Profile

Janne Nijman is professor of History and Theory of International Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Amsterdam and affiliated with the Amsterdam Center for International Law (ACIL). She is Academic Director of the TMC Asser Instituut.

Together with Prof  Anthony Carty (University of Hong Kong) Nijman is leading a research project on Morality and Responsibility of Rulers: Chinese and European Early Modern Origins of a Rule of Law for World Order. They made successful applications to the Dutch Royal Academy of Sciences (KNAW) and the Chiang Ching -Kuo Foundation (Taiwan) to facilitate a symposium on this topic. Oxford University Press has agreed to publish a jointly edited book under this title.

Nijman is a member on the ILA International Committee on Non-State Actors. She has acted frequently as guest lecturer at the Netherlands Institute of International Relations "Clingendael" and at the Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies (UvA). 

Previously, she has been a post-doc researcher in the ACIL-based NWO Pioneer Project "The Divide and Interaction between National law and International Law." Janne Nijman has been a Global Research Fellow of New York University School of Law (2003-04), affiliated to the History and Theory of International Law Program of the Institute for International Law and Justice, an Early Career Visiting Fellow at Queen Mary College School of Law, University of London (summer 2006), and a Visiting Scholar at the Johns Hopkins University Bologna Institute for Policy Research (Spring term 2012). 

She is based at ACIL since 2004. From 2007-2014, she has been Dean to the Law Faculty's PhD Candidates. 

Ancillary activities

Janne Nijman is an editor of the Netherlands Yearbook of International Law and the Grotiana journal. Nijman is a board member of the Grotiana Foundation and the Koninklijke Nederlandse Vereniging voor Internationaal Recht  (KNVIR, the Dutch branch of the International Law Association). She is president of the executive board of Oikos, a NGO focused on fair and sustainable globalisation, and board member and research advisor on Global Justice to The Broker, an online platform that aims to 'bridge the gap' between academics and development policy makers. She has joined the supervisory board of Spark, which develops higher education and entrepreneurship so that young ambitious people are empowered to lead their post-conflict societies into prosperity.

Nijman has published op-eds in Het Parool, Nederlands Dagblad, and Eindhovens Dagblad .

• NYU IILJ History&Theory Program

• Grotiana @ brillpublishers

• TMC Asser Instituut

• The Broker

Legal Formation

Nijman studied law at the University of Leiden and the Université Robert Schuman in Strasbourg. She defended her doctoral thesis in public international law at Leiden University in 2004. Previously, she participated in the 1998 ACUNS/ASIL Summer Workshop "Globalization and Global Governance: Changing Roles for State and Non-State Actors" Yale University, USA.

General Research Interests

Janne Nijman is currently working on a range of research topics, including :

• Ideas of international law
• History of international legal thought
• International law and politics
• Moral foundations of international law
• The rise of cities in the global legal order
• Fundamental rights 

Key publications

Monograph & edited volumes :

• Morality and Responsibility of Rulers: Chinese and European early modern origins of a rule of law for world order, together with Anthony Carty (Oxford University Press, forthcoming).
• Netherlands Yearbook of International Law 2012, Legal Equality and the International Rule of Law. Essays in honour of Pieter H. Kooijmans, Volume editor with Wouter Werner, 2013.
• Netherlands Yearbook of International Law 2011, Agora: The Iraq Case: international law and politics, Volume editor with Ellen Hey, 2012.
• Special Issue Grotiana 2009, Mare Liberum 1609-2009, Volume editor with Gustaaf van Nifterik, Grotiana Vol. 30, Dec. 2009.
• Janne E Nijman & André Nollkaemper (Eds), New Perspectives on the Divide between National and International Law, OUP, 2007 (see Oxford University Press link below).
• The Concept of International Legal Personality: an inquiry into the history and theory of international law , T.M.C. Asser Press, 2004 (see Cambridge University Press link below) .

                           Reviewed in (see links below):

                           Review Essay by Anthony Carty in: 6 Melbourne JIL 2005, 534-552.

                           Book Review by Robert Kolb in 18 European JIL 2007, 775-776.

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Chapters and articles :

• Renaissance of the City as Global Actor. The role of foreign policy and international law practices in the construction of cities as global actors, in The Transformation of Foreign Policy: Drawing and Managing Boundaries, ed. by Andreas Fahrmeir, Gunther Hellmann, and Miloš Vec (z.Zt. in Begutachtung bei Oxford University Press, in Vorbereitung für 2015).
• In Memoriam, Pieter Hendrik Kooijmans (1933–2013), Leiden Journal of International Law (2013), 26, pp. 1–3.
• In Memoriam: Pieter Hendrik Kooijmans (1933-2013), in JE Nijman & WG Werner (Eds), Netherlands Yearbook of International Law 2012, Legal Equality and the International Rule of Law. Essays in honour of Pieter H. Kooijmans, Volume 43, 2013, pp. ix-x.
• 'Legal Equality and the International Rule of Law' together with Wouter Werner in JE Nijman & WG Werner (Eds), Netherlands Yearbook of International Law 2012, Legal Equality and the International Rule of Law. Essays in honour of Pieter H. Kooijmans, Volume 43, 2013, pp. 3-24.
• Human Inequality puts Sovereign Equality to the test, The Broker, publication date March 27, 2013 (online article, 3360 words), available at: http://www.thebrokeronline.eu/Articles/Human-inequality-puts-sovereign-equality-to-the-test 

