Property and Empire - University of Melbourne

International Law and Empire
4-6 October 2011
University of Helsinki
Biographies
Olivier Barsalou (Law, NYU)
Olivier Barsalou is a JSD Candidate at NYU School of Law. He studied at the
Université du Québec à Montréal (Canada) where he earned a B.A. (2005) in
International Law and International Relations and an LL.M. (2007) in International
Law. In 2007-2008, he came to New York University to undertake a LL.M. in
international legal studies. His doctoral dissertation traces the genealogy of the right
to self-determination in international law. He is the author of La guerre froide, les
États-Unis et la genèse de la Déclaration universelle des droits de l’Homme, 1945-
1948 (forthcoming, Bruylant).
Anthony Carty (Law, Hong Kong)
Anthony Carty is the holder of the Sir Y K Pao Chair in Public Law at the Faculty of
Law of the University of Hong Kong, presently on leave of absence as the Chair of
Public Law from the University of Aberdeen. Professor Carty studied law at Queen's
University Belfast, London, and Cambridge. He has a long and sustained interest in
public international law, international legal history and the history of legal ideas.
Known as a critical voice in the discipline, Professor Carty has approached the study
of international law from a sociological, philosophical, historical, cultural and
practical perspective. He has written on European, German, French, and British
perspectives of international law as well as across autonomous regions inside states
such as Scotland and the Basque country. Carty is also interested in the role of
lawyers in foreign policy and is about to complete a study on the legal advisers to the
British Foreign Office covering the period from 1945 to 1961.
Carty‟s relevant publications include: Philosophy of International Law (Edinburgh
University Press, 2007), The Decay Of International Law: A Reappraisal Of The
Limits Of Legal Imagination In International Affairs (Palgrave Macmillan, 1986).
Articles or book chapters include, "The Evolution of International Legal Scholarship
in Germany during the Kaiserreich and the Weimarer Republic (1871-1933)",
German Yearbook of International Law, 2008; "The Yearning for Unity and the
Eternal Return of the Tower of Babel", European Journal of Legal Studies, 2007;
"State and Nation in the International Tradition: a History of French-German
Antagonisms and Possible Responses in the Spanish late Medieval Tradition", East
Asian and European Perspectives in the History of International Law, 2004;
"Convergences and Divergences in European International Law Traditions,"
European Journal of International Law, 2000; "Sovereignty in International Law: a
Concept of Eternal Return" in Sovereignty, 1998; "Critical International Law, Recent
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Trends in the Theory of International Law", European Journal of International Law,
1991.
Ayça Çubukçu (Social Studies, Harvard University)
Ayça Çubukçu teaches on the history of social and political theory, human rights, and
international law as a Lecturer on Social Studies at Harvard University. Previously,
she was a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence (2009-
2010), and a Postdoctoral Scholar with the Committee on Global Thought at
Columbia University (2007-2009), where she designed and taught a graduate level
seminar, “The Law of Violence.” Çubukçu's publications include "On Cosmopolitan
Occupations: the Case of the World Tribunal on Iraq" in Interventions: International
Journal of Postcolonial Studies (2011), and "Few Prime Fragments for a Radical
Title" in the journal of critical theory and philosophy, Parallax (2010). Her book
manuscript, "Humanity Must Be Defended": Paradoxes of A Democratic Desire, is
currently under revision. Ayça Çubukçu holds a Ph.D. with Distinction (2008) from
the Department of Anthropology at Columbia University and a B.A. in Government
with Distinction in All Subjects (2001) from Cornell University.
Ignacio de la Rasilla (Law, European University Institute)
Dr Ignacio de la Rasilla del Moral is a Post-Doctoral Max Weber Fellow in Law in
2011 at European University Institute in Florence where he also collaborates with the
EUI‟s Global Governance Program. He holds degrees from Harvard Law School
(LLM) the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (MA & PhD)
and University Complutense of Madrid (LLB). He has held positions as Fellow in
Global Governance, Law and Social Thought and Visiting Scholar in International
Studies at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University as well
as Fellow of the Royal Complutense College at Harvard University and Summer
Academic Fellow of Harvard Law School. He has been Visiting Researcher at the
Institute for Global Law and Policy and the European Law Research Center both at
Harvard. He is a Research Associate of the Centre for the Study and Research of
International Law (CERDIN) at the University Paris I (Pantheon-Sorbonne) and
member of the Spanish History of International Law Research project of the Spanish
Ministry of Innovation and Science and the University of Zaragoza.
Adriana Di Stefano (Law, Catania)
Adriana Di Stefano is a tenured researcher in international law at the University of
Catania Law School. Lawyer in Italy, research fellow in International Human Rights
Law and IHL and senior lecturer in European Union Law, since 2003 she has been
working as teaching and research assistant at the Centre of Research on International
Organizations, CRIO Workshop, University of Catania (main research topic on
occupied territories‟ administration, international organization and HRL). Dr Di
Stefano graduated in Law cum laude at the same University (2001) and obtained a
Ph.D. in Political Philosophy and Human Rights from the Faculty of Political
Sciences (2005). From 2002 to 2009 she has been involved in research activities in
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human rights law and international humanitarian law in Florence, Geneva, Castellon,
Valencia, Paris, The Hague, Dakar, Boston, Amsterdam (ACIL 2009 fall semester
visiting scholar, research project on “The Relationship between Human Rights
Regimes and Belligerent Occupation. The Case of Iraq”), Tel Aviv (2010 spring term
visiting fellow at the Cegla Center of TAU, research program focusing on
effectiveness of local remedies and denial of justice in the context of military
occupation regimes and of post-conflict UN-led transitions). She is currently
finalizing a research project on the effectiveness of local remedies in international
human rights regimes.
Maria Drakopoulou (Law, Kent)
Maria Drakopoulou, a Reader in Law at Kent Law School (KLS), the University of
Kent, UK, became an academic after practicing for eleven years as a criminal barrister
in Athens, Greece. She has held research fellowships at the European University
Institute in Florence and at Griffith/Queensland Law Schools, Brisbane (2003, 2009),
and attended the University of Helsinki Law School in 2005 as academic invitee.
She acts as an external reviewer for the Law Department group of the Centre for
Gender Studies at the University of Umeå, Sweden, is a founding member and
editorial group member of the journal Feminist Legal Studies, for which she has
performed various roles, and is currently the Director of Postgraduate Research at
KLS. Her main areas of research interest are Feminist Theory and Jurisprudence,
Legal Theory and Philosophy, Roman Law and Legal History. She is currently
working on a book on the genealogy of feminist critique in law.
Luis Eslava (Law, Melbourne)
Luis Eslava is a Senior Fellow (Melbourne Law Masters) and PhD Candidate at the
Institute for International Law and the Humanities, Melbourne Law School. During
2011-2012, Luis is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for
Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, Germany. His research
interests are located at the intersection between International Law, Development and
Global Governance. In particular, his fieldwork and writing explore the
anthropological, political and economic dimensions of today‟s international normative
project and the lived experience of development in the Third World.
Mónica Garcia-Salmones (Law, Helsinki)
Mónica García-Salmones is a Research Fellow at the Erik Castrén of International
Law and Human Rights. She is now finalising her doctoral dissertation on the history
of positivist international law. Her research interests include international legal
theories, positivism (Thomas Hobbes and Hans Kelsen), economic-positivism, legal
philosophy, and 19th and 20th century history of international law. Together with
Luis Eslava, she contributed to the last volume of the Select Proceedings of the
European Society of International Law (2010) with an article entitled „Jurisdictional
Colonization in the Spanish and British Empires: Some Reflections on a Global
Public Order and the Sacred‟.
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Marcus Gunneflo (Law, Lund)
Markus Gunneflo is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Law, Lund University,
Sweden. He is writing his doctoral dissertation about American and Israeli targeted
killings touching upon aspects of international law such as human rights and
humanitarian law as well as legal and political theory.
Stephen Hopgood (International Relations, SOAS)
Dr Stephen Hopgood is Reader in International Relations at the School of Oriental
and African Studies, University of London and co-Director of the Centre for the
International Politics of Conflict, Rights and Justice (CCRJ) at SOAS. His
publications include Keepers of the Flame: Understanding Amnesty International
(Cornell University Press, 2006), „Saying „no‟ to Wal-Mart? Money and morality in
professional humanitarianism‟, chapter in Michael Barnett and Thomas G Weiss
(eds.) Humanitarianism in Question: Politics, Power, Ethics (Ithaca: Cornell
University Press, 2008), and „Moral authority, modernity and the politics of the
sacred,‟ European Journal of International Relations, 15/2, 2009. He is currently the
holder of a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship under the title „Empire of the
International‟.
