Dr Patrick Capps,  Reader in Law at the University of Bristol, has been appointed Herbert Smith Visiting Fellow at University of Cambridge. 

Hersch Lauterpacht is, according to Judge Stephen Schwebel, 'widely and rightly regarded at the greatest international legal scholar of the twentieth century'. In a project supported by the University of Cambridge Herbert Smith Visiting Fellow Scheme, Patrick will work with Professor Sir Elihu Lauterpacht on Hersch Lauterpacht's unpublished lectures delivered at the London School of Economics in the 1920s and 1930s. This project affords these scholars a unique opportunity to consider some of the earliest formulations of Lauterpacht's most important ideas about the international legal order.

Although he has written widely on the sociology of law and international legal doctrine, Pat's research focuses on the philosophy and history of international law. His specific interests are Kantian and Neo-Kantian approaches to the study of international law. He has recently published a monograph entitled Human Dignity and the Foundations of International Law (Hart, 2010) in this area.