User:JdA IntLaw/sandbox

Jean d'Aspremont is an international law expert and a legal scholar. He writes extensively on general international law and international legal theory. He has published half a dozen of books and edited volumes as well as 70 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on questions of international law and international legal theory. He currently is Professor of Public International Law at the University of Manchester and Professor of International Legal Theory at the University of Amsterdam.

Current affiliation

Prof. Jean d'Aspremont has been Chair of Public International Law at the University of Manchester since 1 January 2013 and Chair of International Legal Theory at the University of Amsterdam since 1 September 2014. He is co-director of the Manchester International Law Centre and director of the Postgraduate programmes in international law at the University of Manchester.

Current research

His areas of research include most major subjects of general Public International Law and, in particular, questions pertaining to Statehood, Sources of International Law, State Responsibility, the Law of International Organizations, International Dispute Settlement, the Law of Armed Conflicts, International Humanitarian Law and International Legal Theory. His recent work focuses on the theory of sources, the role of formalism and the politics of deformalization in international law. He also explores the tensions between formalistic and critical approaches to international law as well as the variations between anglo-american and continental traditions of international law. He is currently developing a major database of documents on international organizations with Oxford University Press.

Early life and affiliations

He was Editor-in-Chief of the Leiden Journal of International Law (2011-2013). He acted as counsel in proceedings before the International Court of Justice in 2010 in the framework of the advisory proceedings on Accordance with international law of the unilateral declaration of independence in respect of Kosovo (Request for Advisory Opinion). He was Rapporteur of the ILA Committee on non-state actors. He previously was Associate Professor of International Law at the University of Amsterdam. He also was Adjunct Director of the Amsterdam Research Institute for Legal Studies (ARILS). He used to be Guest Professor at the University of Louvain as well as the University of Lille. Before moving to Amsterdam, he was Assistant Professor of International Law at the University of Leiden and Director of the LL.M. in Public International Law. He received his LL.M. from the University of Cambridge and his Ph.D. from the University of Louvain. In 2005-06, he was a Global Research Fellow at New York University (NYU), affiliated with the Institute of International Law and Justice (IILJ). He holds a PhD from the University of Louvain as well as a LLM from the University of Cambridge.

His early research focused on Statehood in international law as well as democracy in international law and led to the publication of a monograph on the status of non-democratic states in international law. He also kept much interest for questions of sources of international law and responsibility which he subsequently made very central questions in his research agenda.

Practice and consultancy

He has been advising governments, law firms and NGOs on questions of international law. He appeared before the Constitutional Assembly of Tunisia. He was counsel in proceedings before the International Court of Justice. He regularly gives interviews to international media (AFP, BBC, etc).

Representative publications - Formalism and the Sources of International Law. A Theory of the Ascertainment of Legal Rules (Oxford University Press, 2011) (Monograph) - L'Etat non démocratique en droit international. Etude critique du droit international positif et de la pratique contemporaine (Pedone, 2008) (Monograph) - Droit international humanitaire (Pedone, 2011) (Monograph co-authored with Jérôme de Hemptinne) - Participants in the International Legal System: Multiple Perspectives on Non-State Actors in International Law (Routledge, 2011) (edited volume) - International Legal Positivism in a Post-Modern World (Cambridge University Press, 2014) (co-edited with Jörg Kammerhofer) - The Oxford Handbook on the Sources of International Law (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2017) (with Samantha Besson) - The Concepts of International Law (Edward Elgar, forthcoming 2015) (with Sahib Singh)

He has published more than 70 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters. Many of these articles are available in open access. SSRN Author Page for open access publications: http://www.ssrn.com/author=736816

External references

Jean d'Aspremont's personal webpage at the University of Manchester http://www.manchester.ac.uk/research/Jean.daspremont/personaldetails Jean d'Aspremont's personal webpage at the University of Amsterdam http://www.uva.nl/over-de-uva/organisatie/medewerkers/content/a/s/j.daspremont/j.d--aspremont.html E-lectures and interviews https://www.youtube.com/user/JdAIntLaw