The ACIL hosts PhD research in the field of public international law, including international criminal law in accordance with the ACIL Research Programmes.

THE INTERNATIONAL RULE OF LAW

ACIL Reseachers

1. Denis Abels
   Prisoners of the International Community
2. Christiane Ahlborn
   Responsibility of member states of an international organisation
3. Gaetano Best
   The suitability of national criminal procedures for the investigation and prosecution of international crimes
4. Bérénice Boutin
   Issues of shared responsibility in military operations under the aegis of an international organization
5. Lisa Clarke
   The emergence of "international partnerships" consisting of international organisations and private entities within the international constitutional order
6. Nienke van der Have
   The obligation to prevent gross human rights violations
7. Stephan Hollenberg
   The emerging international value sytem and the reestablishing of (domestic) legal control over the exercise of public power directed at private individuals
8. Louwrens Kiestra
   The impact of the emerging international value system on private international law through public order clauses
9. Erik Kok
   The principle of complicity in the law of state responsibility
10. Catharina Koops
    The effectiveness of (non-)infringement procedures in the EU and other international organizations
11. Karel de Meester
    The Pre-Trial Phase in International Criminal Proceedings
12. David Moszkowicz
    Just war and human rights: the philosophy and law of humanitarian intervention
13. Anne van Mulligen
    The normativity of international law
14. Amaka Okany
    State responsibility for the conduct of entities exercising elements of governmental authority
15. Evelien van Roemburg
    Sixty years of exclusion - A problematic marriage of international refugee law and criminal law
16. Isabelle Swerissen
    Responsibility and burden sharing agreements in international refugee law
17. Kelly Pitcher
    Addressing procedural violations committed during the investigative and pre-trial phases of national and international criminal proceedings
18. Tim Staal
    The framing and taming of post-national rulemaking by international institutions
19. Cassandra Steer
    Translating Guilt: Individual liability for collective crimes in international criminal law
20. Antonietta Trapani
    Elements of international crimes, as applied by domestic jurisdictions
21. Sergey Vasiliev
    The Nature and Organisation of International Criminal Trials
22. Annemieke van Verseveld
    Mistake of law. Excusing Perpetrators of International Crimes.
23. Koen Vriend 
    The law of evidence in (international) criminal proceedings and fair trial implications
24. Krit Zeegers
    The application of international human rights in the field of international criminal law

External Ph.D. Researchers

1. Evelyn Campos Sanchez
   Remedies in Cases of Aggravated International Responsibility 
2. Ieva Miluna
   Impact of the UN General Assembly and the UN Security Council determinations on state responsibility
3. Res Schuerch
   The ICC in The Hague: universal instrument to fight most serious crimes or promotor of legal neocolonialism?
4. Chris Soler
   The global prosecution of core crimes under international law
5. Sepideh Tabatabaie
   Post-Election Violence in International Criminal Law
6. Nout van Woudenberg
   Immunity from Seizure of Cultural Objects of Foreign States; a Rule of Customary International Law?

THE ROLE OF LAW IN ARMED CONFLICT AND PEACE OPERATIONS

External Ph.D. Researchers

1. Rogier Bartels
   The legal regime of transnational armed conflicts under international humanitarian law
2. Hans Boddens Hosang
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3. Jeroen van den Boogaard
   Proportionality as a guiding principle in the law of armed conflict
4. Hanna Brollowski
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5. Martin Fink
   De toepassing van het zeeoorlogsrecht in contemporaine maritieme operaties
6. Katharine Fortin
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7. Maurits Gorlee
   Improving accountability and responsibility of private military contractors and security companies
8. Eric Pouw
   Applicability and application of international humanitarian law and human rights law in contemporary counterinsurgency operations  
9. Joop Voetelink
   Status of forces in international and operational legal perspective