Martti Koskenniemi (Law, Helsinki)
Martti Koskenniemi is Academy Professor (2012-2016) with the University of
Helsinki and Arthur Goodhart Professor of Legal Science, University of Cambridge
(2008-2009). He is also Hauser Global Professor of law at New York University
School of Law. He has been a member of the UN International Law Commission
(2002-2006) and Judge at the Administrative Tribunal of the Asian Development
Bank (1997-2002). In 1978-1994 he was a member of the Finnish Ministry for
Foreign Affairs. He is Counsellor of the American Society of International Law and
member of the Institut de droit international.
Philip Lorenz (English, Cornell)
Philip Lorenz received his Ph.D. from New York University. Before joining the
English department at Cornell, he was a Bradley Visiting Assistant Professor in
the Honors College at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. His research focuses
primarily on English and Spanish literature and drama of the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries, and his areas of interest include Theories of Sovereignty,
Political Theology, Psychoanalysis, Poetics and Theory, and Philosophy. He is
currently completing his first book, The Tears of Sovereignty: Perspectives of Power
in Renaissance Drama (under contract with Fordham University Press).
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Alejandro Lorite Escorihuela (Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies)
Alejandro Lorite Escorihuela is currently a Fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for
Advanced Studies, on a project entitled "The Global Governance of Animal Death".
He has taught international law courses at the American University in Cairo, the
University of Helsinki, Sciences Po Paris, Addis Ababa University, the Université du
Québec in Montréal, Tufts University and Brandeis University. He studied at the
University of Geneva, the Graduate Institute of International Studies, and Harvard
Law School.
Doreen Lustig (Law, NYU)
Doreen Lustig is a JSD Candidate and IILJ Graduate Scholar at NYU Law School.
She received the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship from the History Department at
Columbia University this year and will be a Cegla fellow at Tel Aviv University in
the academic year of 2011-2012. Ms. Lustig completed her LLM in the LLM-JSD
program of International Legal Studies as a Hauser scholar in 2006. She received
both her LLB and a Bachelor's degree in Sociology and Anthropology from Tel Aviv
University. Subsequent to her Bachelor's studies she was employed as a legal clerk for
Justice Eliezer Rivlin at the Israeli Supreme Court. Her research areas are the history
and theory of international law, and more broadly political and legal theory. Her
dissertation, The Business of International Law: International Legal Attitudes to the
Corporate Entity 1870-1954, traces the history and theory of the business enterprise
in international law.
Robert Murtfeld (Law, SOAS)
Robert Murtfeld currently pursues a PhD thesis under the supervision of Matthew
Craven at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London.
He co-founded at the faculty of law the Centre for the Study of Colonialism, Empire
and International Law and he taught for three years on the associated LLM course. He
presented his work on the Herero/Lemkin nexus prior at the British Branch of the
International Law Association as well as the Imperial War Museum in London. He
also conducted archival research on Lemkin in New York when a visiting research
fellow at Columbia University with the sponsorship by Jose Alvarez. He has received
an offer to publish his work in the Leiden Journal of International Law. He has
expanded his research on imperialism from the Herero to the case of the Mau Mau
(which is currently pursued against the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office)
and he presented next to the historian and expert witness David Anderson on the
subject. He is currently re-channelling his research into a new career path in
international criminal law and at international criminal tribunals. His thesis is
accordingly re-written for submission in 2012/13 and it will carry the title: "Who Are
We to Judge? International Justice and the Imperial Predicament". He also organised
an associated event with Martti Koskenniemi and Jacques Verges on "International
Justice: Between Impunity and Show Trials" and he was offered most recently to
work as an assistant for the defence team in the case of the Prosecutor v Kenyatta,
Muthaura and Ali at the ICC.
