from University College London (UCL) and an LLB from the University of Southampton, with a year at KU Leuven. Before joining the Court, Niko was a Teaching Fellow at UCL and Durham University. Niko has also taught at the University of Surrey. He has also undertaken work for the British Institute of International and Comparative Law, the International Bar Association Human Rights Institute, Media Defence, and several academics and practitioners of international law.