Prof. Dr. Ignacio DE LA RASILLA holds the Han Depei Chair in International Law and he is One Thousand Talents Plan Distinguished Professor at the Wuhan University School of Law - Institute of International Law and a Chief Expert of the Wuhan University Academy of International Law and Global governance, (National Top Think Tank) in China. He is also the co-editor-in-chief of the Chinese Journal of Transnational Law (SAGE, 2023).

He was educated in Spain (LL.B., 5 years – qualifying law degree exempted from bar examination, University Complutense of Madrid); Switzerland (MA and PhD, The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva), United States of America (LLM, Harvard Law School; Fellow in Global Governance, Law and Social Thought, Brown University) and Northern-Italy (Post-Doctoral Max Weber Fellow in Law, European University Institute, Florence).

Prof. Dr. DE LA RASILLA is the author of two research monographs in international law published by Cambridge University Press (2021, awarded the Han Depei Law Book Price in 2021) and Brill / Nijhoff (2017). He is the co-editor of five edited volumes published by Cambridge University Press (2019 and 2024, forth.), Oxford University Press (2025, forth.), Brill/Nijhoff (2017) and Thompson Reuters (2013). He is also the author of circa 80 peer-reviewed journal law articles and book chapters in international law subjects including in leading academic journals such as the European Journal of International Law (2) (SSCI); International Journal of Constitutional Law (SSCI); Leiden Journal of International Law (3) (SSCI); Journal of International Criminal Justice (SSCI); Law and History Review (SSCI); Journal of International Dispute Settlement (SSCI); ICSID Review – Journal of International Investment Law (SSCI); Human Rights Law Review (SSCI);  Chinese Journal of International Law (SSCI); The Legal History Review (SSCI); Asia Pacific Law Review (SSCI); Asian Journal of International Law (ESCI); Journal of the History of International Law (2) (ESCI);); International Criminal Law Review (ESCI); International Community Law Review (3) (ESCI); Nordic Journal of International Law; Transnational Legal Theory; Rechtsgeschichte–Legal History (Rg) and many others as well as several peer-review book chapters in specialized peer-reviewed edited collections published by Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Brill/Nijhoff etc. He has also edited three international law journal symposia (EJIL, 2020; AYBIL, 2012; GJIL, 2012) and has both translated and prologued several academic books on international law and relations from English into Spanish.

Prof. Dr. DE LA RASILLA has been awarded visiting  fellowship appointments at research centres in the United States of America (Harvard Law School’s European Law Centre, 2007; Institute of Global Law and Policy at Harvard Law School, 2010; Royal College Complutense at Harvard University, 2007 & 2011; The Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University, 2009-2010); The United Kingdom (The Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, Cambridge University, 2014); Germany (The Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg in 2015 and in 2023); The Max Planck Institute for European Legal History in Frankfurt, 2014); Switzerland (The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, 2016) Luxembourg (Max Planck Institute for European and International Procedural Law, 2017), France (Sciences Po, Paris – waived, 2012), Italy (The Global Campus of Human Rights in Venice – waived, 2020), Denmark (iCourts – waived, 2018) and Spain (Royal Institute of European Studies – University San Pablo CEU, 2023).  

He has held permanent or visiting teaching positions in American (Adjunct Prof., New York University, La Pietra, 2012) British (Assistant and, then, Associate Prof., Brunel University London, 2012-2018) French (Visiting Prof., Catholic University of Lille, 2010-2018) and Chinese (Visiting Prof., Wuhan University, 2017; AALCO-China, Teaching Program, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Beijing, 2019; Visiting Prof. East Central University of Law and Political Science, Shanghai 2023) universities teaching a variety of undergrad and graduate courses: Public Law (British Constitutional and Administrative Law); European Union Law; global governance; international adjudication and different areas of public international law including international criminal law and international human rights law.

Prof. DE LA RASILLA has been invited to present his research on international law at numerous universities across Europe, Asia and North-America in over 90 occasions. He is listed as a foreign arbitrator in the VI China Guangzhou Arbitration Commission (2021-2026), the Zhuhai Court of International Arbitration (2021) and the Xi’an Arbitration Commission (2022). He also serves on the Foreign Expert Advisory Committee of the Institute of International Dispute Prevention and Settlement (2019-2023) at the Beijing Institute of Technology jointly built with China Council for the Promotion of International Trade.

Prof. Dr DE LA RASILLA is a Spanish national and an EU citizen. He is proficient in Spanish (mother tongue), English, French and Italian and he is currently learning Mandarin. For more information and list of publications, please visit: www.ignaciodelarasilla.com