Otto Spijkers, LLM MA


Telephone number: +31 (0)71 527 4783
E-Mail: o.spijkers@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 B122
 
Personal Homepage: www.invisiblecollegeblog.com
CV
Otto Spijkers is currently a PhD Candidate at Leiden University. The topic of his PhD is the United Nations and the evolution of global values. Otto also teaches 'World Law' and 'International and European Law,' is thesis supervisor on both Bachelor and Master level, and he is the Webmaster for the Department of Public International Law of Leiden University.
Otto Spijkers studied the basics of international relations at the University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom. He then took up international law at the University of Amsterdam, and spent one semester studying international legal theory and the law of the United Nations at Columbia University and New York University School of Law as an exchange student. He also has a Masters degree in the philosophy of logic, obtained at the University of Amsterdam, spending one year at the University of Malta as an exchange student. Otto Spijkers worked as an intern for the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in The Hague, and for the Office of Legal Affairs (Codification Division) of United Nations Headquarters.
Publications
  • ‘Human rights and development from an international, Dutch and personal perspective’, in Pattanaik (editor), Right to Development: A Third Generation Human Right; Icfai University Press (forthcoming).
  • ‘What’s running the world: global values, international law, and the United Nations,’ in the Interdisciplinary Journal of Human Rights Law, vol. 4, no. 1, 2009-2010.
  •  ‘De notie van wereldrecht vóór, tijdens, en na de oprichting van de Verenigde Naties,’ in Nederlands Juristenblad, special issue on ‘65 Jaar Wereldrecht,’ 2010.
  •  ‘The immunity of the United Nations in relation to the genocide in Srebrenica in the eyes of a Dutch District Court’, in the Journal of International Peacekeeping, vol. 13 (2009), no. 1-2.
  • ‘Legal mechanisms to establish accountability for the genocide in Srebrenica’, in Human Rights & International Legal Discourse, vol. 1 (2007), no. 2.