ACIL welcomes a number of new staff members, visiting researchers and new PhD candidates this autumn.

Ashley Deeks, E. James Kelly, Jr.-Class of 1965 Research Professor at the University of Virginia Law School has joined ACIL as a visiting researcher. During her stay, she will be researching the future role of artificial intelligence tools in international law creation and enforcement.

In July, Nataša Nedeski joined the ACIL as Assistant Professor of Public International Law. Nataša previously defended her PhD thesis on shared obligations in international law at the ACIL and has experience teaching at the University of Amsterdam and Utrecht University.

In September, ACIL welcomed Joëlle Trampert, Sean Shun Ming Yau, Jindan-Karena (“Nina”) Mann, Lara Talsma and Roman Teshome as PhD candidates. Joëlle, Sean and Nina are working as part of the research project “The Outer Limits of Secondary Liability for International Crimes and Serious Human Rights Violations” directed by Goran Sluiter, and funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), by means of a VICI-grant. Lara is the Clinical Lecturer / Coordinator of the Amsterdam Law Clinic and a PhD Candidate at ACIL and ACELG, working on a research project in Business and Human Rights, Roman's research focusses on development-induced displacement. Emma Rengers began as a junior researcher, focussing on the right to revolution under international human rights law.

Also in September, ACIL welcomed three visiting researchers: Katelyn Cioffi, who is a Fulbright scholar working on the jurisprudence and institutional development of international courts and tribunals, with a particular focus on the interests of non-state actors and moments of historical transition, Maxim Usynin, who is investigating how international investment law (IIL) responds to different types of investor behavior,  and Mohammad Hadi Zakerhossein, who is researching into the Command Responsibility at the International Criminal Court: From Theory to Practice.

New external PhD candidates have also joined ACIL. Amr Arafa Hassan, James Lin, Claire Smith, Daley Birkett and Pinar Palabiyik. Their research interests cover several aspects of international criminal law and foreign direct investment.

In October, ACIL will also welcome Vid Prislan as a new postdoctorial researcher at the center.

Yvonne Donders has been appointed as Member of the International Law Association (ILA) Committee on Participation in Global Cultural Heritage Governance, which aims, amongst other areas, at exploring and substantiating the specific forms of participation in relation to cultural heritage governance within existing international law instruments.

Ingo Venzke has been appointed Professor of International Law and Social Justice as of 1 July 2018. Ingo, who is also Director of the Amsterdam Center for International Law, will focus his research and teaching on the connection between International Law and social inequality (both between and within states). Ingo has also been appointed to the Advisory Board of the WZB (Berlin). The Berlin Social Science Centre (WZB) 'conducts basic research with a focus on problems of modern societies in a globalized world.’ It draws together 150 scientists from various disciplines, mainly from sociology, political science, economics, and law. The Advisory Board meets twice per year and advises the Board of Trustees on research policy. Tenure is for four years.

Denis Abels has been appointed Professor of Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure, with a special focus on penal law. His research will address the establishment of standards by a multitude of international supervisory and law-making institutions and the needs and possibilities for achieving more synergy between them. In addition, he will examine developments as to the bindingness of international penal norms and how these developments relate to the effectiveness of international and European penal cooperation. 

Stephan Schill has assumed the role of General Editor ICCA Publications as of September 2018. The ICCA is a worldwide nongovernmental organization devoted to promoting the use and improving the processes of arbitration, conciliation and other forms of resolving international commercial disputes.

Bartels, R.
A Fine Line between Protection and Humanisation: The Interplay between the Scope of Application of International Humanitarian Law and Jurisdiction Over Alleged War Crimes Under International Criminal Law
Amsterdam Law School Research Paper No. 2018-17; Amsterdam Center for International Law No. 2018-03.

Bartels, R.
The Interplay between International Human Rights Law and International Humanitarian Law During International Criminal Trials
Amsterdam Law School Research Paper No. 2018-19; Amsterdam Center for International Law No. 2018-05.

Bartels, R.
When Do Terrorist Organisations Qualify as 'Parties to an Armed Conflict' Under International Humanitarian Law?
Amsterdam Law School Research Paper No. 2018-20; Amsterdam Center for International Law No. 2018-06.

Bartels, R.
The Relationship between International Humanitarian Law and the Notion of State Sovereignty
Amsterdam Law School Research Paper No. 2018-18; Amsterdam Center for International Law No. 2018-04.

Donders, Y.
UNESCO’s Communications Procedure on Human Rights
Amsterdam Law School Research Paper No. 2018-23; Amsterdam Center for International Law No. 2018-08

Venzke, I.
The Practice of Interpretation in International Law: Strategies of Critique
Amsterdam Law School Research Paper No. 2018-22; Amsterdam Center for International Law No. 2018-07

Abels, D.
Detained Abroad - Assisting Dutch Nationals in Foreign Detention. Sancties : Tijdschrift over Straffen en Maatregelen, (27), 169-173.

Abels, D., Benschop, W. J., Blom, T., Coster van Voorhout, J. E. B., Korf, D. J., & Vriend, K. C. J. (2018).
Evaluatie Wet OM-afdoening. Amsterdam: Rozenberg Publishers (267 pp)

Abels, D.
OM-afdoening en verschillende situaties van niet-ontvankelijkheid. Delikt en Delinkwent, 48(3), 231-242.

Abels, D.
Vrijheidsstraf: Rubriek Behandelen en straffen. Delikt en Delinkwent, 2018(38), 495-498.

