The Engagement of Domestic Courts with International Law

Since 1998, André Nolkaemper has been Professor of Public International Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Amsterdam. He is also the Dean of the Faculty of Law. In 1999, he established the Amsterdam Center for International Law (ACIL), which has become a centre of excellence at the University of Amsterdam and ranks amongst the top institutions for international law in the Netherlands. In 2012 he was elected as life-long Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2017 he was elected as life-long Member of the Institut de Droit International. Yuval Shany is the Hersch Lauterpacht Chair in International Law and former Dean of the Law Faculty of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He was a member of the UN Human Rights Committee from 2013 to 2020, and its Chair for one year. He currently serves as a senior research fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute, the Chair of the University's Minerva Center for Human Rights' academic committee, and the head of the CyberLaw program of the University's CyberSecurity Research Center. His research focuses on international human rights law, international humanitarian law, international courts, and international law in cyberspace. Antonios Tzanakopoulos is Professor of Public International Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Oxford. Antonios is a general international lawyer and has published on the law of international responsibility, the law of treaties, the law of immunity, the law of international dispute settlement, the law of the sea, international investment law, and others. Antonios advises states and other actors on matters of public international law and has acted as counsel or advisor in cases before international and domestic courts, including the International Court of Justice. Antonios is the Secretary-General of the International Law Association <http://www.ila-hq.org/>. Eleni Methymaki teaches international law at the University of Oxford, where she is also finalising her DPhil thesis on the role of domestic law in international adjudication. Beyond academia, Eleni has experience in advising states, international organizations, and private parties on international law matters and dispute resolution.