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Otto Spijkers is Assistant Professor of Public International Law at Utrecht University. He was also guest lecturer at the Université catholique d'Afrique centrale (Yaoundé, Cameroon) and Leiden University. Previously, he was a PhD candidate and lecturer at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies at the University of Leiden. His doctoral dissertation, entitled The United Nations, the Evolution of Global Values and International Law, was published with Intersentia in 2011. He also worked as public services coordinator at the Peace Palace Library, as international consultant for the United Nations International Law Fellowship Programme, as intern for the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, and as intern for the Office of Legal Affairs of United Nations Headquarters. Otto Spijkers is also editor and author of the Invisible College Blog, the blog of the School of Human Rights Research. 

Otto Spijkers studied the basics of international relations at the University of Sussex. He then studied international law at the University of Amsterdam, New York University School of Law (exchange student), and the Hague Academy of International Law (2009 session). He also studied philosophy at the University of Amsterdam and the University of Malta (exchange).  He also obtained a Diplôme approfondi de langue française. 

BOOKS 

• The United Nations, the Evolution of Global Values and International Law (dissertation), Intersentia, 2011.

ARTICLES 

• Editorial, Merkourios: Utrecht Journal of International and European Law, Vol 29, No 76 (2013). 
• with Natalia Jevglevskaja, 'Sustainable Development and High Seas Fisheries,' Utrecht Law Review, Volume 9, Issue 1, January 2013.
• 'Global values in the United Nations Charter,' Netherlands International Law Review, vol. 59 (2012), issue 3.
• 'The Netherlands’ and the United Nations’ Legal Responsibility for Srebrenica before the Dutch Courts,’ Military Law and the Law of War Review /Revue de Droit Militaire et de Droit de la Guerre, vol. 50 (2011).
• 'What’s running the world: global values, international law, and the United Nations,’ Interdisciplinary Journal of Human Rights Law, vol. 4, no. 1, 2009-2010.
• ‘De notie van wereldrecht vóór, tijdens, en na de oprichting van de Verenigde Naties,’ Nederlands Juristenblad, speciaal themanummer over ‘65 Jaar Wereldrecht,’ 2010.
• ‘The immunity of the United Nations in relation to the genocide in Srebrenica in the eyes of a Dutch District Court’, Journal of International Peacekeeping, vol. 13 (2009), no. 1-2.
•  ‘Legal mechanisms to establish accountability for the genocide in Srebrenica’, Human Rights & International Legal Discourse, vol. 1 (2007), no. 2.
• ‘Two Futures of Cosmopolitanism,’ Political Ethics and International Order: Annual Report 43. Societas Ethica, 2006.

 BOOK REVIEWS, CASE NOTES, INTERVIEWS, ETC. 

• Global Public Participation, editorial Human Rights School Newsletter, June 2012.
• Review of Justice for Sale (documentary), 4 June 2012, website Filmhuis The Hague
• Case Note of International Court of Justice, Application of the Interim Accord of 13 September 1995 and Jurisdictional Immunities of the State, Nederlands Juristenblad, vol. 87 (2012), pp. 673-676.
• Interview with Yves Daudet at the Peace Palace, Website of the PeacePalace Library, 20 January 2012.
• Interview with Rosalyn Higgins at the Peace Palace, Website of the PeacePalace Library, 22 December 2011.
• Book review of Mazower’s No Enchanted Palace, Leiden Journal of International Law, vol. 24 (2011), no. 1.
• Interview with Maarten den Heijer about extraterritorial asylum, Human Rights School Newsletter, January 2011. 
• ‘Book review of Bowring's The Degradation of the International Legal Order,' Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights, volume 28 (2010), no. 1. 

For working papers etc., see: http://ssrn.com/author=682994.

Tutor:

ULC Working group

Coordinator:

RGBK00250 Kernvak Internationaal en Europees recht I

RGMAGE300 General Course on Public International Law

RGMAIN700 International Law: Individual Research

RGMAMA300 Internship Masters International Law

RGMASC210 Thesis Public International Law

RGBOI0500 Public International Law: Selected Topics

Teacher:

RGMAGE300 General Course on Public International Law

RGBOI0500 Public International Law: Selected Topics

RGBK00250 Kernvak Internationaal en Europees recht I

RGMAIN600 International Law Moot Court