Position

Ph.D researcher, Amsterdam Center for International Law (ACIL), University of Amsterdam (UvA).

Profile

Nienke obtained her LLB degree at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, where she was a research assistant in the context of the NWO funded project on Contested Constitutions: Exploring the foundations of modern democracies. Additionally, she spent half a year in Albania, working for the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Tirana. Upon return, Nienke started the LLM programme Public International Law at the University of Amsterdam and graduated cum laude in May 2011. During her master, she was research assistant to Prof. A. Nollkaemper.

In August 2011 Nienke started as a Ph.D researcher at the UvA. Her research seeks to determine what obligations states and/or international organizations have to prevent gross human rights violations under international law and how these obligations are distributed among multiple responsible actors. For the latter aspect, she will develop alongside and in close correspondence with the SHARES project. Alongside her research, she teaches the master course in International Human Rights Law and bachelor course in Fundamental Rights. In 2014, she will spend three months at the Centre for Governance and Public Policy at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia as a visiting scholar.

Publications

• The Right to Development and State Responsibility

Other Relevant Profile Pages

• Personal Profile SHARES website

• Visitor Profile Griffith University website

Blogposts

• SHARES Blogpost 25 October 2011 - The Responsibility to Protect Temporarily Stranded in Syria

• SHARES Blogpost 12 March 2012 - 'The Responsibility to Protect: Why Libya but not Syria?' Panel Discussion and Book Launch

• SHARES Blogpost 12 September 2012 - ‘Extraterritorial Application of Human Rights Treaties and Shared Responsibility’, A Comment on Marko Milanovic’ SHARES Lecture

• SHARES Blogpost 25 February 2013 - The Maastricht Principles on Extraterritorial Obligations in the area of ESC rights – Comments to a Commentary

• SHARES Blogpost 14 June 2013 - ‘The Allocation of International Human Rights Duties (and Responsibilities) to Multiple Duty-bearers’, A Discussion of Samantha Besson’s SHARES Lecture

• SHARES Blogpost 20 December 2013 - Jurisdiction and the Allocation of Obligations under Human Rights Law to Multiple States

• The Right to Development and State Responsibility

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