PhD Research at ACIL

Junior researchers 'The International Rule of Law'

1. Teresa Vieira da Silva Cabrita
   The European Union as a Contributor to the Development of International Law: The Case of Area of Freedom, Security and Justice Policies
2. Jackson Oldfield
   Smuggling in international law
3. Lara Talsma
   The UN Women, Peace and Security Agenda in the EU’s external action: a critical legal analysis
4. Roman Teshome
   The  Legal Protection  of  People  Affected  by  Development-induced Displacement:  Towards  a  Comprehensive  Human  Rights  Framework
5. Wim Zimmermann
   Reputation and the Dynamics of Interpretation in International Law
6. Debadatta Bose

   Making global value chains accountable for human rights abuses

Junior Researchers Rethinking SLIC project

Three of ACIL's PhD students are jointly working on Prof. Göran Sluiter's Rethinking SLIC project:

1. Jindan-Karena Mann
   Secondary tort liability for international crimes and serious human rights violations
2. Joëlle Trampert
   Secondary state liability for international crimes and serious human rights violations
3. Marc Tiernan
   Secondary criminal liability for international crimes and serious human rights violations

Junior researchers (external)

1. Heather Bray
   Historical analysis of private-public arbitration commissions as global regulatory governance mechanisms
2. Yu Chen
   Responsibility of multilateral development banks (MDBs) in relation to environmental effects of their development financing
3. Selman Aksunger
   The historical contextualization of the Lotus case and its contribution to the development and practice of international law
4. Amr Arafa
   Reform of Egypt Foreign Direct Investment Programme
5. Daley Birkett
   The relationship between the International Criminal Court and United Nations Security Council sanctions regimes with respect to asset freezing
6. Nicolò Bussolati
   Delocalizing the revolution: cyber political 'hacktivism' and implications for criminal law
7. Evelyn Campos Sanchez
   Remedies in cases of aggravated international responsibility
8. Horia Ciurtin
   XYZ
9. Kate Clark
   Responsibility for Reparations for conflict-related harm to civilians in international law
10. Tom Diederen
    The right to protest at sea
11. Vladislav Djanic
    Beyond Dispute Resolution: A History of Governance through Private-Public Arbitration
12. Christian Drews
    XYZ
13. Cleo Hoetmer
    Strafbaarstelling van grensoverschrijdende mensenhandel (uitbuiting)
14. Mark Klein
    ClimaHarmonization ahead! The road to common evidentiary standards in European criminal procedure
15. James Lin
    XYZ
16. Miguel Lopez Martinez
    Prioritizing Reparations for Massive and Gross Violations under International Law. A case study on the Implementation of the Legal Framework for Reparations in Colombia
17. Nicolai von Maltitz
    The Documentation of Historical Facts in the Judgments of the International Criminal Court
18. Maiko Meguro
    Creation of Legal Bindingness in International Law: Whose Voice Matters?
19. Ivan Mugga
    How can the national implementation of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change in Uganda be made consistent with the long-term objective in Article 2 and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development?
20. Anne van Mulligen 
    The normativity of international law
21. Shikegi Obi
    Legitimate  Expectations in Investment Law – When a host State’s modification of its legal framework constitutes a treaty violation: A comparative approach
22. Sadie O'Mahoney
    To what extent is the right to food, or should the right to food be, a justiciable right in Malawi?
23. Pinar Palabiyik
    Rethinking the Socio-Economic and Cultural Dimensions of Humanitarian Crises in International Criminal Law
24. Evelien van Roemburg
    Sixty years of exclusion: a problematic marriage of international refugee law and criminal law
25. Kenneth Sithebe
    The implications of fair trial standards on Article 46A of the Malabo Protocol for the prosecution and trial of international and transnational crimes in Africa
26. Kalliopi Skourtou
    Transnational Corporations as Human Rights-Holders. A Critical Historical Analysis of International Law-Making
27. Claire Smith (Kevin)
    XYZ
28. Sean Stephenson
    Adherence, Divergence and Creation: The Application of Remedies in International Investment Law by International Tribunals
29. Stanislas Talontsi
    Mechanisms to enforce the cooperation of States in the arrest and surrender to the ICC within the ICC, the ASP and the UN SC
30. Vessela Terzieva
    Victims of International Crimes in Domestic Proceedings: a Study on the Rights to Justice, Reparation, and Truth
31. Katrine Tvede
    On the grid: patterns of norm diffusion in international arbitration
32. Vincent Vleugel
    The use of the margin of appreciation doctrine in the UN human rights treaty body system
33. William Worster
    A New Legal Framework for Diplomatic Assurances
34. Svetlana Yakovleva
    Cross-border data flows from international trade and EU data protection perspective
35. Hasan Yucel
    Responsibility of Transnational Corporations for Environmental Crimes

External Junior Researchers 'The Role of Law in Armed Conflict and Peace Operations'

1. Ardan Folwaij
   The legality of military human performance in the military domain
2. Rogier Bartels
   The legal regime of transnational armed conflicts under international humanitarian law
3. Raïssa van den Essen
   Targeting in Cyber Warfare: The Triangular Relation Between the Notions of ‘Attack’ (49 API), ‘Military Objectives’ (52 API) and ‘Collateral Damage’ (57 API) in Cyber Targeting Decisions
4. Bas van Hoek
   XYZ
5. Jonathan Kwik
   Legal obligations attached to the incorporation of artificial intelligence into weapon systems under international humanitarian law
6. Peter Pijpers
   Influencing political systems in cyberspace: on the application of public international law during influence operations in a situation below the threshold of the use of force
7. Mark Roorda
   Unmanned weapon systems in military operations. An interdisciplinary normative framework: combining military operational, legal and ethical aspects in bounding the use of unmanned weapon systems in the targeting process