Johanna Aleria Lorenzo, Assistant Professor in Public International Law, is soon to publish her monograph, entitled, 'International Financial Institutions and Sustainable Development: Lawmaking and Accountability'. The book unpacks the multilateral development banks' (MDBs) environmental and soci...

The academic law blog, Völkerrechtsblog, has published the second season of the podcast series on International Law and Technology, organized by Dr Andrea Leiter (University of Amsterdam) and Dr Delphine Dogot (Université Catholique Lille).

Collaboration between different institutes within a university isn’t always a given. Yet for researchers Klaas Eller (UvA) and Antoine Duval (the Asser Institute), working together at DigiChain was a natural step.

The Amsterdam Center for International Law (ACIL) is hiring two postdocs and a PhD researcher for our European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant project on the effectiveness of regional human rights regimes. The application deadline is 9 March and more information can be found below.

Our congratulations to Dr Plixavra Vogiatzoglou for the publication of her book that critically assesses legal frameworks involving the mass processing of personal data to predict and prevent crime through advanced profiling technologies.

LACMO is an autonomous research group within the Amsterdam Center for International Law that investigates the role of law, in particular public international law, in relation to a wide variety of military operations and security challenges. Below are some of their recent publications and media ap...

The Dutch have lived in peace for so long that war is hard to imagine. But war lurks if the Ministry of Defence doesn't start showing its teeth, warns Brigadier General Paul Ducheine. At the end of his 10-year term as a professor by special appointment in Military Law of Cyber Security and Cyber ...

Euronews, Europe's leading international news media, has profiled Dr Margaretha Wewerinke-Singh as one of 7 ‘unsung green heroes of 2024’. ‘’From world leaders to climate activists and even lawyers, the Euronews Green team has rounded up a list of individuals we believe deserve recognition for a...

Dr. Dilek Kurban joined the Amsterdam Centre for International Law as a Senior Researcher in January 2025 as the Principal Investigator on the ERC Starting Grant project “Beyond Compliance: Rethinking the Effectiveness of Regional Human Rights Regimes.” Her research focuses on the conditions unde...

The paper written by UvA law academics, Professor Ingo Venzke and Dr Laurens Ankersmit, flanks initiatives to ban fossil advertising in the Netherlands—a policy that has gained momentum in the Dutch Parliament. Drs Venzke and Ankersmit first wrote the paper in January 2024 as a response to the th...

On 18 November, over 100 staff and students attended the event on “The European Union and Palestine: Legal Obligations, Evolving Positions, and Humanitarian Dimensions”. It was an important moment of academic debate and exchange between legal scholars, practitioners and political scientists on th...

Regional human rights systems ought to protect citizens from state violence and legal oppression. But is it effective in doing so? Dilek Kurban calls for ‘drastic changes’. She received an ERC Starting grant to research how regional human rights regimes can be more effective. ‘It’s important not ...

Janne Nijman, Professor of History and Theory of International Law at the University of Amsterdam and member of ACIL, is also a council member of The Advisory Council on International Affairs (AIV). This is an independent body which advises the Dutch government and parliament on foreign policy. O...

Congratulations to Catherine (Kiki) Brölmann on her appointment to the chair of Public International Law. Kiki brings to the Chair extensive research and teaching experience, gained in a long-term affiliation with UvA and in many other collaborations and international visiting positions.

When a state discharges waste into a flowing river, it also creates an ecological problem in surrounding countries. ‘A shared view of the world pays off,’ says professor Catherine Brölmann.

LACMO is an autonomous research group within the Amsterdam Center for International Law that investigates the role of law, in particular public international law, in relation to a wide variety of military operations and security challenges. Below are some of their recent publications and media ap...

When a State assists another actor in the commission of international crimes or serious human rights violations, what does this mean for the assisting State’s responsibility under international law? What types of obligations do assisting States have, especially if the victim is in another country...

Congratulations to Marjoleine Zieck, Professor of International Refugee Law, for her timely new book focusing on the resettlement of refugees. ''Resettlement as Protection'' has just been published and the book argues that resettlement has not been integrated in international refugee law and the ...

Dr Baine Kerr joined the Amsterdam Centre for International Law as a postdoctoral researcher in September 2024 on the project Translating Climate Science for International Law. His research focuses on how evidentiary standards can and should be used to assess the admissibility and credibility of ...

Iris Richer, a PhD researcher from the Université Laval (Québec, Canada), has joined the Amsterdam Centre for International Law as a visiting research fellow. Her research interests concern international human rights law and digital technologies.