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Vasuki Nesiah (Galatin, NYU)
Vasuki Nesiah is Associate Professor of Practice at the Gallatin School in New York
University where she teaches human rights, law and social theory and international
legal studies. Currently her main areas of research include the law and politics of
international human rights and humanitarianism, with a particular focus on
transitional justice. Her past publications have engaged with different dimensions of
public international law, legal history focused on colonialism and self-determination,
the politics of memory, comparative constitutionalism, law and politics in South Asia
and international feminisms. Before entering the academy full time, Nesiah spent
several years in practice at the International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ)
where she worked on law and policy issues in the field of post-conflict human rights.
Gregor Noll (Law, Lund)
Since 2006, Professor Gregor Noll holds the chair of international law at the Faculty
of Law, Lund University, Sweden. His current research is on refugee and migration
law, the theory of international law and the use of force. Until September 2002, he
served as Research Director and Deputy Director General at the Danish Centre for
Human Rights, Copenhagen, Denmark. Noll was the editor in chief of the Nordic
Journal of International Law (2000-2006). He is a member of the editorial board of
NJIL as well as of the advisory board of the Journal of Refugee Studies. Currently,
Gregor Noll is pursuing two larger projects: 1) A Heideggerian Reading of the
Concept of Jurisdiction in Human Rights Law; and 2) The Impact of Military
Training Practices on Targeting Norms in IHL.
Luigi Nuzzo (Law, Lecce)
Luigi Nuzzo is Professor of Legal History at the Law Faculty, University of Salento,
where he teaches History of Medieval and Modern Law and History of International
Law. He graduated from the University of Pavia, has received a PhD on History of
Italian Law from the University of Siena and has carried on scientific and didactic
activities at the Universities "La Sapienza" of Rome and "Federico II" of Naples.
Fellow at the Max-Planck-Institut für europäische Rechtsgeschichte, has carried out
research at the University of Barcelona, Seville, Madrid, Mexico City, Havana. He
has been Robbins Research Fellow of the University California at Berkeley and
Alexander von Humboldt Forschungstipendiat. He is the coordinator of an
international project founded by Italian University Ministry on Right of memory and
Indigenous Populations. His research interests concern: the history of international
law, the colonial law, the ius commune and the legal culture of the nineteenth century.
Liliana Obregón (Law, Bogotá/Helsinki)
Liliana Obregón is Associate Professor of Law (on leave) and former Director of the
International Law Program at the University of Los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia.
Professor Obregón obtained her doctoral degree from Harvard Law School where she
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specialized in the history and theory of international law and international institutions,
with particular interest in the study of Latin American regionalist perspectives. She
also holds an MA in International Affairs from the School of Advanced International
Studies (SAIS) of the Johns Hopkins University where she concentrated in Latin
American Studies. Representative publications include „Between Civilization and
Barbarism: Creole Interventions in International Law‟ in Richard Falk, Balakrishnan
Rajagopal and Jacqueline Stevens (eds), International Law and the Third World:
Reshaping Justice, Routledge-Cavendish, (2008); „Noted for Dissent: The
International Life of Alejandro Alvarez‟, special edition of the Leiden Journal of
International Law, volume 19, No. 4 (2006); „Creole Consciousness and International
Law in Nineteenth Century Latin America; in Anne Orford (ed), International Law
and Its Others, Cambridge University Press (2006), and „In Search of Hope: the
Plight of Displaced Colombians‟ in Roberta Cohen and Francis Deng (eds), The
Forsaken People, The Brookings Institution, Washington D.C. (1998).
Anne Orford (Law, Melbourne)
Anne Orford is the holder of the Michael D Kirby Chair of International Law, an
Australian Research Council Professorial Fellow (2007-2011), and foundation
Director of the Institute for International Law and the Humanities at Melbourne Law
School. She researches in the fields of international law and legal theory. Her work
explores the nature of international law and its relationship to histories of empire, the
modern state, counter-revolution, the use of force, the management of decolonisation,
uneven development, and the expansion of international administration. Her major
publications include International Authority and the Responsibility to Protect (CUP,
2011), the edited collection International Law and its Others (CUP, 2006), and
Reading Humanitarian Intervention: Human Rights and the Use of Force in
International Law (CUP, 2003). During 2011, Anne is the Torgny Segerstedts
Visiting Professor at the University of Gothenburg and a Visiting Professor at Lund
University. She is currently working on two major projects – a commissioned book on
International Legal Theory and a monograph entitled From Famine to Food Security:
The Practical History of an International Project.
