Commentators
Commentators
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Biographies
Fiona Ang is a PhD candidate at the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium). She writes a PhD thesis entitled 'The International Human Rights Framework Applicable to Children with a Psychiatric Disability' and is one of the General Editors of the international series 'A Legal Commentary on the Convention on the Rights of the Child' (Martinus Nijhoff Publishers).
Helmut Philipp Aust, MLE, covering Germany. Law studies at the Universities of Göttingen and Paris XII - Val de Marne from 2000-2005, from 2001-2005 undergraduate research assistant at the Institute of International Law, Göttingen; first law degree in 2005, since February 2006 fellow, lecturer and doctoral candidate at the Institute of International Law, University of Munich, Chair of Prof. Dr. Georg Nolte.
Edmunds Broks reports on Latvia for ILDC. His current professional posts include Legal Adviser, Ministry of Justice of Republic of Latvia, Department of the European Court of Justice, and Lecturer of Public International Law and EU Law, University of Latvia. He has published the following books and articles: Eiropas tiesības, (co-authors: Gatawis, S., Bule, Z.), EuroFaculty, Riga, 2002; Rights of Private Applicants to Challenge Acts adopted by EC Institutions: Practice and Deficiencies of Application of Article 230 (4) of the EC Treaty, Likums un Tiesibas, Vol. 5. No.4 (44), April 2003. p.118.
Catherine Brölmann (jurisdiction: The Netherlands) - Associate Professor of International Law, University of Amsterdam; in 2007 on secondment to the legal service of the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs; editor on the board of the journal International Community Law Review; member of the Studygroup on Responsibility of International Organisations of the International Law Association. Recent publications include:
- The Institutional Veil in Public International Law: International Organisations and the Law of Treaties, Hart Publishers, Oxford, 2007 [forthcoming].
- 'A Flat Earth? International Organizations in the System of International Law', in J. Klabbers (ed.), International Organizations, Series: Library of Essays in International Law, Ashgate, 2006, pp. 183-206.
- 'Beyond state sovereignty: The Human Right to water' (with Th. Kiefer), in 5 Non-State actors and International Law 2005, pp. 183-208.
- 'Law-Making Treaties: Form and Function in International Law', 74 Nordic Journal of International Law 2005, pp. 383-404.
Jernej Letnar Černič is a doctoral candidate in International Human Rights Law at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. He holds degrees from University of Ljubljana, University of Lund, European University Institute and Institut international des droits de l'homme.
Aristotle Constantinides received his PhD in International Law from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 2003. He did a post-doc at the same University. He has been a lawyer in Greece and an associate of the Institute of International Public Law and International Relations of Thessaloniki for several years. Since September 2006 he has been a lecturer in international law and human rights at the Department of Law of the University of Cyprus.
Emily Crawford, BA (Hons), LLB (UNSW), is currently writing a PhD at the University of New South Wales, in the area of international humanitarian law. She reports on Australia for ILDC.
Robert J. Currie is an Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, Dalhousie University.
Key public international law publications:
- Co-author (with Hugh Kindred, Phillip Saunders et al.), International Law: Chiefly As Interpreted and Applied in Canada, 7th ed. (Toronto: Emond Montgomery, 2006);
- 'Charter Without Borders? The Supreme Court of Canada, Transnational Crime and Constitutional Rights and Freedoms' (2004) 27 DALHOUSIE LAW JOURNAL 235;
- 'Human Rights and International Mutual Legal Assistance: Resolving the Tension' (2000) 11 CRIMINAL LAW FORUM 143
Fiona de Londras, BCL (Hons), LL.M (NUI) is a PhD Candidate at the Centre for Criminal Justice and Human Rights, National University of Ireland (Cork). Her research focuses on habeas corpus in times of terrorist-related emergency. She has held visiting positions in the University of Peshawar (Pakistan), Emory University and the British Institute of International and Comparative Law and is a lecturer in Human Rights Law in Griffith College Dublin (Ireland).
