Professor Martins Paparinskis is Professor of Public International Law at University College London. He is a generalist international lawyer with a variety of specialist interests. Professor Paparinskis is a member of the United Nations (UN) International Law Commission and the Special Rapporteur on compensation for the damage caused by internationally wrongful acts, and was the Chair of the Commission’s seventy-sixth session. He is also an associate of the Institute of International Law and a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, the Board of OSCE Court of Conciliation and Arbitration, and the UNECE Water Convention’s Implementation Committee, and has appeared before the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea and the International Court of Justice. Professor Paparinskis has published in leading journals including American Journal of International Law, British Year Book of International Law, Current Legal Problems, European Journal of International Law, Leiden Journal of International Law, Modern Law Review, and Rivista di Diritto Internazionale.