Eric De Brabandere is Professor of International Dispute Settlement Law. He is also Attorney-at-Law at the Brussels Bar (with DMDB Law) practising in international law and investment arbitration and a member of the Board of Editors of the Revue belge de droit international (Belgian Review of International…

Yung Lin is a PhD candidate at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs, Leiden University. Her research focuses on non-traditional security, civil-society diplomacy, and human-centered geopolitics, with a particular emphasis on Taiwan and the broader Indo-Pacific region. Her PhD research project…

Jasper De Paepe is a PhD candidate at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs. Jasper De Paepe has conducted research on local security networks, police lethal force and the interaction between experts and policy makers, as well as the acquisition of expert advice in the formulation of policy responses…

Lydie Cabane is senior Assistant Professor at the Institute for Security and Global Affairs. Her main interests include crises, governance, public policy, states, expertise, European Union and global politics.

Constance Maly is a PhD candidate in European Studies at the Institute of Political Science.

Daniela Vicherat Mattar (PhD European University Institute) convenes the Culture, History and Society major. Trained as a sociologist, her research focuses on cities, citizenship and, more recently, care. She’s interested in how dominant ideas about belonging translate in urban forms and infrastructures…

Anna Marhold is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Public Law and the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies at Leiden University. Her specialization is international economic law, with a particular focus on international trade law at the intersection of energy and environmental regulat…

Fernando Lusa Bordin is Professor of Institutional Law (holding the Schermers Chair, financed by the Prof. mr. H.G. Schermers Fund) at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies at Leiden University, and Associate Professor in Law at Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge.

Jens Iverson is an assistant professor at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies, (Law Faculty, Leiden University) a position he has held since 2014.

Professor Willemien den Ouden is Professor of Constitutional and Administrative Law at Leiden Law School and a Research Fellow of the E.M. Meijers Institute of Legal Scientific Research (one day a week). She is also a State Councillor at the Administrative Jurisdiction Division at the Dutch Council…

Dr. Joseph Powderly joined the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies as an Assistant Professor of Public International Law in March 2011, and was appointed Associate Professor in September 2018. He is Director of the Grotius PhD Track Programme and lectures in international criminal law, international…

Dr. Robert Heinsch has been a staff member of the Grotius Centre since 1 March 2009. First as an Assistant Professor, and since April 2013 as an Associate Professor of International Law.

Cecily Rose is an associate professor of public international law in the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies. She joined the faculty as an assistant professor in September 2013.

Kate Kirk is Programme Leader Diversity and Inclusion at the Leiden University Centre for Professional Learning (CPL). She has a PhD and more than a decade of experience in academic education and research. In her research she made use of multilevel analysis of migration and integration policies and…

Edwin Bakker is professor in Terrorism and Counterterrorism at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs in The Hague. His fields of research are radicalisation, jihadi terrorism and in particular profiles of (jihadi) terrorists. In addition, his research is focussed on dealing with (fear of) terrorism…

Ayokunu (‘Ayo’) Adedokun is a political scientist, international development specialist and peacebuilding practitioner. His research focuses on the roles of local actors and the international community in peacebuilding, terrorism and counter-terrorism strategies, democratization and good governance…

Jelle Brands (1985) works as assistant professor at the Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology.

Pieter Slaman is Leiden University's university historian, with support of the A.E. Cohen Foundation. He is also a specialist in the history of education. His book ‘De glazen Toren. De Leidse Universiteit 1970-2020’ covered the institutional and cultural developments at Leiden university since the 1…

Patrick van der Meij (1978) is professor by special appointment of Criminal Law Practice and a partner and criminal defence lawyer at law firm Cleerdin & Hamer Advocaten in Amsterdam. He studied Dutch law from 1996 to 2001 at Leiden University specialising in criminal and criminal procedural law.

Manuel Cabal is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Political Science.

Jonathan Phillips is an Assistant Professor in the Politics of Development at the Institute of Political Science.

Dr Melanie Fink is Associate Professor of European Law at Leiden University. Her research explores the intersection of digital public administration and EU law from an individual rights perspective. She is particularly interested in administrative justice in the automated state, accountability and access…

Giles Scott Smith is Dean of Leiden University College The Hague.

Simon Otjes is assistant professor Dutch Politics.

Adina Akbik is Associate Professor of European Politics and Director of Educational Transition (Graduate Studies Portfolio) at the Institute of Political Science.

Mohit Khubchandani is a Ph.D. Candidate at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies at Leiden University. His topic is: