Philip Allott is Professor of International Public Law at Cambridge University, where he is a Fellow of Trinity College. From 1960 to 1973 he was a Legal Counsellor in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
He was the Legal Adviser, British Military Governemnt, Berlin (1965-8) and, as such, a member of the Higher Executive Authority of Spandau Prison. He was the Legal Counsellor in the UK Permanent Mission to the European Communities at the time when the UK joined the EC's (1972-3). He was Alternate Representative in the British Delegation to the UN Law of the Sea Conference (1976-81).
He is a Faculty member of the Hauser Global Law School Program at New York University Law School. He is the author of Eunomia. New Order for a New World (Oxford University Press,1990/2001) and The Health of Nations. Society and Law beyond the State (Cambridge University Press, 2002). He is a Fellow of the British Academy.