Dr Matina Papadaki
- Lecturer in International Law (Law)
email:
Matina.Papadaki@glasgow.ac.uk
pronouns:
She/her/hers
https://orcid.org/0009-0000-0871-9341Biography
Dr Matina Papadaki is a Lecturer in International Law at the University of Glasgow, and International Law Researcher at the Academy of Athens and Research Coordinator of the Athens Public International Law Centre. She has worked as Commissioning Coordinator and Copy Chief for the Max Planck Encyclopedia for International Procedural Law (EiPro). She has published on a range of issues related to international courts and tribunals including most notably their jurisdiction. Her work has been cited by judges in international proceedings and she has practical experience of working at the International Law Commission
Publications
2026
Devaney, James 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7226-6380 and Papadaki, Matina
(2026)
Introductory note to obligations of Israel in relation to the presence and activities of the United Nations, and other international organizations and third states in and in relation to the occupied Palestinian territory.
International Legal Materials,
(Accepted for Publication)
Papadaki, Matina (2026) The use of the International Court of Justice's obiter dicta as building blocks in international law. Journal of International Dispute Settlement, (Accepted for Publication)
Papadaki, Matina (2026) Reconceptualizing General Principles in International Law. Cambridge University Press. (Accepted for Publication)
2025
Ridi, Niccolo and Papadaki, Matina ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-0871-9341
(2025)
Instrumentalized Migration and Jurisdictional Challenges: Lithuania v. Belarus at the ICJ.
[Website]
Papadaki, Matina ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-0871-9341
(2025)
General principles in international law: reshuffling normative concepts.
In:
Netherlands Yearbook of International Law.
Springer.
(Accepted for Publication)
2024
Papadaki, Matina ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-0871-9341
(2024)
Incidental proceedings in the ICJ and the fateful passage of time.
In: Gattini, Andrea and Dimetto, Marco (eds.)
Time and International Adjudication.
Brill, pp. 177-198.
ISBN 9789004716360
(doi: 10.1163/9789004716377_011)
2022
Papadaki, Matina ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-0871-9341
(2022)
Favourite Readings 2022 – A Year in Reading Fragments.
[Website]
Papadaki, Matina ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-0871-9341
(2022)
Complex Disputes and Narrow Compromissory Clauses: Ukraine’s Institution of Proceedings against Russia.
[Website]
Articles
Devaney, James ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7226-6380 and Papadaki, Matina
(2026)
Introductory note to obligations of Israel in relation to the presence and activities of the United Nations, and other international organizations and third states in and in relation to the occupied Palestinian territory.
International Legal Materials,
(Accepted for Publication)
Papadaki, Matina (2026) The use of the International Court of Justice's obiter dicta as building blocks in international law. Journal of International Dispute Settlement, (Accepted for Publication)
Books
Papadaki, Matina (2026) Reconceptualizing General Principles in International Law. Cambridge University Press. (Accepted for Publication)
Book Sections
Papadaki, Matina ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-0871-9341
(2025)
General principles in international law: reshuffling normative concepts.
In:
Netherlands Yearbook of International Law.
Springer.
(Accepted for Publication)
Papadaki, Matina ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-0871-9341
(2024)
Incidental proceedings in the ICJ and the fateful passage of time.
In: Gattini, Andrea and Dimetto, Marco (eds.)
Time and International Adjudication.
Brill, pp. 177-198.
ISBN 9789004716360
(doi: 10.1163/9789004716377_011)
Website
Ridi, Niccolo and Papadaki, Matina ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-0871-9341
(2025)
Instrumentalized Migration and Jurisdictional Challenges: Lithuania v. Belarus at the ICJ.
[Website]
Papadaki, Matina ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-0871-9341
(2022)
Favourite Readings 2022 – A Year in Reading Fragments.
[Website]
Papadaki, Matina ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-0871-9341
(2022)
Complex Disputes and Narrow Compromissory Clauses: Ukraine’s Institution of Proceedings against Russia.
[Website]
Prior publications
Book Section
(2024) Chapter 9 Incidental Proceedings in the ICJ and the Fateful Passage of Time Time and International Adjudication Matina Papadaki. ISBN 9789004716360 (doi: 10.1163/9789004716377)
Photini Pazartzis, Matina Papadaki (2019) General Principles and International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law General Principles and the Coherence of International Law Matina Papadaki. ISBN 9789004390928 (doi: 10.1163/9789004390935_022)
Matina Papadaki (2019) Substantive and Procedural Rules in International Adjudication: Exploring their Interaction in Intervention before the International Court of Justice International Law and Litigation Matina Papadaki. (doi: 10.5771/9783845299051-37)
Article
Matina Papadaki (2022) Incidental Questions as a Gatekeeping Doctrine AJIL Unbound Matina Papadaki. ISSN 2398-7723 (doi: 10.1017/aju.2022.27)
M. Papadaki (2014) Compromissory Clauses as the Gatekeepers of the Law to be 'Used' in the ICJ and the PCIJ Journal of International Dispute Settlement Matina Papadaki. ISSN 2040-3593 (doi: 10.1093/jnlids/idu012)
Other
Papadaki Matina (2018) Intervention: International Court of Justice (ICJ) Max Planck Encylopedia of International Procedural Law Matina Papadaki. (doi: 10.1093/law-mpeipro/e3025.013.3025)
Teaching
United Nations Law
Advanced Introduction to the Law of the United Nations
Public International Law
Advanced International Law
Public International Law and Human Rights
Transnational Crime, Justice and Security
