Catherine (Kiki) Brölmann is an associate professor of international law at the Department of International Law, and  a research fellow at the Amsterdam Center for International Law. She is dep. program director of the Research Master in Public International Law at the UvA. 

Brölmann is a member of the Advisory Committee for  Public International Law of the Netherlands Government. In 2014 she joined the Board of Directors of WaterLex in Geneva. 

Research 

Research interests include: general public international law;  law of international organization(s); international rule of law; rule-making processes;  interaction between national and international legal orders; theory of international law; law of treaties; collective human rights; international law and governance of natural resources.

Brölmann has worked for an extensive period on secondment to the legal division of the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She has been concerned with the practice of international law also as an external legal advisor to  the organization  Both Ends -  i.a. in  the steering group of the government-funded project  "The Right to Water at the World Bank" -, and as an amicus curiae to the Court of Appeal in The Hague.

Catherine Brölmann is editor of the  International Community Law Review; member of the Scientific Board of the International Law Book Series with Editoriale Scientifica, and of the International Board of Editors of the Polish Review of International and European Law. She was a delegate member of the Studygroup on Responsibility of International Organisations, International Law Association.

From April to July 2012 Brölmann was a visiting professor at the Institute of Advanced Studies of the University of Bologna (http://www.ias.unibo.it/ISA/Proposals/VisitingProfessors/default.htm ), and in Oct-Nov 2012 a visiting fellow at the Humboldt Universität in Berlin.  

• Collection of short essays on 'Secession within the Union'

• Amsterdam Center for International Law

• Advisory Committee for International Law of the Netherlands' Government

• WaterLex

• International Community Law Review

Catherine Brölmann holds a degree in law (LL.M and PhD, UvA) and in Italian literature and Romance linguistics (MA, UvA). Other ac-legal formation includes a diploma of the University of Helsinki, Summer Seminar (1998).

External research i.a. as Research Fellow at the Lauterpacht Centre, University of Cambridge (spring 2004);  Visiting Fellow at Queen Mary College, University of London (summer 2006); Visiting Fellow at the University of Bologna (summer 2011), and at the Humboldt Universität in Berlin (Autumn 2012). 

Key Publications

[See for a full list of publications below]

• ‘The PCIJ and International Rights of Groups and Individuals’, in Chr. Tams & M. Fitzmaurice, Legacies of the Permanent Court of International Justice (Leiden-Boston, Martinus Nijhoff, 2013), 123-143
• "Specialized Rules of Treaty Interpretation: International Organizations", in Duncan Hollis (ed), the Oxford Guide to Treaties , Oxford University Press, 2012, 507-524
• CM Brölmann & A Tanzi (eds), Community and Sovereignty : Transboundary Aquifers and International Law (Brill, 2011 - Special Issue of the ICLRev vol. 13)
• 'International Organizations and Treaties: Contractual Freedom and Institutional Constraint' in J Klabbers (ed.), Research Handbook on International Organizations, London, Elgar Publishers, 2011, 285-312 
• 'Challenging International Criminal Tribunals before Domestic Courts', in A Reinisch (ed.), Challenges of Acts of International Organizations before National Courts (Oxford University Press, 2010), 111-136 (with J d'Aspremont)  
• The Institutional Veil in Public International Law: International Organisations and the Law of Treaties, Oxford , Hart Publishers, 2007 [see link below] -- (Reviews include the European JIL,  American JIL, Netherlands JIL, the Journal of Conflict and Security Law)

•  'Deterritorialization in International Law : Moving away from the Divide between National and International Law' in J Nijman & A Nollkaemper, New Perspectives on the Divide between National and International Law, Oxford University Press, 2007, 84-109 [see link below]
• ' A Flat Earth? International Organizations in the System ofInternational Law', in  International Organizations , Series: Library of Essays in International Law, Ashgate, 2006, 183-206 (reprint from the Nordic Journal of IL)
• 'Beyond state sovereignty: The Human Right to water' in 5 Non-State actors and International Law 2005, 183-208 (with Th Kiefer).
• 'Law-Making Treaties: Form and Function in International Law', 74 Nordic Journal of International Law 2005, Issue 3, 383-404
• 'Limits to the Treaty Paradigm' in M Craven & M Fitzmaurice (eds.), Interrogating the Treaty: Essays in the Contemporary Law ofTreaties , Wolf Legal Publishers, 2005, 28-39

• The Institutional Veil in Public International Law

• Blog post: Secession within the Union - after Scotland's NO, the quest for a legal framework continues (ACELG 2014)

• Blog post: International Law as a Tool for Global Water Governance (The Broker 2013)

• Openbaar Bestuur: Rechtstreekse werking verdragen goed voor Nederland (2012)

• Op-ed : VVD heeft blijkbaar moeite met onafhankelijke rechter (ND 2012)

• Nederlands Juristenblad: het Recht op Water voor de NL rechter (2010)

• Op-ed: het recht op water en sanitatie (Trouw 2008)

• Nederlands Juristenblad: Het Recht op Water voor de NL rechter (2008)

• Full list of publications

Teaching

Currently taught courses at the UVA are Internationaal Publiekrecht; Sources & Foundations of International Law; Law & Practice of the United Nations, and the research master seminar series on the International Rule of Law. Other focal areas of teaching are the Law of Treaties, International Water Law and the EU as an international actor.

Visiting and associate lectureships include Queen Mary college, University of London; University of Leiden; University of Helsinki; Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam; University of Bologna; Yeditepe University of  Istanbul; Nederlandse Academie voor Wetgeving (Netherlands Academy for Legislation). 

• Internationaal Publiekrecht

• Law and Practice of the United Nations

• Sources and Foundations of International Law

• Research Master in PIL

• Master International and European Law

• Cie Advies VolkenrechtelijkeVraagstukken
  Advies aan Regering en 1e & 2e Kamer over vraagstukken internationaal recht
• Waterlex, Geneva
  Board of Directors