New Visiting Researcher at iCourts - Jolyon Ford
Jolyon Ford is a Professor of Law at the Australian National University (ANU) and Editor-in-Chief of the Australian Year Book of International Law. Author of Human Rights and Populism (2024), he co-leads a 2022-2027 Australian Research Council-funded project ‘Reconceiving Engagement with International Law and Institutions in an Era of Populism’; recent work from the project appears in the 2025 editions respectively of the Virginia Journal of International Law, Asian Journal of International Law, Melbourne International Law Journal, Cambridge International Law Journal, and Australian Journal of International Affairs.
Before re-joining academia in 2015 he had a varied career in an international organisation, an NGO, the private sector, and leading London think-tank Chatham House. From Zimbabwe, he holds degrees from the University of KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), Cambridge, and the ANU, from where his PhD was published as Regulating Business for Peace (CUP 2015). He was a Fulbright Fellow in 2021-2022 (University of California, Berkeley).
Jolyon Ford is visiting iCourts 7 - 28 April 2026.