Bruno Demeyere obtained his basic law degree from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium) and an LL.M from Harvard Law School (USA). He is covering cases from Belgium. Besides being a lawyer at the Brussels bar, he is a member of the Institute for International Law from Leuven University, where he is also preparing his Ph.D in the field of international law.
Vladimir Djeric, LL.B., LL.M. (Michigan), is an attorney-at-law with Mikijelj Jankovic & Bogdanovic in Belgrade, Serbia. In addition to appearing regularly before various Serbian courts, he has acted as counsel in proceedings before the International Court of Justice, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, and the European Court of Human Rights. Previously he was an advisor to the minister of foreign affairs of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia/Serbia and Montenegro (2000-2004), and was a substitute member of the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe (2003-2005).
Marius Emberland (Norway) is Associate Professor at the University of Oslo. D. Phil. (Oxon), LL.M. (Harvard), cand. jur. (Oslo). Author of The Human Rights of Companies: Exploring the Structure of ECHR Protection (Oxford University Press 2006).
Dr. Marina Fedorova graduated in 1999 from St. Petersburg State University (Russia), Faculty of Law (diploma summa cum laude). In 2000, accomplished LL.M. program at the University of Connecticut School of Law (Edmund Muskie Scholarship). Since 2001 lecturer at the Department of International Law, St. Petersburg State University, Faculty of Law. Ph.D. thesis (2004) was devoted to the World Trade Organization dispute settlement mechanism. Published a monograph on the WTO dispute settlement and a number of articles on different issues of international economic law. Was a guest lecturer at the universities of Irkutsk (Russia), Kiel (Germany), and Riga Graduate School of Law (Latvia).
M P Ferreira is an Associate-Professor in the School of Law at the University of South Africa. Principle publications include:
- "Limitation of the right of access to information in South Africa with reference to the Dutch Wet Openbaarheid van Bestuur" De Jure 2003 (vol 36) pp1-19;
- "The impact of treaty reservations on the establishment of an international human rights regime" (co-author: Professor GM Ferreira of the North-West University, Potchefstroom) Comparative and International Law Journal of Southern Africa 2005 (vol 38) pp 148-183;
- "The evolution of state sovereignty: A historical overview" to be published in Fundamina 2006 (vol 12-2); and
- "Global good governance and good global governance" (co-author: Professor GM Ferreira of the North-West University, Potchefstroom) to be published in 2006 South African Yearbook of International Law.
Carlo Focarelli is Professor of International Law at the University of Perugia. He also teaches Private International Law and International Human Rights at the LUISS University of Rome. He is the author of a number of books, including Le contromisure nel diritto internazionale, Milan, 1994; Equo processo e Convenzione europea dei diritti dell'uomo, Padua, 2001; Lezioni di storia del diritto internazionale, Perugia, 2002; Digesto del diritto internazionale, Naples, 2004; as well as of many articles on International Law.
Christian Garuke was a legal researcher at the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in 2004. Currently, he is the Parliament Legal Assistant in the Project : "Parliamentarians for Women's Health" in Nairobi (Kenya). His field of interest : International Public Law, International Criminal Law, International Human Rights Law and Constitutional Law. He holds a LLM degree in Human Rights Law from the University of Pretoria (2005) whereas he got his LLB Degree from the National University of Rwanda (2003).
Dr Maria Gavouneli, BA (Hons), LL.M. (Cantab), Ph.D. (Cantab) is a Lecturer in International Law, Faculty of Law, University of Athens. She reports on Greece and Cyprus for ILDC.
