Dr. Jean d’Aspremont is Associate Professor and Senior Research Fellow of the Amsterdam Centre for International Law at the University of Amsterdam. He also is Guest Professor of International Humanitarian Law at the University of Louvain in Belgium. He is a Senior Editor of the Leiden Journal of International Law. He acted as counsel in proceedings before the International Court of Justice.

He previously was Assistant Professor of International Law at the University of Leiden and Director of the LL.M. in Public International Law. He received his LL.M. from the University of Cambridge and his Ph.D. from the University of Louvain. In 2005-06, he was a Global Research Fellow at New York University (NYU), affiliated with the Institute of International Law and Justice (IILJ).

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His areas of research include most major subject matters of general Public International Law and, in particular, questions pertaining to Statehood, Sources of International Law, State Responsibility, International Institutional Law, International Dispute Settlement, the Law of Armed Conflicts, and Legal Theory.

He currently carries out a VENI-Research project at the Amsterdam Centre for International Law funded by the Dutch National Fund for Scientific Research (NWO) on Non-State Actors. Other current research projects include a book on Formalism in International Law and a book on International Humanitarian Law.

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• “Softness in International Law: A Self-Serving Quest for New Legal Materials”, 19 European Journal of International Law (2008) 1075-1093
• “State Responsibility and Rebellion: Wrongdoing by democratically elected insurgents”, 58 International and Comparative Law Quarterly 427-442 (2009)
• “Softness in International Law: A Rejoinder to Tony d’Amato”, 20 European Journal of International Law 911-917 (2009).
• “Hart et le positivisme postmoderne”, 113 Revue générale de droit international public (2009), 635-654.
• “The Foundations of the International Legal Order” 18 Finnish Yearbook of International Law (2007) 219-255
• “Two Constitutionalisms in Europe: Pursuing an Articulation of the European and International Legal Orders”, 69 Heidelberg Journal of International Law (ZaÖRV) (2009) 939-978 (with Fr. Dopagne)
• L’Etat non démocratique en droit international. Etude critique du droit positif et de la pratique contemporaine, Paris, Pedone, 2008 (monograph – 375 p.)
• “Premises of Diplomatic Missions”, “Diplomatic Courier and Bag”, “Persona non grata”in R. Wolfrum (ed.), Heidelberg Encyclopedia of International Law, (Oxford University Press, 2008)
• “La doctrine du droit international face à la tentation d’une juridicisation sans limites”, Revue générale de droit international public (2008) 849-866
• “Post-Conflict Administrations as Democracy-Building Instruments”, 9 Chicago Journal of International Law (2008) 1-16
• “International Law in Asia: the Limits to the Western Constitutionalist and Liberal Doctrines”, 13 Asian Yearbook of International Law (2008) 89-111
• “The Doctrinal Illusion of Heterogenity of International Lawmaking Processes”, in R. Wolfrum (ed.), Proceedings of the ESIL Biennal Conference (Hart Publishing, 2009)
• “Abuse of the Legal Personality of International Organizations and the Responsibility of Member States”, 4 International Organizations Law Review (2007), 91-119
• “The recommendations made by the International Court of Justice”, 56 International and Comparative Law Quarterly (2007), 185-198 (see the reaction of H. Thirlway, ICLQ 2009/1)
• “Regulating Statehood: The Kosovo Status Settlement”, 20 Leiden Journal of International Law 3 (2007),649-668
• “Legitimacy ofGovernments 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