Ashley (Ash) Stanley-Ryan is a Teaching Associate for Law and Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government. He is also a teaching assistant at the Geneva Academy for International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, and a PhD researcher at the Geneva Graduate Institute (IHEID). Ash’s doctoral research examines the role of the United Nations Secretariat in the development of modern international law, in particular law related to international peace and security.
Ash is an enrolled barrister and solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand. His professional experience includes roles at the International Committee of the Red Cross, United Nations Human Rights, and the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. From 2024-2025 he served as a judicial fellow at the International Court of Justice in the Hague.
Ash holds an LLB and a BA (international relations) from Te Herenga Waka | Victoria University of Wellington and an LLM (international law) summa cum laude from IHEID. He was one of two recipients of the prestigious diploma of the Hague Academy of International law (in public international law) at its centenary session in 2023. He has served on the editorial team for two peer-reviewed journals and has authored several academic works.
“Purposes and Principles of the United Nations Charter” Max Planck Encyclopedia of International Law (Forthcoming, co-authored with Professor Pierre d’Argent)
“‘How strait must be our path’: Secretariats, Crisis Response, and the Structural Crisis of Independence” in Professors Giulio Bartolini and Anne Lagerwall (eds) Collected Volume of the 2024 Centre, Hague Academy Centre for Studies and Research in International Law and International Relations Series (forthcoming).
“On conditional and delayed recognition” (EJIL:Talk!, 2025)
“The Presumption of Civilian Status in Cases of Doubt: a Vital Rule in Increasingly Unsettled Times” (Articles of War, 2025, coauthored with Ms. Mina Radončić)
"Pro patria mori: When States encourage civilian involvement in armed conflict." International Review of the Red Cross 106 (926) (2024) (coauthored with Ms. Mina Radončić)
"Ka mua, ka Muri: He Whakaputanga, Concealed Indigenous Histories, and the Making of International Law" Law&History 10(1) (2024)
“Australia, New Zealand, and Operation Poseidon Archer: Some International Law Questions” (ANZSIL Perspective, 2024)
“The UN Secretariat, the Genocide Convention, and the Progressive Development of International Law” (ANZSIL Annual Conference, 2023)
“JC and Others v Belgium: the Delicate Balance of State Immunity and Human Dignity” (Strasbourg Observers, 2022)
“Achieving Chemical Weapons Convention Compliance in the Aftermath of Khan Shaykhun” New Zealand Journal of Public and International Law 16(1) (2018)