Apart from two monographs, Pollution from offshore installations, Martinus Nijhoff, 1995 (Prix Paul Guggenheim 1995) and State Immunity and the Rule of Law, Ant. N. Sakkoulas, Athens 2001, her recent publications include: Anastasia Strati, Maria Gavouneli & Nikos Skourtos (eds.), Time Before and Time After - Unresolved Issues and New Challenges to the Law of the Sea, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, The Hague/London/New York 2006; Seafarers rights in Greece, in Deirdre Fitzpatrick & Michael Anderson (eds.), Seafarers rights, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2005, pp. 305-340; Prefecture of Voiotia v. Federal Republic of Germany, 95 AJIL 2001, pp. 198-204 (with Ilias Bantekas); and Shamayev & 12 others v. Russia and Georgia, 100 AJIL 2006.
Claudia Geiringer reports on New Zealand for ILDC, and is a Senior Lecturer at the Victoria University of Wellington School of Law, New Zealand and the Acting Co-Director of the New Zealand Centre for Public Law. She was previously a Crown Counsel at the Crown Law Office of the New Zealand Government.
Jeff Handmaker reports on the Netherlands for ILDC. He is a university lecturer in Development, Human Rights and Governance at the Institute of Social Studies (ISS) in The Hague and is finishing a PhD at the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM), Faculty of Law, Utrecht University. In 1993 and between 1996 until 2000 he worked for the South African organisation Lawyers for Human Rights and also worked a short time for the Dutch Refugee Council. From 2000 until 2006 he worked as a freelance consultant, completing projects in various locations in Europe, Southern Africa, West Africa, the Mahgreb and Middle-East. He has published numerous articles, including 'Seeking justice, guaranteeing protection and ensuring due process', Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights, Volume 21, No. 4 (2003). An edited volume on refugee protection issues in South Africa will be published in 2007 by Berghahn Books.
Christian Hoppe, Dr. iur, covering Germany. Study of law at the University of Cologne, Research Fellow to Prof. Dr. Juergen F. Baur, Law Centre for European and International Cooperation, University of Cologne, 2003-2005; Research Fellow to Prof. Dr. Bernhard Kempen, Institute for Public International Law and Foreign Public Law, University of Cologne, 2005-2006. Publication: "Staatshaftung und Rechtsschutz bei Verletzung grundfreiheitlicher Schutzpflichten", 2006 (State Liability and Judicial Protection in Case of Member States' Failure to protect the Basic Freedoms), doctoral thesis (forthcoming).
Devika Hovell is currently undertaking a doctorate at the University of Oxford, writing on the law-making functions of the Security Council and its subsidiary organs. Her previous publications on the relationship between international and domestic law include two books, No Country is an Island: Australia and international law (2006) (with Hilary Charlesworth, Madelaine Chiam and George Williams) and The Fluid State: International Law and National Legal Systems (2005) (edited with Hilary Charlesworth, Madelaine Chiam and George Williams). She has also written several articles on the subject, including "A Tale of Two Systems: The Use of International Law in Constitutional Interpretation in Australia and South Africa" (2005) 29 Melbourne University Law Review 95 (with George Williams); "Lifting the Executive Veil: Australia's Accession to the First Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights" (2003) 24(2) Adelaide Law Review 187; and "Deep Anxieties: Australia and the International Legal Order" (2003) 25 Sydney Law Review 423 (with Hilary Charlesworth, Madelaine Chiam and George Williams).
Massimo Iovane is a full professor of International Law at the law faculty of Federico II University, Naples, co-ordinator of the Research Doctorate courses and visiting professor at the University of Paris 1, Panthéon Sorbonne for 2006. A list of his publications is available as a PDF.
Bing Bing Jia reports on China for ILDC. He is currently a Professor of International Law at Tsinghua University Law School, Beijing. Previously he held the position of Legal Officer, the Appeals Chamber/Trial Chamber III/Trial Chamber II of the UN International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.
