James Cockayne

Senior Associate
cockayne@ipinst.org

James Cockayne is an international lawyer and policy analyst who has worked closely with governments, international organizations, civil society and industry on security, justice and human rights issues. He was recently named one of Australia’s 100 New Leaders and 10 Emerging Leaders in ‘Thinking’ by The Weekend Australian Magazine. His book Beyond Market Forces: Regulating the Global Security Industry will be published by IPI in July 2009.

James was a University Medallist in Government and Public Administration at the University of Sydney, a Hauser Scholar at New York University Law School, and a Mellon Fellow in Security and Humanitarian Action. He was appointed Principal Legal Officer in the Transnational Crime Unit of the Australian Attorney-General’s Department at age 25, and received an official commendation for his work on Afghanistan and Iraq. He has worked on war crimes trials in Tanzania and Sierra Leone, and in 2007-2008 he was Chair of the Editorial Committee of the Journal of International Criminal Justice.

As Senior Associate at IPI, James oversees research and policy development projects on the United Nations Security Council, private security, organized crime, peace and justice and other issues. He was a principal NGO adviser in the preparation of the Montreux Document on private military and security companies, agreed by 17 states in September 2008.

Educated in Sydney, Beijing, Oxford and New York, James has also worked in private legal practice in Sydney and Paris, advised governments in Canberra, and on multilateral affairs in New York. He has published widely in scholarly journals including Security Dialogue, Global Governance, International Review of the Red Cross, Journal of Human Rights, Journal of Conflict and Security Law. He has been an invited lecturer for the International Committee of the Red Cross, Columbia University, Fordham University, New York University, and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, and appeared as a commentator on national television and radio in the UK, US and Australia. 

Some of James’ publications are available for download at http://ssrn.com/author=652307. 

Selected Publications 

On the United Nations Security Council:

• James Cockayne and David Malone, “Iraq, 1990-1991 and 2002-2003,” in The Security Council and War, edited by Vaughan Lowe, Adam Roberts, Jennifer Welsh, and Dominik Zaum (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008), pp. 384-405.
• James Cockayne and Christoph Mikulaschek, “Transnational Security Challenges and the United Nations: Overcoming Sovereign Walls and Institutional Silos” (New York: International Peace Academy, February 2008).
• James Cockayne and David Malone, “Relations with the Security Council,” in Secretary or General? The UN Secretary-General in World Politics, edited by Simon Chesterman (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2007).
• James Cockayne and David Malone, “The UN Security Council: 10 Lessons from Iraq on Regulation and Accountability,” International Peacekeeping 2, no. 2, (Fall 2006): 1-24.

 

On organized crime:

• James Cockayne and Adam Lupel, eds., Special Issue on Peace Operations and Organized Crime of International Peacekeeping (forthcoming February 2009).
• James Cockayne and Daniel Pfister, “Peace Operations and Organised Crime,” GCSP Geneva Papers no. 2 (Geneva: GCSP, 2008).
• James Cockayne, “Transnational Organized Crime: Multilateral Responses to a Rising Threat,” Coping with Crisis Working Paper Series (New York: IPA, March 2007).

 

On private security:

• James Cockayne (Lead Author), “Beyond Market Forces: A Feasibility Study on Standards Implementation and Enforcement Frameworks for the Global Security Industry,” (New York: IPI, forthcoming 2009).
• James Cockayne, “The Montreux Document: Towards Effective Regulation of Private Military and Security Companies?” Journal of Conflict and Security Law (forthcoming 2009).
• James Cockayne, “The Global Reorganization of Legitimate Violence: Military Entrepreneurs and the Private Face of International Humanitarian Law,” International Review of the Red Cross 88, no. 863 (March 2007): 1-32.
• James Cockayne, “Commercial Security in Humanitarian and Post-Conflict Settings: An Exploratory Study,” (New York: IPA, March 2006).

 

On war crimes and international law:

• James Cockayne, “The Fraying Shoestring: Rethinking Hybrid War Crimes Tribunals,” Fordham International Law Journal 28, no. 3 (February 2005): 616-680.
• James Cockayne, “Hybrids or Mongrels? Internationalized War Crimes Tribunals as Unsuccessful Degradation Ceremonies,” Journal of Human Rights 4 (2005): 1-19.
• James Cockayne, “Islam and International Humanitarian Law: From a ‘Clash’ to a ‘Conversation’ of Civilizations,” International Review of the Red Cross, no. 847 (September 2002): 597-626.

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