Brölmann, C.
‘Sustainable Development Goal 6 as a Game Changer for International Water Law’, ESIL Reflection Vol. 7, Issue 5, 2018

Donder, Y.
“UNESCO and Human Rights”, Gerd Oberleitner (ed.) International Human Rights. Institutions, Tribunals and Courts (International Human Rights Series, Springer, June 2018)

Heri, C.

Consultant Editor, with Eds. Daniel Moeckli and Helen Keller, The Human Rights Covenants at 50: Their Past, Present, and Future, OUP 2018.

Wherefore Art Thou? Towards a Public Interest-Based Justification of International Investment Law, 33 ICSID Review-Foreign Investment Law Journal 29-55.

Schill, S.W., & Djanic, V.
International Investment Law and Community Interests, in: E. Benvenisti and G. Nolte (eds), Community Interests Across International Law (Oxford University Press, 2018) 221-248.

Venzke, I.
Book Review: Oisin Suttle. Distributive Justice and World Trade Law: A Political Theory of International Trade Regulation, Cambridge, 2018, 19(4) Journal of World Investment and Trade Law 757 –763 (2018).   

Venzke, I.
International Courts’ de facto Authority and its Justification, in International Court Authority 301-402 (Karen Alter, Laurence Helfer and Mikael Rask Madsen eds, Oxford University Press 2018)    

Ten Legal Questions: the war in Syria explained in the framework of international law (English and Arabic)

Abels, D.
Lecture on recent developments in criminal (sanctioning) law for a group of approx. 100 Dutch public prosecutors, Haarlem, 9 July 2018

Brölmann, C. and Heller, K.
Co-organizers of workshop Specially-Affected States & International Organizations: Rising Actors in the Formation & Identification of Customary International Law, ACIL-UvA, 5 June 2018.

Brölmann, C.
Panel Chair in Contingency in the Course of International Law: How International Law Could Have Been ACIL Conference, UvA, 14-16 June 2018.

Brölmann, C.
Presentation – “‘Equitable access to […] water for all’ - SDG6 as an alternative normative framework to International Water Law” in Conference Critical Perspectives on Governance by Sustainable Development Goals: Water, Food and Climate UvA CSDS (25-26 June), 26 June 2018. 

Donders, Y.

“Protection and Promotion of Cultural Heritage and Human Rights Through International Treaties: Two Worlds of Difference?”, presentation at the workshop Towards inclusive and sustainable protection of traditional cultural expressions, IViR Amsterdam, 8 June 2018

Opening Lecture: “Cultural Heritage and Human Rights in International Law: Living Apart Together?”, Summer School on Heritage Destruction, Human Rights and International Law, Leiden University, The Hague, 27 August 2018

“Cultural Rights”, presentation at the Intergovernmental Working Group on the Effective Implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action (16th session), Item 9: consideration of the elaboration of a draft United Nations Declaration on the promotion and full respect of human rights of people of African descent, Geneva, 28 August 2018

Heri, C.
'The Emergence of Peasant Rights: Tracing the Social Function of Property to 1948', presentation at the Association of Human Rights Institutes (AHRI), Annual Conference on Renewing Rights in Times of Transition: 70 Years of the Universal Declaration of Human Right,  Edinburgh, 6-8 September

“Programming for a World and Constituted Expertise: The Case of Climate Change” at IGLP: The Conference 2018, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, 2 June 2018

Nijman, J.E.

'Cities at the United Nations: where global governance and urban governance shape each other', paper presented at the Panel 'Cities at the Frontiers of International Law and Global Governance', at the ILA 2018 Conference 'Developing International Law in Challenging Times', 21 August 2018, Sydney, Australia.

Co-Chair with Prof. Helmut Aust (FU, Berlin), Inaugural Closed Working Session of the ILA Study Group on 'The Role of Cities in International Law', ILA 2018 Conference 'Developing International Law in Challenging Times', August 19-24, 2018, Sydney, Australia.

The Use of Commercial Arbitration Rules in Investment Treaty Disputes, Discussant on PhD presentation by Joel Dahlquist, Uppsala University, 4 June 2018

The (Uncertain) Future of Investment Protection and ISDS in Europe - Rountable Discussion on the Implications of the CJEU's Achmea Judgment, International Law Association Swedish Branch, Stockholm, 5 June 2018

International Investment Law and Community Interests: Towards a Public Interest-Based Rationale for Protecting Foreign Investors under International Investment Agreements, Stockholm University, 5 June 2018

The Consequences of the CJEU's Achmea Judgment for Investment Treaty Arbitration, Dutch Arbitration Association - Investment Arbitration Committee, Oxford Style Debate and Roundtable Participation, Amsterdam, 15 June 2018

Die Zukunft der Investor-Staat-Streitbeilegung nach dem EuGH-Urteil in der Rechtssache Achmea (C-284/16 vom 6. März 2018), International Law Association - German Branch, University of Frankfurt, 22 June 2018

W(h)ither ISDS? The Impact of Achmea on Pending Arbitrations under Member States' BITs and the Energy Charter Treaty, Amsterdam Center for International Law/International Council for Commercial Arbitration-Joint Colloquium, Introduction and Moderation, Amsterdam, 26 June 2018

Protection of Foreign Investments in Europe - Perspectives and Solutions, Panel Participation, International Investment Law Centre Cologne, Cologne, 5 July 2018

General and Theoretical Aspects of Investment Law, Session Chair, Society of International Economic Law Biennial Conference, Washington, DC, 12 July 2018