Nico Schrijver

Nico Schrijver (born on May 21st, 1954 in Warmenhuizen) is Professor of International Law and Academic Director of the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies, Leiden University and a member of the Senate of the Dutch House of Parliament.

Political Career

In the Senate Nico Schrijver is the Labour Party’s spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, Development Co-operation, Agriculture and Immigration and serves as the vice-chair of the Senate Committee on European Affairs. Schrijver is also visiting professor of The European Union and Co-operation with Developing Countries at the Universite libre de Bruxelles and the Institute of Law of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.

He is also a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and the chairperson of its Section on Legal Sciences. From 2010 to 2012 he served as the President of the worldwide International Law Association. Furthermore, he is a member and vice-chair of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration and associate member of the Institut de droit international.

Education

Nico Schrijver studied Dutch Law at the University of Groningen from 1972 until 1978.

Notable Work

Among many other publications Nico Schrijver is the author of Sovereignty over Natural Resources. Balancing rights and duties (Cambridge: CUP, 1997), The Evolution of Sustainable Development in International Law (Leiden: Brill, 2008; Chinese edition with Social Sciences Academic Press, Beijing, 2010), and Development without Destruction. The UN and Global Resource Management (Bloomington: IUP, 2010; with the 2012 award of the Academic Council United Nations System for the best recent book on UN issues).

External Links

Universiteit Leiden – Prof. Dr. N. Schrijver

Eerste Kamer der Staten-Generaal – Nico Schrijver