Dr. J. d'Aspremont

Expertise:
  • public international law, international dispute settlement, law of international organizations, international institutional law

Dr. Jean d’Aspremont has been a lecturer in Public International Law at the University of Leiden since 2006 as well as a guest lecturer in International Humanitarian Law at the University of Louvain (UCL). He received his LL.M. from the University of Cambridge and his Ph.D. from the University of Louvain (UCL) where he was an assistant lecturer in International Law from 2001 to 2005. In 2005-06, he was a global research fellow of New York University (NYU), affiliated with the Institute of International Law and Justice (IILJ). He is also a senior editor of the Leiden Journal of International Law and the  academic coordinator of the Master’s Program in Public International Law at the University of Leiden.
Publications (selection)
  • “Softness in International Law: A Self-Serving Quest for New Legal Materials”, 19 European Journal of International Law (2008/4).
  •  “Post-Conflict Administrations as Democracy-Building Instruments”, 9 Chicago Journal of International Law (2008) 1-16.
  • “La Commission des réclamations Erythrée – Ethiopie : un premier bilan”, Annuaire français de droit international, 2008 (with. P. d’Argent).
  • “The Foundations of the International Legal Order” 12 Finnish Yearbook of International Law (2007).
  •  “International Law in Asia: the Limits to the Constitutionalist and Liberal Doctrines”, 13 Asian Yearbook of International Law (2008)
  •  “The recommendations made by the International Court of Justice”, 56 International and Comparative Law Quarterly (2007), 185-198.
  • “Abuse of the Legal Personality of International Organizations and the Responsibility of Member States”, 4 International Organizations Law Review (2007), 91-119.
  • “Regulating Statehood: The Kosovo Status Settlement”, 20 Leiden Journal of International Law 3 (2007), 649-668.
  • “The limits to the exclusive responsibility of International Organizations”, 2 Human Rights and International Legal Discourse (2007), 215-228.
  • “Legitimacy of Governments in the Age of Democracy”, 38 N.Y.U. Journal of International Law & Politics, (2006) 877-918.
  • “Uniting Pragmatism and Theory in International Legal Scholarship: Koskenniemi’s From Apology to Utopia revisited”, 19 Revue québecoise de droit international (2006), 353-360.
  • “The Inhumanity of International Law”, 2 Journal of Intervention and State-Building, (2008), 107-110. 
  • “La création internationale d’Etats démocratiques”, Revue générale de droit international public (2005), 889-908.
  • “Les travaux de la Commission du droit international relatifs aux actes unilatéraux des Etats”, Revue générale de droit international public (2005), 163-189.
  •  “Les dispositions non normatives des actes juridiques conventionnels à la lumière de la jurisprudence de la Cour internationale de Justice”, Belgian Review of International Law (2003), 496-520.
  •  “Du dualisme au monisme. La révolution silencieuse de la Cour suprême du Canada”, Revue belge de droit constitutionnel (2003), 399-409.
  •  “La primauté du droit européen dans le contentieux objectif de légalité”, Journal des tribunaux - Droit européen (2004), 200-205 (with J. De Beys).
  •  “La loi de compétence universelle revue mais pas corrigée”, Journal des Tribunaux (2003), 480-481 (with P. d’Argent).
  • “La loi de compétence universelle devant la Cour internationale de justice (aff. République démocratique du Congo c. Belgique)”, Journal des Tribunaux, 13 avril 2002 (2002), 282-288 (with Fr. Dopagne).
Book
  • L’Etat non démocratique en droit international. Etude critique du droit international positif et de la pratique contemporaine, Paris, Pedone, 2008 (monograph – in French).
3/9/2008