Umut Özsu (Law, Toronto)
Umut Özsu is an assistant professor at the University of Manitoba Faculty of Law.
His interests lie principally in public international law, history and theory of
international law, comparative legal studies, sociology of law, and critical legal
theory. He is currently interested in the international legal implications of nationbuilding
and humanitarian intervention, a particular source of concern being the
(relatively under-examined) experiences of states and regions on the “semi-periphery”
of the international legal order. He also maintains a strong research interest in legal
and political theories of state sovereignty. His doctoral dissertation, defended in June
2011 at the University of Toronto, concerned a crucial episode in the international
legal history of nation-building – the post-First World War Greek-Turkish population
exchange.
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Sundhya Pahuja (Law, Melbourne)
Writing, researching and teaching in the areas of law and development, international
law, law and globalisation and legal theory, Sundhya's scholarship is broadly
concerned with the changing role of law and legal institutions in the context of
development and globalisation. It engages with the practice, and praxis, of
international law and development through political philosophy, political-economy
and postcolonial theories. Recent works include Events: The Force of International
Law (Routledge, 2010) (co-edited with Fleur Johns and Richard Joyce). Her research
on the politics of contemporary international institutions – both political and
economic – and the concept of the universal, is forthcoming as Decolonising
International Law: Development, Economic Growth and the Politics of Universality,
to be published by Cambridge University Press in 2011. Sundhya is currently writing
a book on International Development as part of the Routledge-Cavendish Critical
Approaches to Law series and also researching issues relating to international law and
poverty and to the global commons.
Sundhya is concurrently a Visiting Research Fellow at Birkbeck, University of
London, and has held visiting appointments at the London School of Economics and
Political Science, New York University, Birkbeck and the University of British
Columbia. She is currently a member of the organising committee of the Legal
Theory Interest group of the European Society of International Law and serves on the
editorial boards of the Australian Feminist Law Journal and the Law, Social Justice
and Global Development Journal (LGD) based at the University of Warwick.
Rose Parfitt (Law, SOAS)
Dr Rose Sydney Parfitt is an Assistant Professor of International Law at the American
University in Cairo, in the Department of Political Science. She received her
doctorate in December 2010 from Department of Law at the School of Oriental and
African Studies (SOAS) in London. Her thesis examined the concept of international
personality through two lenses: one historical (the annexation of the Ethiopian Empire
by Fascist Italy in 1935-36); the other theoretical (Mikhail Bakhtin's concept of
dialogical meaning). Her current research looks into the concept of freedom as
habitually attached, rhetorically and legally, to the related concepts of slavery and of
the market. She has co-taught courses on critical approaches to international law
and/or law-and-development at SOAS and at the London School of Economics.
Jennifer Pitts (History, Chicago)
Jennifer Pitts is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago.
She is author of A Turn to Empire: the rise of imperial liberalism in Britain and
France (Princeton, 2005) and editor and translator of Alexis de Tocqueville: writings
on empire and slavery (Johns Hopkins, 2001). Recent articles include a review essay
on the past decade's work in political theory and empire for the Annual Review of
Political Science (2010), "Hobson's Imperialism: A Reconsideration" (Raritan, 2010),
and a forthcoming essay, "Empire and Legal Pluralisms in the Eighteenth Century"
(American Historical Review, 2012). Her research interests lie in the fields of modern
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political and international thought, particularly British and French thought of the
eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; empire; the history of international law; and
global justice. She is currently at work on a book, tentatively entitled Boundaries of
the International, which explores European debates over legal relations with extra-
European societies during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. She is a co-editor
of the Cambridge University Press series Ideas in Context, she received her PhD from
Harvard in 2000 and taught at Yale and Princeton before joining the University of
Chicago.
Walter Rech (Law, Melbourne)
Walter is a PhD candidate at Melbourne Law School. His thesis examines the concept
of the „enemy of mankind‟ in the early modern doctrine of international law,
particularly in the works of Emer de Vattel. Walter has previously studied at the
University of Trento, the University of Freiburg im Breisgau, the Humboldt
University and the Free University of Berlin, and the Max Planck Institute for Legal
History of Frankfurt.