Hugh M. Kindred reports on Canada for ILDC. A member of the Bars of England and Nova Scotia, Hugh Kindred is Professor of Law at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada where he teaches international law, commercial law and marine transportation. He has also worked for UNCTAD in Geneva and taught at the University of Sydney, Australia. An advisor to governments, he has published many articles and books, of which Maritime Law, written with Edgar Gold and Aldo Chircop, was co-winner of the Walter Owen Book Prize for the best text in English in Canada in 2003-2005. He is also co-general editor, with Phillip Saunders, and co-author of International Law Chiefly as Interpreted and Applied in Canada, which is now in its 7th edition (2006). In 2003 the Canadian Association of Law Teachers honoured Professor Kindred with its Award for Academic Excellence.
Lim Hye-Young is an LLD Candidate, Academic Tutor for LLM Human Rights and Democratisation at the Africa Center for Human Rights University of Pretoria, South Africa. Hye-Young wrote an assessment of the current social assistance grants in South Africa in times of AIDS (accepted and to be published in 2007 - International Journal of Children's Rights), as well as Commentary on selected communications before the Commission in 2003 (Co-author with Ms. Mianko Ramaroson) (accepted and to be published) and Alleviating child poverty in South Africa - The role of social assistance grants, ESR Review Vol 7 No 1 (April, 2006).
LiangRong Lin reports on Taiwan for ILDC, and earned an LL.M. from Soochow University and LL.B. from National Taiwan University. LiangRong was a Visiting Scholar at Yale Law School and is currently public prosecutor, Taiwan Taipei District Prosecutors Office.
Dr Lirette Louw, LL.B (Free State), LL.M, LL.D (Pretoria). Dr Louw works for the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development in the Branch: Legislation and Constitutional Development.
Publication list:
- F Viljoen & L Louw "State compliance with the recommendations of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights" to be published in the American Journal of International Law.
- F Viljoen & L Louw "The status of the findings of the African Commission: From moral persuasion to legal obligation" (2004) 48 Journal of African Law 1-22.
- L Louw (Series and volume author) "HIV/AIDS and Human Rights in South Africa" (2004) Centre for the Study of AIDS & Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria.
- L Louw (Series author) "HIV/AIDS and Human Rights in Namibia"; "HIV/AIDS and Human Rights in Botswana"; HIV/AIDS and Human Rights in Zimbabwe"; "HIV/AIDS and Human Rights in Mozambique"; "HIV/AIDS and Human Rights in Malawi"; "HIV/AIDS and Human Rights in Swaziland"; "HIV/AIDS and Human Rights in Zambia" (2004) Centre for the Study of AIDS & Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria.
- M Van der Linde & L Louw "Considering the interpretation and implementation of article 24 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights in light of the SERAC communication" (2003) 1 African Human Rights Law Journal 167-187.
- L Louw "Domestic effect of UN Human Rights Treaties in Africa (including references to findings by treaty bodies)", paper delivered in Turku, Finland in September 2003, published at Institute for Human Rights Åbo Akademi University.
- SF Musungu & L Louw "The Pursuit of Justice in Post-Genocide Rwanda: An evaluation of the international and domestic legal responses" (2001) 2 East African Journal of Peace & Human Rights 196-214.
- L Louw "Hate Speech in Africa: Formulating an appropriate legal response for a racially and ethnically divided continent with specific reference to South Africa and Rwanda" (November 2001): dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements of the degree LLM (Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa) University of Pretoria (56 pages). Published in the International Yearbook of Regional Human Rights Masters Programmes (2001), 157-193, Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria.
- L Louw "Risk Assessment: Democratic Republic of Congo Post-Laurent Kabila" (2001) 2 African Journal on Conflict Resolution 87-104.
Tsvetanka Lozanova has been a Research Associate of Public International Law, PhD. at the Institute for Legal Sciences of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences since 1992. Her scientific interests and publications are in the field of Law of Treaties, International Human Rights, International Law and Domestic Law, International Environmental Law, International Justice. In 1994 she was a SSRC-Mac Arthur Foundation Visiting Fellow at Yale University. Member of: the International Law Association, the European Society of International Law, the American Society of International Law, the Bulgarian Association of International Law.
