Today (26 September), international law scholar and university leader Professor Stephen Toope was nominated as the 346th Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge.

Professor Toope is Director of the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs and formerly served as President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of British Columbia. He is a scholar specialising in human rights, international dispute resolution, international environmental law, the use of force, and international legal theory with degrees in common law (LLB) and civil law (BCL) with honours from McGill University (1983). Professor Toope is also an alumnus of Trinity College Cambridge, where he completed his PhD in 1987 after graduating from Harvard with a degree (AB) in history and literature. He has published articles and books on change in international law and the origins of international obligation in international society, and represented Western Europe and North America on the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances from 2002-2007.

Read more from the the Cambridge offical announcement.