“Non-state Actors in International Relations and International Law”

Janne Elisabeth Nijman
Associate Professor of Public International Law, Amsterdam Center for International Law, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands


Part of the International Relations: Not Only Realism Seminar Series

Janne Nijman is an associate professor of public international law at the Department of European and International Law and a senior research fellow of the Amsterdam Center for International Law (ACIL). She participates in The International Rule of Law research program. She is one of two deans for Ph.D. students (Promovendi-decanen) of the Law School. She is the author of The Concept of International Legal Personality: an inquiry into the history and theory of international law (T.M.C. Asser Press, 2004), "Non-State Actors and the International Rule of Law: Revisiting the 'Realist Theory' of International Legal Personality," in M. Noortmann and C. Ryngaert (Eds), Non State Actors Dynamics in International Law.From Law-Takers to Law-Makers (Ashgate, 2010), and "The Future of the City and the International Law of the Future," in Law of the Future and the Future of Law, Sam Muller et al. (eds), (Torkel Opsahl EPublisher, 2011).

Janne Nijman studied law at the University of Leiden and the Université Robert Schuman in Strasbourg. She defended her doctoral thesis in public international law at Leiden University in 2004. Previously, she participated in the 1998 ACUNS/ASIL Summer Workshop "Globalization and Global Governance: Changing Roles for State and Non-State Actors" at Yale University. She is a Dutch delegate to the ILA International Committee on Non-State Actors and participates in the FWO funded Research Community on "Non-State Actors in International Law" based at the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies. Nijman teaches a mastercourse on the History and Theory of International Law and a bachelor course on Fundamental Rights.


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