[1] He was previously the Sir Joseph Hotung Research Professor in Law, Human Rights and Peace Building in the Middle East at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, where he remains affiliated.
Scobbie studied from 1977 to 1981 at the University of Edinburgh, earning an LLB (Hons).
[2] His doctoral dissertation "examined legal reasoning and the judicial function in the International Court.
"[2] Scobbie is one of the editors of International Law and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: A Rights-Based Approach to Middle East Peace, along with Susan M. Akram, Michael Dumper, and Michael Lynk.
[citation needed] He is the author of Legal Reasoning and the Judicial Function in the International Court.