SIM verwelkomt trots drie nieuwe fellows

SIM, het Studie- en Informatiecentrum Mensenrechten aan de Universiteit Utrecht is verwelkomt trots drie nieuwe fellows! Dr. Machiko Kanetake, Dr. Pauline Jacobs en Dr. Lucas Roorda.

(Dit bericht gaat verder in het Engels)

SIM created the affiliation of 'SIM fellows' to highlight the work of those researchers and lecturers in other departments of the law school that also work substantively on human rights issues (ranging from constitutional law, to criminal law, and international law e.g.). Our SIM fellows form a wider network of cooperation across legal sub-field within Utrecht Law School, and contribute on a regular basis to SIM's work, ranging from guest lectures to co-organising events.

Machiko Kanetake is Assistant Professor of Public International Law at Utrecht University. She is also a senior editor of the Leiden Journal of International Law. Her research as a SIM fellow is guided by two inter-related domains: the interfaces between national and international law; and the interactions between international security law and international human rights law. She has previously developed the conceptual framework on the ‘Interfaces between National and International Rule of Law’, which served as the framework for her edited volume (Hart Publishing 2016). Based on a number of domestic court decisions, she has developed an original analysis into the domestic judicial engagement with UN human rights treaty-monitoring bodies, as published by International & Comparative Law Quarterly (2018) among others. She received the G.J. Wiarda Prize 2019 for her ICLQ article. She has also been coordinating the research platform on technological innovation within the Utrecht Centre for Global Challenges (2018-2020).

Pauline Jacobs is Assistant Professor in criminal law and criminal procedure at the W.P.J. Pompe Institute for Criminal Law and Criminology of Utrecht University. She is affiliated with the Montaigne Center for Rule of Law and the Administration of Justice. Pauline’s research and teaching activities are focussed on criminal (procedure) law and human rights and penitentiary law. In 2016 she worked on an EU-funded European research on the theory and practice of alternatives to pre-trial detention. In 2018 and 2019 she was the national coordinator on an EU-funded research on legal aid for remand prisoners. She has published extensively on e.g. pre-trial detention and human rights, the legal position of prisoners and European and international prison oversight mechanisms, such as the National Preventive Mechanism (NPM). Pauline is a member of the editorial board of ‘Nederlands Tijdschrift voor de Mensenrechten’ (the leading Dutch Human Rights Review) and a member of the Council for the Administration of Criminal Justice and Protection of Juveniles (Raad voor Strafrechtstoepassing en Jeugdbescherming), department administration of justice.  

Lucas Roorda is assistant professor at the section International and European Law at Utrecht University, and a postdoc at the Utrecht Centre for Accountability and Liability Law (UCALL). He obtained his Phd in 2019, on jurisdiction in transnational civil cases concerning corporate human rights abuses. He has worked and published on the interaction between public international law, private international law and human rights law when faced with adverse human rights impacts by non-state actors. He has previously worked as a policy advisor for the Netherlands Human Rights Institute (College voor de Rechten van de Mens), in issues including privacy, the right to housing and access to court. He is currently engaged in research on how human rights can be better integrated in liability regimes governing private conduct, especially conduct by transnational corporations.