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Alan Vaughan Lowe is Chichele Professor of Public International Law in the University of Oxford, and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, since 1999. Member of the English Bar. Associé de l'Institut de droit international.

He formerly taught at the universities of Cambridge, where he was Reader in International Law and a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Manchester, and Cardiff. His writings include The Law of the Sea, (with Robin Churchill) and The Settlement of International Disputes, (with John Collier). He is co-editor of the British Year Book of International Law and general editor of the Oxford Monographs in International Law.

Lowe practises as a barrister from Essex Court Chambers, 24 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, mainly in the field of international law. His notable appointments include the arbitral tribunals in the cases of Barbados v. Trinidad & Tobago maritime delimitation (2006) (as party-appointed arbitrator), and Bayview v United Mexican States (ICSID, 2006-) (as President of tribunal), and the European Nuclear Energy Tribunal (2006- ) (as a judge, nominated by the UK).

Cases in which he acted as counsel include

• R v. Jones and others [2004] EWCA Crim 1981; [2006] UKHL 16 (for defendants Pritchard and Olditch);
• Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, ICJ, 2004 (for Palestine);
• Case concerning Land Reclamation by Singapore, ITLOS, 2003, (for Singapore);
• Case concerning the MOX plant, UNCLOS arbitration, 2003(for Ireland).
• Azinas v. Cyprus, Grand Chamber ECHR, 2003 (for Cyprus);
• Lauder v Czech Republic, CME v Czech Republic, ad hoc arbitral tribunals, 2001, (for Czech Republic);
• Case concerning the MOX plant, ITLOS, 2001 (for Ireland);
• Southern Bluefin Tuna case, ad hoc arbitral tribunal, 2000 (for Japan);
• Case concerning Passage Through the Great Belt, International Court of Justice, 1991 92 (for Finland).

• List of publications, at the website of the Bodleian Law Library.