Professor Joshua Castellino

Joshua Castellino is Executive Dean of the College of Arts, Law & Social Sciences, and Professor of International & Comparative Law at Brunel University London. He serves as Visiting Professor at Oxford University (UK), the College of Europe (Poland) and Macquarie University (Australia) and sits on the governing boards of several organisations that work in international human rights law including among them, the European Centre for Constitutional & Human Rights (Germany), the Institute for Stateless & Inclusion (Netherlands), Survival International & Forensic Architecture (both UK). He is Chair of Privacy International (UK) and Deputy Chair of the Right Livelihood Foundation (Sweden).

Joshua worked as a journalist in Mumbai, with the Indian Express Group, was awarded a Chevening Scholarship to pursue an MA in International Law & Politics in 1995, and completed his PhD in International Law in 1998. He has authored and edited ten books on international law and human rights law, colonial crime, on self-determination, title to territory and indigenous peoples’ rights, besides several articles on a range of these and other legal sub-topics. His latest book is entitled International Law & the Reconceptualization of Territorial Boundaries: In Pursuit of Perpetual Peace (Routledge, 2025).

Joshua led Minority Rights Group International (UK) from 2018-2024, co-designing funded programmatic interventions with over 300 partner organisations based in over sixty countries, regularly engaging with multilateral organisations at international (UN) and regional (EU, OSCE, ASEAN & AU) levels. He was part of the EU-China Experts & Diplomatic Dialogue and Lawyers for the New Millennium: Support for the Arab Law Union. He regularly engages with Law Societies and NGOs in Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America, on issues of human rights advocacy and public international law and was appointed Chair, by the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights of the 8th Forum on Minority Issues, an inter-governmental dialogue with civil society under the auspices of the United Nations Human Rights Council.