Publications:
- Tsvetanka Lozanova, Prilagane na mezhdunarodnite dogovori za zashtita na pravata na choveka ot Varhovniya administrativen sad v Bulgaria (Application of the International Treaties for the Protection of Human Rights by the Supreme Administrative Court in Bulgaria), in Yuridicheski Svyat (Juridical World), No. 1, 2005, at 127-69 [journal]; and
- Tsvetanka Lozanova, Prilagane na mezhdunarodnite dogovori za zashtita na pravata na choveka ot Varhovniya kasatsionen sad v Bulgaria (Application of the International Treaties for the Protection of Human Rights by the Supreme Court of Cassation in Bulgaria), in Yuridicheski Svyat (Juridical World), No. 1, 2006, at 113-57.
Gillian MacNeil reports on Canada for ILDC. She is a recent graduate of Dalhousie Law School.
Surabhi Madan worked as Legal Counsel of the South Asia Desk at Tan Kok Quan Partnership in Singapore. From January 2007, she joined the National University of Singapore as a research scholar. Her curriculum vitae is available as a PDF.
Ayesha Malik (LL.B class of 1996, Pakistan College of Law) was admitted to Harvard Law School for the LL.M program. She has been awarded the prestigious title of Landon Gammon Fellow by the Harvard University for her outstanding merit. She is the first Pakistani to receive this award. She has specialized in administrative law, international commercial arbitration and international trade law.
Siobhán McNamara is a student at the Universiteit van Amsterdam. She has been working as an assistant to Edda Kristjánsdóttir, Managing Editor of Oxford Reports on International Law in Domestic Courts, since April 2006. She is due to graduate with an LLM in International and European Law in December 2006.
Prior to commencing her LLM, she graduated with a BCL (International) degree from University College Cork in 2005, and also spent one year of Erasmus study at the University of Deusto, Bilbao, 2003 - 2004.
She participated in the Amsterdam International Law Clinic in 2006. She also works as an editor for a Research Training Network which is compiling a comparative report on human rights in private law in several EU states, soon to be published in association with the European Commission.
Siobhán is currently completing her Masters thesis.
Blanca Montejo is an associate in the international arbitration and public international law groups of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. Blanca studied law at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. She completed her studies at the Istituto Universtario Europeo in Florence where she obtained an LLM in Comparative, European and International Law and at New York University where she obtained a second LLM in General Studies specialising in Public and Private International Law.
Blanca is an occasional lecturer at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, the Universite Paris X (Paris-Nanterre), and the Universidad de Buenos Aires. She was also co-director of the first summer course on international arbitration organised by the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid in July 2005.
She works currently in New York where she specialises in international commercial and investment arbitration and in public international law in relation to land and maritime boundaries. Blanca is a member of the Madrid and the New York Bars.
Liliana Obregón reports on Colombia for ILDC. She is Professor of International Law at the University of Los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia; MA, SAIS, Johns Hopkins; SJD Harvard Law School; Previously Director(A) of the Global Studies Program, University of Wisconsin; Publications Director of the Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL), Washington D.C.; Research Associate, Conservation International, Washington D.C.; Most recent publication: "Noted for Dissent: The International Life of Alejandro Alvarez", Leiden Journal of International Law (forthcoming).
Opeoluwa Ogundokun reports on Nigeria for ILDC. Opeoluwa is a Senior Associate, Matrix-Solicitors, Lagos, Nigeria.
Asst. Prof. Dr. Kudret Özersay was born in Cyprus (1973). He graduated from Ankara University, Faculty of Political Science, Department of International Relations in 1995. He completed his MA thesis at Ankara University in the field of international law in 1998, and completed his PhD thesis titled "Legal Validity of the 1959-1960 Cyprus Treaties" at the Chair of International Law (Ankara University) in 2002. Since 2003 he has been a full-time faculty member at the Department of International Relations, Eastern Mediterranean University, Northern Cyprus.
