Dr Kubo Mačák

Kubo Mačák is Professor of International Law at the Law School and a member of the Exeter Centre for International Law. He was appointed as a Lecturer in 2013, Senior Lecturer in 2016, Associate Professor in 2019, and Professor in 2023. He also led the mooting programme at Exeter Law School from 2013 to 2016. Between 2019 and 2023, he served as Legal Adviser at the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva.

Kubo’s research interests span general international law, international humanitarian law, and the law of cyber security. He is the author of Internationalized Armed Conflicts in International Law (Oxford University Press 2018). His work has been published in journals including the the International & Comparative Law Quarterly, International Review of the Red Cross, the Journal of Conflict and Security Law, and the Chinese Journal of International Law.

Kubo holds the degrees of DPhil, MPhil, and MJur from the University of Oxford (Somerville College), and an undergraduate degree in law from Charles University in Prague. In 2012, he was awarded the Diploma of the Hague Academy of International Law. 

Kubo has been a Europaeum visiting researcher at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies and the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva; a Research Fellow of the Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions at the University of Haifa, Israel; a Gastwissenschaftler (visiting scholar) at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, Germany; and a Visiting Fellow of The Hague Program for Cyber Norms at the University of Leiden, the Netherlands.

He has worked at the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague and at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in Arusha, Tanzania. He has also served as a law clerk to the President of the Constitutional Court of the Slovak Republic. In 2024, he served as Director of Studies at the Hague Academy of International Law.

Kubo is currently acting as the General Editor of the Cyber Law Toolkit and as the Principal Investigator of “The Handbook on Developing a National Position on International Law in Cyberspace: A Practical Guide for States” project.