Faculty of Law
E. de Wet
prof.dr. E. (Erika) de Wet
University of Amsterdam


Oudemanhuispoort 4-6
1012 CN Amsterdam
Room: E309 (until 31.12.2010)

Telephone
0205257207
0205252900

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Personal webpage of Prof. Dr. Erika de Wet

Profile

Since January 2011 Erika de Wet is Co-Director of the Institute for International and Comparative Law in Africa (ICLA) and Professor of International Law at the University of Pretoria. Between 2004 and 2010 she was a full-time (tenured) Professor of International Constitutional Law at the Amsterdam Center for International Law, University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands), a position which she still holds part-time. She further lectures in international law at the University of Zurich (Switzerland) and the University of Bonn (Germany) on a regular basis. Between 2007 and 2010 she served as a member of the Advisory Committee on Issues of Public International Law of the Netherlands(CAVV).

She completed her basic legal training (B.Iur., LL.B.) as well as her doctoral thesis (LL.D.) at the University of the Free State (South Africa). She further holds an LL.M. from Harvard University and completed her Habilitationsschrift, at the University of Zurich (Switzerland) in December 2002. It was published with Hart Publishing (United Kingdom) in 2004 under the title The Chapter VII Powers of the United Nations Security Council. This work has since been widely cited, including by the International Court of Justice, the European Court of Human Rights and the House of Lords (United Kingdom Supreme Court).

Comprehensive CV

ICLA

Research

Since 2010, Prof. De Wet holds a B1 rating from the South African National Research Foundation, a category reserved for scholars who are internationally recognized in their field. In December 2006 she was awarded a 1,2 million Euros excellence grant by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) for five year research project on The emerging international constitutional order - the implications of hierarchy in international law for the coherence andlegitimacy ofinternational decision-making.  

VICI Project

Editorial Activities

Together with Prof. André Nollkaemper, Erika de Wet is Editor in Chief of the Oxford Reports on International Law in Domestic Courts (ILDC) Online; she is also one of the General Editors of the Oxford Constitutions Online (previously known as Constitutions of the Countries of the World), with Prof Rüdiger Wolfrum and Prof. Rainer Grote. Other editorial positions include the Editorial Board of the Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal ( PER); as well as the International Advisory Board of the African Human Rights Law Journal.

African Human Rights Law Journal

ILDC Online

PER

Oxford Constitutions Online

Publications

Key publications include:

  • (with Jure Vimdar, eds). Hierarchy in International Law: The Place of Human Rights (Oxford University Press, fortchcoming).
  • The Governance of Kosovo: Security Council Resolution 1244 andthe Establishment and Functioning of Eulex', American Journal of International Law (103) 2009, pp. 83-96.
  • ' The Reception Process in the Netherlands andBelgium', in Helen Keller & AlecStone Sweet (eds), A Europe of Rights: the Impact of theECHR onNationalLegal Systems, Oxford: Oxford University Press2008, pp. 229-310.
  • 'Zur Zukunft der Völkerrechtswissenschaft in Deutschland', Zeitschrift für Ausländisches Öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht (67) 2007, pp.  777-798.
  • 'The Emergence of International and Regional Value Systems as a Manifestation of the Emerging International Constitutional Order', Leiden Journal of International Law (19) 2006, pp. 611-632.
  • 'The InternationalConstitutional Order', International & Comparative Law Quarterly (55) 2006, pp. 51-76.
  • 'The "Friendly but Cautious" Reception of International Law in the Jurisprudence of the South African Constitutional Court: Some Critical Remarks', Fordham InternationalLaw Review (28) 2005, pp. 1529-1565.
  • The Chapter VII Powers of the United Nations Security Council (Hart Publishing, 2004), 413 pp.
  • 'The Direct Administration of Territories by the United Nations and its Member States in the Post Cold-War Era: Legal Bases and Implications for National Law’, Max Planck Yearbook of United Nations Law (8) 2004, pp. 291-340.
  • 'The Prohibition of Torture as an International Norm of Jus Cogens and its Implications for National and Customary Law’, European Journal of International Law (15) 2004, pp. 97-121.
  • (with André Nollkaemper), ‘Review of the Security Decisions by National Courts’, German Yearbook of International Law (45) 2002, pp. 166-202.
  • The Relationship between the Security Council and Regional Organizations duringEnforcement Action under Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter’, Nordic Journal of International Law (71) 2002, pp. 1-37.
  • The Constitutional Enforceability of Economicand Social Rights: the Meaning of the GermanConstitutional Model for South Africa (Butterworths, 1996), 170 pp.
  • ‘Labour Standards in the Globalized Economy: the Inclusionof a Social Clausein the GATT/WTO’, Human Rights Quarterly (17) 1995, pp. 443-462.


The Chapter VII Powers of the United Nations Security Council

Hierarchy in International Law: The Place of Human Rights

Publications

International Presentations