About

Mark Retter is a postdoctoral researcher and legal scholar at the University of Cambridge.  An expert on human rights, his research interests include the philosophy of human rights, history of international law, natural law philosophy, and conflict settlement.  

Retter oversees an independent grant to pursue inter-disciplinary research on the role of human rights in modernity, under processes of secularization; and on ethical foundations to international legal order. He supervises undergraduate students in Jurisprudence and Public International Law at the University of Cambridge, and assists with the operation and development of the Language of Peace database, an innovative tool for the United Nations designed to meet the needs of mediators, drafters, conflict parties, and other stakeholders in providing easy access to compare and collate language on key issues across 75,000+ provisions on over 1,000 peace agreements. 

Previously, Retter worked as a Research Associate on the Legal Tools for Peace-Making Project at the Lauterpacht Centre. He completed his doctoral studies, as a Gates Cambridge Scholar, at the University of Cambridge.