Vladyslav Lanovoy is an Associate Professor of Public International Law at Université Laval. He is also a Co-Chair of the International Courts and Tribunals Interest Group of the American Society of International Law, an Associate Editor of the Canadian Yearbook of International Law, and a Book Review Editor of the Law & Practice of International Courts and Tribunals. His research focuses primarily on international courts and tribunals, sources and codification of international law, the responsibility of States and international organizations, as well as climate change and reparations.
Before joining Université Laval, Vladyslav served as an Associate Legal Officer at the International Court of Justice (2017-2021) and an Assistant Legal Counsel at the Permanent Court of Arbitration (2014). He also worked at the international arbitration group of one of the leading international law firms in London and Paris. Vladyslav had previously consulted for the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the UN Environment Programme in Geneva. More recently, he has acted as counsel in contentious and advisory proceedings before the International Court of Justice, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea and in an ad hoc arbitration. He is admitted to practice law as a solicitor in England and Wales.
Vladyslav holds a PhD in International Law (summa cum laude avec félicitations du jury) from the Geneva Graduate Institute and is the author of Complicity and its Limits in the Law of International Responsibility (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2016), which was awarded the 2017 Paul Guggenheim Prize. The prize is awarded every two years to “a young scholar who has written a first monograph of outstanding quality and who is likely to make a substantial contribution to the theory of international law”. His research has appeared in leading peer-review journals, including the European Journal of International Law, the British Yearbook of International Law, and the Leiden Journal of International Law. He has held visiting teaching positions at the Université Catholique de Lille, Queen Mary University of London, and the Université de Bordeaux. He was the Director of Studies in public international law (English-speaking section) at The Hague Academy of International Law in summer 2025.
Born in Lviv, Ukraine, Vladyslav is fluent in French and English, as well as Ukrainian, Portuguese, Russian, Italian, German and Spanish.