Teemu Ruskola (Law, Emory)
Teemu Ruskola is Professor of Law at Emory University and Visiting Professor of
Law at Georgetown University (2011-2012). His scholarship addresses questions of
legal history and theory from multiple perspectives, comparative as well as
international, frequently with China as a vantage point. His publications have
explored the intersection of corporate and family law in China, the history and politics
of Euro-American conceptions of sovereignty in the Asia-Pacific, and China‟s historic
status as an international legal subject.
Ruskola is the author of a forthcoming book Legal Orientalism: China, the United
States, and Modern Law, which analyzes the global circulation of ideas of Chinese
law, and lawlessness, in the eighteenth century, and how those ideas were translated
into international legal institutions in the nineteenth century, exemplified by the
United States‟ exercise of extraterritorial jurisdiction in China from 1844 until 1943.
He is co-editor (with Ugo Mattei and Antonio Gidi) of Schlesinger’s Comparative
Law, as well as co-editor (with David L. Eng and Shuang Shen) of a forthcoming
special volume of the journal Social Text, “China and the Human” – an
interdisciplinary examination of Chinese, Western and transnational conceptions of
the human as a legal, political, ethical, medical and anthropological subject. He is
currently at work on a book project entitled China, For Example: China and the
Making of Modern International Law, which examines the history of the introduction
of Western international law into China, and the implications of that process for the
theory and politics of international law.
Prior to joining Emory Law, Teemu Ruskola was Professor of Law at American
University. He has been a visiting professor at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public
and International Affairs at Princeton University and at Cornell Law School. Before
his teaching career, Teemu Ruskola worked as an associate at Cleary Gottlieb Steen
& Hamilton in New York and Hong Kong. He is the recipient of several awards,
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including a fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J.; a Law
and Public Affairs Fellowship at Princeton University; and a Charles A. Ryskamp
Research Fellowship with the American Council of Learned Societies. He is an
elected member of the International Academy of Comparative Law as well as a
member of the Executive Editorial Board of the American Journal of Comparative
Law.
Susan Zimmermann (History, Central European University)
Susan Zimmermann is a Professor of History at the Department of History and the
Department of Gender Studies at Central European University, Budapest, Hungary.
Her current research is on the involvement of international labour and women‟s
policy with global inequalities of power and social position and the changing
relationships between class, “race” and gender in international politics in the first half
of the 20 th century. Her recent monograph Grenzüberschreitungen. Internationale
Netzwerke, Organisationen, Bewegungen und die Politik der globalen Ungleichheit.
17. bis 21. Jahrhundert (Mandelbaum: Vienna, 2010) explores the relationship
between humanitarian and “reform”-internationalisms on the one hand and the
struggle over power asymmetry built into border-crossing interventionism on the
other. Related publications in English include “The Long-term Trajectory of
Antislavery in International Politics. From the expansion of the European
international system to unequal international development,” in Marcel van der Linden
(ed.), Humanitarian Intervention and Changing Labour Relations. The Long-term
Consequences of the Abolition of the Slave Trade, Leiden: Brill, 2011, 431-496, and
“The Institutionalization of Women and Gender Studies in Higher Education in
Central and Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union: Asymmetric Politics and
the Regional-Transnational Configuration,” in East-Central Europe/L’Europe du
Centre-Est, 34/35 (2007/2008) part 1–2, 131–160.
Andraž Zidar (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Slovenia)
Andraž Zidar received a PhD in international law from the Graduate Institute for
International and Development Studies in Geneva (2009). Previously, he finished the
European master's degree in human rights and democratisation in Venice and
Strasbourg (1999) and legal studies at the Faculty of Law in Ljubljana (1996). From
1996 to 2005 he served in the diplomatic corps of Slovenia, including as a diplomat at
the Permanent Mission of Slovenia to the UN Office in Geneva. Afterwards, he
lectured on international and constitutional criminal law at the European School of
Law in Nova Gorica, Slovenia (2007-2008) and worked as a counsellor on legal
matters and human rights in the Office of the Minister of the Interior (2009).
Currently, he holds the position of a legal adviser at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of
Slovenia.
Andraž Zidar has written a book on transitional justice, Removal of Opponents of
Democracy from Public Positions and numerous articles on international law, human
rights and international relations. He is also editor-in-chief of a book collection on
international law in Slovenian of which the first book – the translation of Grotius's
work The Freedom of the Seas – was published in May 2011.
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