Paolo Palchetti reports on Italy for ILDC. He is an Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Macerata.
Mianko Ramaroson is a Doctoral candidate, Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria.
Principle publications:
Rohini Rangachari reports on India for ILDC. Rohini completed her Masters in European Business Law (2002) from the Université d'Aix-Marseille III, Aix-en-Provence, France and her LL.B. from Delhi University (2001) pursuant to her Masters in French Literature from New York University (1997). She is enrolled with the Bar Council of Delhi. Rohini's prior experience includes working as an Assistant Counsel at the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) in Paris, in the International Arbitration & Litigation Department of Shearman & Sterling, Paris and in the Mergers and Acquisitions Department of a renowned German law firm based in Stuttgart, Germany. She is presently working in the New Delhi office of Dua Associates on corporate law matters. Her publications include :
- The Book Review, Reviewed Cases in the Mohammadan Law in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh by Asaf A.A. Fyzee, 2005
- Lex Times, a Law Students Journal. Authored article on a "Brief Overview of the International Court of Arbitration", 2004
- Lex Times, Editor-in-Chief, quarterly newspaper of "Students for the Promotion of International Law", a law students organization, New Delhi, India
- The Book Review. Reviewed Intellectual Property Rights by Bibek Debroy, February 2001. Reviewed Uncommon Law by A.P. Herbert, Volume XXIII, Number 12, December 1999, New Delhi, India
- Business Standard, Leading Indian Business Newspaper. Co-authored article on Information Technology Bill, 1999 in May 2000, New Delhi, India
Dr Rosemary Rayfuse is an Associate Professor, Director of International Law Programs, Faculty of Law, The University of New South Wales. A list of Dr. Rayfuse's publications is available as a PDF.
Eva Rieter, M.A. in law (Maastricht University), LL.M (University of Virginia, US), reports on the Netherlands for ILDC. She is completing a PhD dissertation on provisional measures in international human rights adjudication - which also includes discussion of ICJ and ITLOS case law. Assistant Professor Public International Law, Radboud University Nijmegen; previously lecturer public international law and research fellow human rights law, Maastricht University; publications on provisional measures and reparation, death threats, torture (including non-refoulement) and the death penalty, e.g. 'Interim Measures by the World Court to Suspend the Execution of An Individual: the Breard Case', in: 16(4) Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights 475 (1998)
Martin Roger is Legal Adviser to the Permanent Mission of Estonia to the United Nations, representing amongst others Estonia in the 6th (Legal) Committee of the General Assembly.
Publications:
International responsibility of a state for violations of erga omnes obligations, Juridica, VI, 2001; International Criminal Court and its implications to Estonian Defence Forces, Baltic Defence Review, No 10 Vol 2 (2003); Can acts of international terrorism be regarded as crimes against humanity? Yearbook of Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2005)
Cedric Ryngaert, who reports on Belgium for ILDC, is a research fellow at the Fund for Scientific Research Flanders, Institute for International Law, University of Leuven.
Birgit Schlütter, LL.M. (London), Ph.d. candidate at Humboldt-University Berlin, covering Germany. Undergraduate studies at Trier University and Humboldt-University Berlin, research fellow for Prof. Dr. Heintschel von Heinegg at European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany (2005- 2006) at the British Institute for International and Comparative Law (BIICL), London, and for Dr. Matthew Craven, SOAS, London (2005).
Frank Schorkopf, Dr. iur., co-ordinating and reporting on Germany. Studies at University of Hamburg and London School of Economics, research assistant University of Hamburg, Chair: Prof. Dr. Meinhard Hilf, 1998-2001; research fellow at the Max-Planck-Institute for International Law, Heidelberg 2001-2002; law clerk at the Federal Constitutional Court, 2002-2005; since June 2005 research fellow at University of Bonn, Chair: Prof. Dr. Dr. Udo Di Fabio; recent publications: WTO - World Economic Order, World Trade Law, WTO Max Planck Commentaries on World Trade Law, Vol. 1, Leiden/Boston 2006 (with P.-T. Stoll); co-editor of "Terrorism as a Challenge for National and International Law: Security versus Liberty?", Berlin/Heidelberg 2004.
