Prof. dr. N. Schrijver


Telephone number: +31 (0)71 527 8936
E-Mail: n.j.schrijver@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 B141
 
Professor Nico Schrijver is Chair of Public International Law at Leiden University, and Academic Director at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies, Leiden University/Campus The Hague. He is also Visiting Professor on Europe and North-South relations at the Université libre de Bruxelles;President of the Netherlands Society of International Law; Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (since 2008); Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, The Hague; Member (membreassocié) of the Institut de droitinternational (elected in 2007); and Member of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.   
He appeared before the International Court of Justice and the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, and as legal counsel in law of the sea cases before special ad hoc tribunals, and as expert in proceedings before the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), and before the Inter-American Court for Human Rights. He has working experience in the UN system, including as legal officer for the Office of the Legal Counsel, United Nations. He is Chairperson of the Committee on the International Law of Sustainable Development of the International Law Association (previously General Rapporteur) and Co-Chair (with Dr Kamal Hossain) of the ILA Study Group on UN Reform.
He is a Member of the Human Rights Committee of the Advisory Council on International Affairs of the Netherlands Government; and served, inter alia, as chairperson of the Advisory Council's Committee on the Human Rights Approach to Development Co-operation (2003), Failing States - A Global Responsibility (2004), and Reforming the United Nations: a Closer Look at the Annan Proposals (2005).
He is a Member of the Board of the Netherlands Institute for Human Rights; Member of the 5-member high-level Task Force on the implementation of the right to development of  the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights; Member of the Advisory Committee on Issues of International Law of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Netherlands. He is former Chairman and currently Board member of the Academic Council on the United Nations System, New York/New Haven; Co-founder and Board member of the European Society of International Law.
Professor Schrijver has visiting professorships at the Institute of Social Studies, The Hague; at the Université libre de Bruxelles; at the Institute of Law of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing; and at the Universiti Teknologi Mara, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He has an extensive publications record.