Legal Candidacy: International Law Experience and Legal Rigor

I'm really excited about your candidacy.

Tell me what you think you'd bring to the role.

Well, the main thing I think I'd bring is legal rigor, a commitment to being faithful to the application of the law, thinking very seriously about, um, solutions to legal problems, but also diversity of thought.

It's been a privilege to have worked with states from all across the globe.

Yeah, yeah. And I think that actually leads to an openness of mind, and it also leads to the ability to be able to see the perspectives of states from all across the world.

I've been an academic and a practitioner of international law all of my career, and I think that combination of technical expertise in international law, but also a sense of how it's applied in practice, is really useful.

Not so much an elevator pitch as a Lancaster House stairs pitch. And it was brilliant.

Thank you very much. Thank you. Dako, you're a fantastic candidate- Thank you ... and I'm supporting you all the way.