• 'Minorities and Majorities' in A Peters & B Fassbender (Eds.), Oxford Handbook on the History of International law (OUP, 2012), pp. 95-119.
• 'After "Iraq": Back to the International Rule of Law? An Introduction to the Netherlands Yearbook of International Law 2011 Agora  "The Iraq Case: international law and politics"' (2012), pp. 71-94.
• 'Rechtstreekse werking verdragen goed voor Nederland' together with K. Brölmann, in Openbaar Bestuur Juni 2012 pp. 13-15.
• 'Morality and Responsibility of Rulers: early modern origins of a rule of law for world order", written together with Anthony Carty, presented by Carty at the International Symposium " Reason of State and State of Reason in the Global Era: History and Present ", held at the School of Law, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 3-4 December 2011. 
• "The Future of the City and the International Law of the Future," in Law of the Future and the Future of Law, Sam Muller et al. (eds), (Torkel Opsahl EPublisher, 2011).
• "On Faith in the Moral Force of International Law: Martin Wight and Hugo de Groot," 12 (2) Journal of the History of International Law 329-346 (2010).
• "Non-State Actors and the International Rule of Law:Revisiting the 'Realist Theory' of International Legal Personality,"in M. Noortmann and C. Ryngaert (Eds), Non State Actors Dynamics in International Law.From Law-Takers to Law-Makers  (Aldershot, Ashgate, 2010).
• "Paul Ricoeur and international law: beyond 'the end of the subject': towards a reconceptualisation of international legal personality," in Fleur Johns (ed.), International Legal Personality , Series: The Library of Essays in International Law, Ashgate, (March 2010). (reprint from LJIL 2007).
• "Introduction: Mare Liberum Revisited 1609-2009" together with Gustaaf van Nifterik, Grotiana Vol. 30, Special Issue Mare Liberum 1609-2009, pp. 3-19 (December 2009).
• Special Report in The Broker (December 2009), "Cities of the world unite", which includes article "The Rising influence of Urban Actors." www.thebrokeronline.eu  
• "Paul Ricoeur and international law:beyond 'the end of the subject': towards a reconceptualisation of international legal personality," in A. Bianchi(ed.), Non-State Actors and International Law , Series: The Library of Essays in International Law, Ashgate, (August 2009). (reprint from LJIL 2007).
• "Internationalisering van de stad (deel 3)," in 19 Openbaar Bestuur, Tijdschrift voor Beleid, organisatie en politiek (Issue 1, January 2009), pp. 13-16.
• "Internationaliseringvan de stad (deel 2)," in 18 Openbaar Bestuur, Tijdschrift voor Beleid, organisatie en politiek (Issue 12, December 2008), pp. 11-15.
• "Internationalisering van de stad (deel 1)," in 18 Openbaar Bestuur, Tijdschrift voor Beleid, organisatie en politiek (Issue 11, November 2008), pp. 9-13.
• "Introduction", in: JE Nijman and PA Nollkaemper (Eds.), New Perspectives on the Divide between National and International Law (OUP, 2007, 416 p.), p. 1-14 (with André Nollkaemper).
• "Beyond the Divide," in: JE Nijman and PA Nollkaemper (Eds.) New Perspectives on the Divide Between National and International Law (Oxford: 2007, 416 p.), p. 341-360 (with André Nollkaemper).
• "Jan Amos Comenius (1592-1670),reformer ofhumanity: A cosmopolitan contribution to the 17th century discourse on world peace," 7 Baltic Yearbook of International Law 2007, pp. 121-154.
• "Hoe houden we oorlog rechtvaardig?", in: Thijs Jansen, JanneNijman & Jan Willem Sap (eds.), Burgers en Barbaren. Over oorlog tussen recht enmacht , Amsterdam, Boom, 2007.
• "... die de vrede liefhebben, duyden alles tot vrede", bookreview of Henk Nellen, Hugo de Groot: een leven in strijd om de vrede 1583-1645, in: Thijs Jansen, JanneNijman & Jan Willem Sap (eds.), BurgersenBarbaren.Over oorlog tussenrecht en macht , Amsterdam, Boom,2007.
• "Paul Ricoeur and International Law: Beyond "The End of the Subject" - Towards a reconceptualisation of international legal personality" , 20 Leiden Journal of InternationalLaw 2007, pp. 25-64.
• "Corporate Social Responsibility: a conceptual challenge to international law" in: J.J.A.Hamers, C.A.Schwarz,enB.T.M. Steins Bisschop (eds.), Noodzaak, plicht of wenselijkheid van Maatschappelijk Verantwoord Ondernemen: een multidisciplinaire verkenning , 2005, pp. 39-62.
• "Leibniz's Theory of Relative Sovereignty and International Legal Personality: Justice and Stability or the Last Great Defence of the Holy Roman Empire," NYU Working Papers series 2004/2.
• "Sovereignty & Personality: A Process of Inclusion", in G. Kreijen et al. (eds.),  State,Sovereignty, and InternationalGovernance , Oxford, OUP, 2002, pp. 109-144.  

• The Concept of International Legal Personality

• Review by Robert Kolb

• Review Essay by Anthony Carty

• The Divide between national and international law

• NYU IILJ Working Papers

Book (in Dutch ):

Thijs Jansen, Janne Nijman & Jan Willem Sap (eds.), BurgersenBarbaren.Oorlog tussen recht en macht, Amsterdam, Boom, 2007.

Teaching

• Grondrechten ('Fundamental Rights' - Bachelor Course)
• History and Theory of International Law (Master Course)

• Grondrechten

• History&Theory of International Law (Mastercourse)

• N.I.L.O.
  Advies lokaal bestuur, bedrijven en internationala recht