Dr. E. de Brabandere

Function:
  • Assistant Professor of Public International Law / Lecturer in Public International Law
Expertise:
  • Public International Law (statehood, sources, treaties, responsibility, theory and foundations)
  • International Dispute Settlement / Arbitration
  • International Organisations
  • International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights
  • The United Nations and Peace and Security

Telephone number: +31 (0)71 527 7399
E-Mail: e.c.p.d.c.de.brabandere@law.leidenuniv.nl
Faculty / Department: Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid, Instituut voor Publiekrecht, Afd Internationaal Publiekrecht
Office Address: Kamerlingh Onnes Gebouw
Steenschuur 25
2311 ES Leiden
Room number B126
 

Dr. Eric De Brabandere is Lecturer in International Law at Leiden University’s Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies. He obtained his law degree cum laude from Ghent University in 2001. He continued his legal education at the Law Faculty of the University of Geneva and obtained a Diplôme d’Etudes Approfondies en Droit International Public in 2002. He received his doctorate in law (PhD) from Ghent University in 2007. Between 2002 and 2007, he worked part-time as assistant-lecturer at the Department of Public International Law at Ghent University and as an attorney at the Brussels Bar. He has equally lectured at the Karel de Grote University College in Antwerp.
His areas of expertise include international dispute settlement, general international law, the law of peace and security, and the laws of armed conflict. He is the author of several publications in these fields, including the book ‘Post-conflict Administrations in International Law: International Territorial Administration, Transitional Authority and Foreign Occupation in Theory and Practice (Martinus Nijhoff, 2009).
Eric is senior editor of the section ‘Current Legal Developments’ of the Leiden Journal of International Law.
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Publications (selection)
Book
  • Post-conflict Administrations in International Law. International Territorial Administration, Transitional Authority and Foreign Occupation in Theory and Practice ( Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2009), 332 p. Click here to read the Introduction of the book.
  Articles and Book Chapters  
  • “La 61ième session de la Commission du droit international”, 42 Revue Belge de Droit International (2009) (Issue 2) (forthcoming)
  • “The Responsibility for Post-Conflict Reforms: A Critical Assessment of Jus Post Bellum as a Legal Concept”, Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law (2010), 119-149. 
  • “Propaganda”, in R. Wolfrum (ed.), Max Planck Encyclopaedia of Public International Law ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010) (forthcoming
  • “Human Rights and Non-State Actors in a State-Centric Legal System: The Theoretical and Practical Limits of ‘Stateless’ Approaches to Direct Corporate Responsibility”, Human Rights and International Legal Discourse (2010) (forthcoming
  • “Accountability and International Territorial Administration: UNTAET and Human Rights”, in Jan Wouters, Eva Brems and Stefaan Smis (eds.), Accountability of International Organisations for Human Rights Violations ( Antwerp: Intersentia, 2009) (forthcoming).
  • “Non-State Actors, State-Centrism and Human Rights Obligations”, 22 Leiden Journal of International Law (2010), 191-209. 
  • “UN Supervision of Post-Conflict Reconstruction and the Domestic Jurisdiction of States”, 59(2) Ars Aequi (2009), 103-108. 
  • “La 60ième session de la Commission du droit international”, 41 Revue Belge de Droit International (2008) (Issue 1-2). 
  • “Questions sociales et sanitaires”, in E. David (ed.) “La pratique du pouvoir exécutif et le contrôle des chambres législatives en matière de droit international (2003-2007) ”, 41 Revue Belge de Droit International (2008) (Issue 1-2). 
  • “La 59ième session de la Commission du droit international”, 40 Revue Belge de Droit International (2007) (Issue 2). 
  • “La 58ième session de la Commission du droit international”, 40 Revue Belge de Droit International (2007) (Issue 1), 243-256. 
  • “Opvolging van staten inzake bilaterale (dubbelbelasting)verdragen”, 332 Tijdschrift voor Fiscaal Recht [België] 1019-1028 (2007) (Translation: State succession in respect of bilateral (double taxation) treaties). 
  • “Democratic Governance and Post-Conflict Reconstruction”, co-authored with Marc Cogen, 20 Leiden Journal of International Law 669 (2007) 
  • “De VN en het Internationaal Recht”, (with Marc Cogen), in Jan Wouters and Cédric Reyngaert, De Verenigde Naties : Een wereld van verschil ? (Leuven: Acco, 2005), pp. 291-298. (Translation: The UN and International Law)  
  Published Conference Papers