The Project Leaders
This international research project is co-headed by three reputable rule of law experts locates in three different countries:
André Nollkaemper
Director of the Amsterdam Center for International Law (ACIL) and Professor of Public International Law at the faculty of Law of the University of Amsterdam (UvA).
Nollkaemper is also a member of the Advisory Commission on Public International Law of the Netherlands as well as the Standing Committee of Experts in International Refugee and Criminal Law and of-counsel at Bohler, Franken Koppen Wijngaarden advocaten in Amsterdam. His practical experience includes cases before several international tribunals, courts of the Netherlands, and consultancy for a variety of international and national organisations. Previous academic positions include Fellow of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Erasmus University Rotterdam, Visiting Scholar at the School of Law, University of Washington, Seattle and Research fellow at the Netherlands Institute for the Law of the Sea (NILOS) / Institute of Public International Law, University of Utrecht. Research areas include general public international law; international responsibility, dispute settlement; the relationship between public international law and national law; international environmental law, and international water law.
Andre Nollkaemper elaborates on the project Internationalisation of Rule of Law. He focuses on the conflicts between the international and the domestic rule of law.
Randy Peerenboom
Director of the Rule of Law in China programme of the Foundation or Law, Justice and Society, an Associate Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, and a Law Professor at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia.
Peerenboom was a professor at UCLA Law School from 1998 to 2007, and has been a consultant to the Ford Foundation and the Asian Development Bank on legal reforms and rule of law in China. he earned a Masters in Chinese Religion for the University of Hawaii, a PhD in Comparative Philosophy from the University of Hawaii, and a JD from Columbia Law School. He is also a CIETAC arbitrator, and frequently serves as expert witness on Chinese legal issues. Recent books include China Modernizes: Threat to the West or Model for the Rest? (Oxford University Press, 2007) and China’s Long March toward Rule of Law (Cambridge University Press, 2002).
Randall Peerenboom shares his view on the project The Internationalisation of Rule of Law.
Michael Zürn
Director of the Research Unit "International Institutions and Transnational Conflicts" at the Social Science Research Center Berlin (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (WZB)).
Zürn has been a visiting professor at the University of Denver, Harvard University and the Center for Advanced Studies in Oslo and until recently he served as the Dean of the Hertie School of Governance. Before coming to Berlin, Zürn was a Professor for International and Transnational Relations at the University of Bremen, where he founded and chaired the Collaborative Research Center "Transformation of the State". He is a member of many academic boards, including the Senate of the German Research Association. Zürn is also a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences.
Michael Zürn elaborates on the project The Internationalisation of Rule of Law