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In September 2019, Kalliopi Ioanna Skourtou started her PhD research at the Amsterdam Centre for International Law. Her PhD research is entitled “Transnational Corporations as Human Rights-Holders. A Critical ...

Jill Coster van Voorhout's project to detect human trafficking activities in big bank data was awarded the Dutch Computable Award 2019. Jill developed the project together with ABN Amro bank and the Dutch Ministry of ...

After their SGEL lecture, Grietje Baars (City, University of London) speaks to us about the long-standing interrelation between international law and (the history of) corporations and their outlook on a societies ...

Debadatta Bose is a PhD candidate at ACIL and CSECL, operating within the Sustainable Global Economic Law project, which is a joint initiative of ACIL, ACELG and CSECL. Debadatta’s research mainly looks into the ...

ACIL visiting fellow Luísa Netto (Catholic University of Minas Gerais) is a public attorney for the State of Minas Gerais, in Brazil, where she also holds a position as Public Law Professor at the Catholic University ...

ACIl visiting fellow Qing Yan, PhD canidate at Tsinghua University, is researching the advisory function of international courts and tribunals.

ACIL visiting fellow Niccolò Zugliani, PhD candidate at the University of Verona, is researching state sovereignty in the international investment regime.

Bahram Einolahy Masoum, PhD candidate at the University of Tehran, joined ACIL as a visiting fellow to work on the international personality of Armed Non-state Actors under the guidance of Professor Terry Gill.

Selman Aksünger started as external PhD candidate at ACIL in September 2019. He will be working on the historical contextualization of the Lotus case and its contribution to the development and practice of ...

Sjors Polm recently started as a student of the ACIL research master programme. He is the last student to take the programme before it will be discontinued in 2022.

Competing against international contributors, Geraldo Vidigal, ACIL Researcher and Assistant Professor, has had his case on Food Safety Imports and Regional Trade Agreements selected for the global 2019 WTO Moot ...

Terry Gill, UvA professor of military law and until 1 July 2019 also professor of military law at the Netherlands Defence Academy (NLDA) was awarded the royal decoration of “Officer of the Order of Orange Nassau” on ...

The inaugural conference on a new research project to study the governance of international courts and tribunals took place at Leiden Law School on September 20 and 21. The conference was co-organised by Niels ...

In the first episode of a new podcast series on Forensic Finance, ACIL-ICL researcher Jill Coster van Voorhout, together with her project partner Raila Abas (ABN Amro) speak in detail about their project to detect ...

Following his guest lecture on "The Economic Significance of Laws Relating to Employment Protection and Different Forms of Employment", Simon Deakin (University of Cambridge) speaks to us about the algorithmic nature ...

Jelle van Haaster is a cyber operations researcher at the Ministry of Defence, received the accolade Civil Servant of the Year in 2018, and will be conferred a PhD at the faculty on 5 July 2019 for his research into ...

The Amsterdam Law School of the University of Amsterdam has an opening for a PhD position. The PhD project will be focusing on interactions between two of the three sub-disciplines of European Private Law, European ...

Christiaan Baardman (Senior Judge at the Court of Appeal The Hague) is one of the Dutch, and perhaps international, pioneers in judging cybercrime. In this interview he talks about the distinguishing characteristics ...

Following her guest lecture on 'The Future of International Law in an Age of Nationalist Populism,' Karen J Alter speaks to us about redundancy, regime complexity and universality in international law. She also ...

Ruth Dukes (University of Glasgow) speaks to us about the historical, political, economic and societal aspects of labour law and the rapidly developing field of 'Economic Sociology of Labour Law.' She also explains ...