Jon Stokholm has been a judge of the Supreme Court of Denmark since 2003. Prior to his appointment he was a practising lawyer in Copenhagen dealing mainly with international matters. In the years 1999-2003 he was president of The Danish Bar and Law Society.
Dr. Sándor Szemesi is a university assistant lecturer (University of Debrecen, Faculty of Law, Department of Public International Law), member of International Law Association (ILA) Hungarian Branch.
Area of research: Non-discrimination in the practice of the European Court of Human Rights (tutor: Prof. Dr. Péter Kovács, judge of the Constitutional Court of Hungary).
Teaching lectures and seminars from public international law at University of Debrecen since 2003.
Publications and presentations concerning public international law, especially the practice of the European Court of Human Rights.
Dr Szemesi's curriculum vitae is available as a PDF.
Christian J. Tams (covering Germany) is a lecturer at the Walther-Schücking-Institute for International Law at the University of Kiel in Germany. After completing his legal studies in Germany, he obtained an LL.M. and a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge (U.K.). He has published mainly on questions of State responsibility, dispute settlement and investment arbitration, and has been involved in proceedings before the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea and the International Court of Justice.
Liam Thornton graduated with a First Class Honours BCL (International) Degree from University College Cork (NUI), Ireland in 2005. He was awarded a Government of Ireland postgraduate scholarship to fund his thesis on "Reception Conditions for Asylum Seekers: Meeting the Standards of International Human Rights Law?" Liam shall be Book Review Editor for the 2007 Edition of the Irish Yearbook of International Law.
Dr. Ximena Fuentes Torrijo (D.Phil, Oxon.) reports on Chile for ILDc. She is an Associate Professor of International Law at Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Chile and Assistant Professor of International Law at Universidad de Chile. She is also Vice-President of the Chilean Society of International Law.
Dries Van Eeckhoutte reports on Belgium for ILDC, and is Legal Advisor on International & European Environmental Policy at the Flemish government (Belgium) and Researcher at the Institute for International Law at the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium). His research concerns the invocability of international law in the Belgian and European legal order, which resulted in several publications (click here for more information).
Marieke van Eik reports on the Netherlands for ILDC. She is an attorney with Böhler Franken Koppe Wijngaarden attorneys in Amsterdam and specialises in refugee cases, in particular cases involving exclusion under Article 1F of the 1951 UN Refugees Convention. She obtained her Masters in Law (LLM) from the University of Amsterdam.
Maarten van der Vlugt is an LLM student of Public International Law and of Criminal Law at the Universiteit van Amsterdam.
He completed an internship with Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in 2006 and participated in the Amsterdam International Law Clinic in 2005.
Maarten has been working for Oxford Reports on International Law in Domestic Courts since September 2006. Previously he was assistant to the board of editors of Internationale en Interregionale Samenwerking; a leading Dutch commentary on international judicial and police cooperation in criminal matters.
Maarten is currently writing his Masters thesis and is due to graduate by the end of 2006.
Prof. Dr. Harmen van der Wilt reports on the international criminal law cases from the Netherlands for ILDC. He is currently a Professor of International Criminal Law, University of Amsterdam. Formerly a lecturer at University of Maastricht and ad litem judge at the District Court of Roermond, the Netherlands. Numerous publications (both in Dutch and in English) include articles on Complicity in Genocide (the van Anraat-case) and Joint Criminal Enterprise in the Journal of International Criminal Justice.
Simon Vande Walle reports on Belgium for ILDC. He is an attorney at Linklaters De Bandt in Brussels, Belgium. He is a member of the Brussels and New York Bars and specialises in international litigation, representing both private clients and Sovereign States. He holds a law degree from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium) and LL.M. degrees from Georgetown University Law Center (Washington DC, USA) as well as Kyushu University (Japan).
