# Legal Candidacy: International Law Experience and Legal Rigor

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2099893821182001420
- Source account: [@FCDOGovUK](https://x.com/FCDOGovUK)
- Source language: English
- Duration: 0:58
- Published: 2026-09-16
- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/0A8VIuNLpXBp/en/legal-candidacy-international-law-experience-and-legal-rigor

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/0A8VIuNLpXBp/en/legal-candidacy-international-law-experience-and-legal-rigor) I'm really excited about your candidacy.

[0:02](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/0A8VIuNLpXBp/en/legal-candidacy-international-law-experience-and-legal-rigor?t=2) Tell me what you think you'd bring to the role.

[0:05](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/0A8VIuNLpXBp/en/legal-candidacy-international-law-experience-and-legal-rigor?t=5) 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.

[0:19](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/0A8VIuNLpXBp/en/legal-candidacy-international-law-experience-and-legal-rigor?t=19) It's been a privilege to have worked with states from all across the globe.

[0:23](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/0A8VIuNLpXBp/en/legal-candidacy-international-law-experience-and-legal-rigor?t=23) 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.

[0:34](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/0A8VIuNLpXBp/en/legal-candidacy-international-law-experience-and-legal-rigor?t=34) 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.

[0:47](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/0A8VIuNLpXBp/en/legal-candidacy-international-law-experience-and-legal-rigor?t=47) Not so much an elevator pitch as a Lancaster House stairs pitch. And it was brilliant.

[0:53](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/0A8VIuNLpXBp/en/legal-candidacy-international-law-experience-and-legal-rigor?t=53) Thank you very much. Thank you. Dako, you're a fantastic candidate- Thank you ... and I'm supporting you all the way.