Göran Sluiter has been awarded a Vici Grant by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) for his research into secondary liability in connection with serious human rights violations and international crimes. The aim is to adapt the law and practice of indirect liability to that which is required for the protection of human rights.

ACIL has vacancies for the following positions: a Postdoctoral researcher in Public International Law, three PhD candidates in International Criminal Law, a PhD candidate in Public International Law and a PhD candidate in European Union Law and Public International Law (with the Amsterdam Centre for European Law and Governance).

Katherine Fortin has been awarded the Francis Lieber Prize by the American Society for International Law. Her PhD dissertation on “The Accountability of Armed Groups under Human Rights Law” was awarded cum laude in October 2015 under the joint supervision of Cees Flinterman (UU), Harmen van der Wilt (UvA) and Terry Gill (UvA). The prize will be presented to her at the upcoming annual meeting of the American Society for International Law in Washington D.C.  Katherine is an assistant professor of international law at Utrecht University and member of the LACMO research group at ACIL. Her dissertation was published in 2017 by Oxford University Press. 

Yvonne Donders will undertake a consultancy for UNESCO Headquarters in Paris. She is asked to prepare an update of the 2003 UNESCO Human Rights Strategy, to be adopted by the Member States in 2019. The new human rights strategy is supposed to reaffirm the role of UNESCO in the field of human rights within the UN system and to place UNESCO's human rights activities in the new context of several international frameworks, such as the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals and the UN Urban Agenda. A broad consultation process including Member States, NGOs, NHRIs and human rights experts is part of the process.

A team of ACIL Research Master Students, Antanina Maslyka, Mariana Simon Cartaya, Christina Vellioti and LL.M. student Josh Jackson are assisting Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky, UNHCHR independent expert on the effects of foreign debt, in the writing of Guiding Principles on Economic Reform and Human Rights. These Principles will be submitted to the Human Rights Committee later this year.  Ingo Venzke will participate in an expert meeting on this in Geneva in June.

UvA LL.M. students Enes Süheyl Karataş, Laura Isabel Martínez Jiménez, Jens Ørum and Gijs Verhagen came 9th (jointly) out of 47 in the Frankfurt Investment Arbitration Moot Court (FIAMC) 2018. This is the first time a UvA team has qualified for “the round of sixteen” and the best result that UvA has achieved so far. The team was coached by Kerem Gülay and Vladislav Djanic. FIAMC is the oldest and the most prestigious moot court in the field of investment protection law. It is organized by Goethe University’s Wilhelm Merton Centre for European Integration and International Economic Order and McDermott Will & Emery."

The UvA will be represented in the finals of the WTO Moot Court Competition to be held from 19 to 24 June 2018 in Geneva. Students Aline Fadié, Anna Šablicová, Kehinde Ibrahim and Lilian Meinen make up one of the four best teams admitted to argue their case in this, the final round of the competition. The team is coached by ACIL's Geraldo Vidigal.

Save the date: the ACIL Annual Research Day will take place on the 28th May 2018. More information to follow. This event is limited to ACIL members.

ヨーロッパにおける多様性：多元主義からポピュリズムへ (Diversity in Europe: From Pluralism to Populism? translated to Japanese,  未来共生学 (Journal on Multicultural Studies) Vol. 6, March 2018, p. 95-114

‘The Michigan Guidelines on Refugee Freedom of Movement’, 39 Michigan Journal of International Law 2018, 5-17

 

‘What Is an International Crime? (A Revisionist History)’, 58 Harvard International Law Journal 231 (2018).

 

‘The duality of shared responsibility’, Contemporary Politics, DOI: 10.1080/13569775.2018.1452107 (2018).

 

‘MFN Clauses as Bilateral Commitments to Multilateralism: A Reply to Simon Batifort and J. Benton Heath.’ American Journal of International Law, 111(4), 914-935. DOI: 10.1017/ajil.2017.94 (2017).

 

‘Investor-State Dispute Settlement Reform at UNCITRAL: A Looming Constitutional Moment?’, The Journal of World Investment & Trade, 19(1), 1-5. DOI: 10.1163/22119000-12340087 (2018).

 

‘Investitionsschutz in EU-Freihandelsabkommen: Erosion gesetzgeberischer Gestaltungsmacht? Eine rechtsvergleichende Analyse im Mehrebenengeflecht von Verfassungs-, Unions- und Völkerrecht am Beispiel des EU-Freihandelsabkommens mit Kanada (CETA).‘ Heidelberg Journal of International Law/Zeitschrift für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht, 78(1), 33-92.

 

‘Why Is There So Little Litigation under Free Trade Agreements? Retaliation and Adjudication in International Dispute Settlement’ 20 Journal of International Economic Law (2017) 027-950.

‘Refugees and the Right to Freedom of Movement: From Flight to Return’, 39 Michigan Journal of International Law 2018, 19-116

Morality and Responsibility of Rulers: Chinese and European Early Modern Origins of a rule of law as justice for world order (OUP, 2018).

'The Moral Responsibility of Rulers: Going back beyond the liberal rule of law for world order', in Carty, A. and Nijman, J. (Eds.) Morality and Responsibility of Rulers: Chinese and European Early Modern Origins of a rule of law as justice for world order (OUP, 2018).

