Politics, International Relations & Philosophy

Lorna Lloyd was educated at the London School of Economics. While studying there for her PhD she worked as a research assistant to the Labour politician and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Philip Noel-Baker, who was one of the most ardent supporters of the League of Nations. Her research grants include Canadian Faculty Research Awards and a Leverhulme Fellowship which funded her recent book.

Her major works are Peace through Law. Britain and the International Court in the 1920s  (Boydell & Brewer for the Royal Historical Society, 1997) and Diplomacy with a Difference. The Commonwealth Office of High Commissioner, 1870-2006 (Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff, 2007).  Her other work includes the chapters on the United Nations in International Organization in World Politics (co-authors, David Armstrong and John Redmond, London: Palgrave/Macmillan, 3rd ed., 2004) and articles in leading international relations, history and international law journals in Britain and North America.

Her next major research project is a book on Commonwealth diplomacy at the League of Nations.  In addition, she is working on A Dictionary of Diplomacy (with G.R. Berridge and Alan James, London: Palgrave-Macmillan, 3^rd ed., 2011) and she is founding editor of a book series on ‘Key Issues in Diplomacy’ (Continuum).

She has served as Convenor of the British International Studies Association’s (BISA) Group on Diplomacy; and has twice chaired the International Law Section of the US-based International Studies Association (ISA) and sat on the ISA’s Governing Council and Executive Committee. Currently, she is on the committee of BISA’s International History Group.

She is also an  Executive Officer of Keele University and College Union.

My next major book will be The Commonwealth and the League of Nations, 1919-1946. It will be another highly original work. For while there are monographs on the role in the League of most of the Dominions, there has been none on the way they interacted and conducted diplomacy at Geneva, nor on how this impacted on the transformation of the pre-1914 British Empire into a Commonwealth of equals.

Hence my current projects: a book chapter on the ‘Dominions and the League’, and an article on the political significance of Canada’s election to the League of Nations Council in 1927 and the use she made of her three-year seat on that body (in which connection I have been awarded a Canadian Government Faculty Research Award).

Further information available here.

• Global International Organisation
• End of Empire
• The Rise & Fall of the League of Nations
• The Commonwealth
• Diplomatic Law
• Diplomatic Practice