Sten Verhoeven started his legal studies at the Katholieke Universiteit Brussel and obtained his degree of Candidate in Law in with distinction in 1999. Afterwards, he continued his legal study at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, where he received his law degree with distinction. in 2002. During 2002-2003, he studied International Relations and Conflict prevention at the same university. Furthermore, he participated twice in the Jessup International Law Moot Court for the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and reached the 37th place in the ranking of the Jessup Competition of 2002-2003. From the 1st of October 2003, he is an assistant in international law at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and is preparing a PhD entitled "Peremptory Norms in International Humanitarian Law". His main contributions include: "The Prohibition of Genocide as a Norm of Ius Cogens and Its Implications on the Enforcement on the Law of Genocide", International Criminal Law Review 2005, 401-415 (with J. Wouters); "Attacks by Private Actors and Self-Defence", Journal of Conflict and Security Law 2005, 289-320 (with T. Ruys); "Case Note Prosecutor v. Naletilic and Martinovic", in A. Klip en G. Sluiter, Annotated Case Law of the ICTY (forthcoming).
Maarten Vidal is a researcher at the Institute for International Law Research topics: local transfrontier co-operation - treaty law - law of international organizations Principal international publications:
- J. Wouters en M. Vidal, "An international law perspective on tax treaties and domestic law", in G. Maisto (ed.), EC and International Tax Law Series. Vol. 2: Tax treaties and domestic law, Amsterdam, IBFD, 2006, 13-35.
- J. Wouters & M. Vidal, "Article IV-441", to be published in L.
- Burgorgue, A. Levade & F. Picod (eds.), Traité établissant une Constitution pour l'Europe. Commentaire article par article, I, Brussels, Bruylant, 2006.
(more information about publications in Dutch is available here)
André von Walter, LL.M., MPA, covering Germany. Studies at the Universities of Cologne and Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne); Diplôme d'Etudes Approfondies (DEA) in International Economic Law, 2000; Studies at the Ecole Nationale d'Administration (ENA), 2000-2002; Consultant for the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), 2003; since October 2003 Research Fellow at the Institute for Public International Law of the University of Bonn.
Prof. Dr. Jan Wouters is professor of international law and the law of international organizations and Director of the Institute for International Law at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. He is also President of the United Nations Association Flanders-Belgium and practises law as Of Counsel at Linklaters De Bandt in Brussels. He studied law and philosophy in Antwerp and Yale University (LLM 1990), worked as a Visiting Researcher at Harvard Law School and defended his PhD at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. He has held teaching positions at the Universities of Antwerp, Liège and Maastricht and worked previously as référendaire at the European Court of Justice. He is the editor of the International Encyclopedia of Intergovernmental Organizations, is vice-director of the Revue belge de droit international and participates in the European Network of Excellence Connex (Connecting Excellence in European Governance). Prof. Wouters has published widely on international, European, company and financial law, including a recent comprehensive handbook on public international law as well as a number of co-edited books, including Conflict Prevention. Policy and Legal Aspects (T.M.C. Asser Press, 2004), Legal Instruments in the Fight Against International Terrorism (Martinus Nijhof, 2004) and The United Nations and the European Union. An Ever Stronger Partnership (T.M.C. Asser Press, 2006). Prof. Wouters is married and has 6 children.
Andreas R. Ziegler reports on Switzerland and Liechtenstein for ILDC. He is currently a Professor of Law at the University of Lausanne, and Visiting Professor at the University of New South Wales (Sydney). Previous notable positions include Head of the International and European Economic Law Section, Swiss Ministry of Trade and Industry, and Senior Officer EFTA Secretariat. Trade and Environment in the European Community (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1996) and Introduction au droit international public (Stämpfli, Bern, 2006) are two of his major publications.
