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A recent paper by ACIL researchers Stephan W. Schill and Geraldo Vidigal is one of four papers referred to by the Secretariat of UNCITRAL to base their Note on the reform of Investor-State Dispute Settlement.

Isabel Feichtner (University of Würzburg) has been following the international negotiations on deep seabed mining from an international law and political economy perspective for several years. In this interview she ...

Marc Tiernan joined ACIL and the department of Criminal Law as a PhD Candidate in December 2019. His research forms part of a broader project on “The Outer Limits of Secondary Liability for International Crimes and ...

UvA / Asser / ACIL / LACMO members Berenice Boutin, Terry Gill and Tom van Engers have been awarded an NWO grant for their four-year research project ‘Agency and Compliance by Design in Military AI Technologies.’ ...

ACIL / International Criminal Law researcher Jill Coster van Voorhout won the Amsterdam Science & Innovation Award 2019 (category Alpha/Gamma) for her project to identify human trafficking activities in bank data. ...

Invited by the Permanent Mission of Brazil at the UN, ACIL researchers André Nollkaemper and Natasa Nedeski presented the Guiding Principles on Shared Responsibility in International Law to the General Assembly of ...

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 ...