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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 ...

Catherine (Kiki) Brölmann is the newly appointed PhD in Law programme director. The programme, which launched in 2018, was previously headed by Marija Bartl. The programme director’s responsibilities include ...

Computable trade journal has nominated the study by Jill Coster van Voorhout (Criminal Law) of the detection of human trafficking using bank data. Set up in collaboration with ABN AMRO and the Inspectorate of the ...

'International Law and its institutions have contributed to high levels of inequality within and between countries.' That is the main thrust of the inaugural lecture Ingo Venzke will deliver on 16 May 2019. He argues ...

Police and law enforcement agencies throughout Europe are taking an interest in Jill Coster van Voorhout's project using algorithms to detect human trafficking activities in bank data. This is a joint project by ABN ...

Prof. Göran Sluiter and his research team working on the project ‘The Outer limits of Secondary Liability for International Crimes and Serious Human Rights Violations’ are looking for a PhD candidate to start in ...

ACIL visiting fellow Hanna Bourgeois (KU Leuven) is pursuing fundamental research into legal issues related to the use of force and the protection of civilians with dedication and enthusiasm. During her stay at ACIL ...

As the UK’s representative to one of the ICC Assembly of States Parties, Shehzad Charania (now at Attorney General’s Office UK) learnt a lot about influencing, negotiating and the importance of timing and seizing the ...

Richard Harvey (Senior Legal Counsel, Greenpeace International) recently gave an ACIL-ICL guest lecture on litigation of environmental destruction. In this interview Richard speaks with us about his long career as ...

There has been widespread media attention for the research project using bank data to detect and tackle human trafficking in the past weeks. The project is a collaboration between ACIL / International Criminal Law ...

Hemi Mistry (University of Nottingham) joined ACIL as short-term visiting fellow from March to April 2019. During her stay she has been working on a paper that explores how insights from social and ritual theory may ...

Following the recent launch of a search engine using bank data to detect human trafficking, which UvA developed together with ABN Amro bank and the Dutch Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment, ACIL / ICL ...

Together with ABN Amro bank and the Dutch Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment, Jill Coster van Voorhout (ACIL & Criminal Law) initiated a search engine to detect human trafficking on the basis of bank data. The ...

Following his ACIL guest lecture on the 'Widening use of the state of emergency,' we interviewed Mark Klamberg (Stockholm University) about Roman model dictators versus current use of emergency powers and the wider ...

Yvonne Donders has been appointed by the Dutch government as Commissioner at the Netherlands Institute for Human Rights (NHRI). As of 1 July she will combine her new task with her work as ACIL researcher, Professor ...

On the occasion of the publication of the Universal Jurisdiction Annual Review 2019 the War Reparations Centre of the University of Amsterdam hosted a debate on the key findings of the report. Read more about this ...

The team of UvA’s students – Diana Carolina Realpe, William Alexander Smith-Burnand, Shahine Rezaei Kalantari, and Gintarė Matonytė – reached 5th place (among 44 participating teams) in this year’s Frankfurt ...