 

'A Universal Rule of Law for a Pluralist World Order: Leibniz's Universal Jurisprudence and His Praise of the Chinese Ruler' in Carty, A. and Nijman, J. (Eds.), Morality and Responsibility of Rulers: Chinese and European Early Modern Origins of a rule of law as justice for world order (OUP, 2018).

 

International Investment Law and History. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2018.

 

‘International Investment Law and History: An Introduction’, in Schill, S. Tams, C and Hofmann, R. (Eds.), International Investment Law and History. Edward Elgar Publishing,  2018. (pp. 3-37).

 

‘Semantic Authority, Legal Change and the Dynamics of International Law’, in Capps, P. and Palmer Olsen, H. (Eds.), Legal Authority Beyond the State, Cambridge University Press, 2018. pp. 102-126.

‘Refugees and Other Forcibly Displaced Persons’, in Gill, T., Fleck, D. Boothby, W and Vanheusden, A. (Eds.), Leuven Manual on the International Law Applicable to Peace Operations, Cambridge University Press, December 2017, Ch. 4.4, 204-222

‘Legal possibilities for amendment of the COTIF revision procedure’, presentation at the 2018 Member States’ (Revision Ctee) session, Intergovernmental Organisation for International Carriage by Rail (OTIF), Bern 27 February 2018.

 

‘Brexit en verdragenrecht en-praktijk’ (Brexit and treaty law and practice), presentation at Conferentie Ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken, 13 February 2018

 

‘Equitable access to […] water for all’ - SDG6 as a connective factor in International Water Law’, paper presentation at Freie Universität Berlin (Joint Interdisciplinary Colloquium, Human Rights under Pressure), 6 February 2018

 

Presentation/participation in the consultation on a Potential General Comment on Sustainable Development and Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Geneva 24 March 2018.

HashTech #1 Eeen avond over privacy, hacken en cybersecurity, Podium De Stadstaat, Tivoli/Vredenburg, Utrecht 12 February 2018.

 

‘Toward a Jurisprudence of Boredom’ — presentation at the William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal Annual Symposium, Rights Protection in International Criminal Law and Beyond, William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, 17 March 2018.

 

What is an International Crime (A Revisionist History), Harvard International Law Journal Symposium, online, 20 March 2018.

 

‘The Legacy of the Saddam Trial’ — presentation at the Society of Legal Scholars Annual Seminar 2018, The Legal Legacies of the 2003 Iraq War, SOAS, University of London, 26 March 2018.

 

‘Creation of Bindingness: Whose Voice Matters?’,  Critical Research in Public International Law, Stockholm Center for International Law and Justice, Sweden  (11-3-2018)

 

‘Brexit: de transitie van de Europese naar de internationale rechtsorde (Brexit: the transition from the European to the international legal order)’, Key Note speech at Conferentie Ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken, 13 February 2018.

 

‘Internationaler Investitionsschutz und Verfassungsrecht: Vermessung eines neuen Interaktionsmodus in Forschung und Praxis,‘ 10th Meeting of the 'Krickenbeck Circle' on International Investment Law, Cologne, 19-20 January 2018.

 

‘Regulating FDI in the EU Legal Framework - Discussant of Paper by Marise Cremona’, Conference on 'Foreign Direct Investment Control in the EU Framework', College d'Europe, Bruges, 2 February 2018.

 

‘Inspiration from Mega-Regional Trade Agreements’, THE RTA EXCHANGE DIALOGUE SERIES: RTA Dispute Settlement Provisions: Options for effective enforcement, International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD)/Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Geneva, 8 February 2018

 

‘Investment Arbitration, TTIP and NAFTA after the US/German Elections: Perspectives from both sides of the Atlantic in Times of Turmoil,’ Panel Participation, German-American Lawyer's Association Working Group Day, Goethe-University Frankfurt, 2 March 2018

 

‘International Investment Law and Constitutional Law: An Introduction’, Frankfurt Investment Law Workshop, Goethe-University Frankfurt, 9-10 March 2018

 

‘MFN Clauses as Bilateral Commitments to Multilateralism’, 4th Annual Conference on Investment Treaties, 'Treaty Shopping and Tools for Treaty Reform, OECD, Paris, 12 March 2018.

 

‘The obligations of International Organisations as aid donors,’ Critical Law Conference of the Kent Critical Law Society, 17 March 2018.

Vidigal, G.

‘Re-Imagining Communities: The WTO Appellate Body and the Resisted Communitization of WTO Law’, at the Symposium on Current Issues in International Law, to take place at the European University Institute in Florence on 11 May 2018.

 

‘Efficiency of ECHR remedies in cases concerning events related to the failed coup and the state of emergency in Turkey, ’ conference organized by the Observatory for Lawyers in Danger, Lawyers for Lawyers, European Association of Lawyers for Democracy & World Human Rights and German Bar Association (Deutscher Anwaltverein, DAV), the Law Society (UK), Berlin, 26 February 2018.

 

Round table on the use of armed drones, co-organized with PAX, the Nuhanovic Foundation and Amnesty International, with UvA, the Dutch Min of Foreign Affairs and Clingendael and others on 27 March 2018.

War Reparations Center and Syria Legal Network
Investigation and prosecution of Syrian war crimes by the international crimes units of the Dutch police and prosecutor, UvA, 23 March 2018.