Michael Wood is a member of the International Law Commission, and a Senior Fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge. He is a barrister at 20 Essex Street, London, where he practices in the field of public international law (including in cases before the International Court of Justice).
He was Legal Adviser to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office between 1999 and 2006.
He was Agent for the United Kingdom over many years before the International Court of Justice (I.C.J.), the European Commission and the European Court of Human Rights. His case before the I.C.J. included the Lockerbie case, the Legality of Use of Force cases (Yugoslavia v. NATO countries) the Legal Consequences of the Construction of the Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory case. He was a Counsel for Kosovo in the Accordance with International Law of the Unilateral Declaration of Independence in respect of Kosovo case. In addition to acting on behalf of the UK he represented the following countries before the I.C.J. and other International Tribunals: Ukraine, Belgium, India, Honduras, Myanmar, Peru, and Turkey.
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