Grotius Centre
Working Paper Series
The Grotius Centre Working Paper Series is an occasional series through which researchers in the Grotius Centre can publish the unedited versions of manuscripts that have been accepted for publication by journals and books.
Year
Papers Published 2025
- Grotius Working Paper 2025/109 IEL:Jens Iverson, Why Israel should protect, supply, and rebuild water resources and infrastructure in the Gaza Strip: law, ethics, and prudence
- Grotius Working Paper 2025/108 IEL: Danëlla Dam-de Jong, From Green to Sustainable Regionalism: Why Does It Matter and How Are We Doing? A Case Study of the EU Raw Materials Regulation
Papers Published 2024
- Grotius Working Paper 2024/107 IEL: Letizia Lo Giacco, Exercising Discretion Against the General Interest: Unearthing the Doctrine of Abuse of Rights in Public International Law
- Grotius Working Paper 2024/106 IEL: Letizia Lo Giacco, Rethinking Transparency Through The Public-Private Prism: The Case of the ICC-NGOs Partnership
- Grotius Working Paper 2024/105 IEL: Letizia Lo Giacco, Giving Meaning to the Past: Historical and Legal Modes of Thinking
Papers published in 2023
- Grotius Working Paper 2023/104 IEL: Cecily Rose, Magnitsky Sanctions, Corruption, and Asset Recovery
- Grotius Working Paper 2023/103 IEL: Daniel Peat and Cecily Rose, The Changing Landscape of International Law Scholarship Do Funding Bodies Influence What We Research?
- Grotius Working Paper 2023/102 IEL: Sze Hong Lam, Unequal Treaties: revisiting China’s approaches toward colonial injustice
Papers published in 2022
- Grotius Centre Working Paper 2022/097-IEL: Eric de Brabandere, The 2019 Dutch Model Bilateral Investment Treaty Navigating the Turbulent Ocean of Investment Treaty Reform
- Grotius Centre Working Paper 2022/098-IEL: Eric de Brabandere, Overriding Mandatory Provisions and Arbitrability in International Arbitration: the Case of Multilateral and Unilateral Sanctions
- Grotius Centre Working Paper 2022/099-IEL: Eric de Brabandere, International Investment Law and Human Rights
- Grotius Centre Working Paper 2022/100-IEL: Brian McGarry, Achieving Greater Access to Justice through Cost-Efficiency: A Comparative Assessment Across State to-State Dispute Settlement Institutions
- Grotius Centre Working Paper 2022/101-PIL: Brian McGarry, Norms, Standards, and the Elusive Nomenclature of the Gabčíkovo-Nagymaros Judgment
Papers published in 2021
- Grotius Centre Working Paper 2021/094-IEL: Eric de Brabandere, The (Ir)relevance of Transnational Public Policy in Investment Treaty Arbitration: A reply to Jean-Michel Marcoux
- Grotius Centre Working Paper 2021/095-IEL: Eric de Brabandere, International Investment Law and Arbitration in Cyberspace
- Grotius Centre Working Paper 2021/096-IEL: Eric de Brabandere, Unilateral Sanctions through an Arbitration Lens
Papers Published 2020
- Grotius Centre Working Paper 2020/093-ICL: Cale Davis, Challenges in Charge Selection: Considerations informing the number of charges and cumulative charging practices
- Grotius Centre Working Paper 2020/092-ICL: Cale Davis, Doing 'Justice' at the Office of the Prosecutor: Portrayals of a Cultural Value
- Grotius Centre Working Paper 2020/091-IEL: Eric de Brabandere, International Investment Law and Social Rights: Interactions and Encounters
- Grotius Centre Working Paper 2020/090-IEL: Eric de Brabandere, Amicus Curiae Intervention: From NAFTA to the Intra-EU Saga
- Grotius Centre Working Paper 2020/089-IEL: Eric de Brabandere and Larissa van den Herik, Non-State Actors and Human Rights Obligations: Perspectives from International Investment Law and Arbitration
- Grotius Centre Working Paper 2020/088-IEL: Eric de Brabandere, Case Comment: Mathias Kruck and Others v Spain: Challenges to Arbitrators
- Grotius Centre Working Paper 2020/087-IEL: Eric de Brabandere and Paula Baldini Miranda da Cruz, The Role of Proportionality in International Investment Law and Arbitration: A System-Specific Perspective
- Grotius Centre Working Paper 2020/086-HRL: Helen Duffy, Trials and Tribulations: Co-Applicability of IHL and Human Rights in an Age of Adjudication
Papers Published 2019
- Grotius Centre Working Paper 2019/084-PSL: Helen Duffy and Larissa van den Herik, Terrorism: A central role for the Security Council and a space of unaccountability
- Grotius Centre Working Paper 2019/083-PIL: Larissa van den Herik, Article 51’s reporting requirement as a space for legal argument and factfulness
Papers Published 2018
- Grotius Centre Working Paper 2018/082-PIL: Larissa van den Herik and Emma Irving, Due Diligence and the Obligation to Prevent Genocide and Crimes against Humanity
- Grotius Centre Working Paper 2018/081-PIL: Eric de Brabandere, Measures of Constraint and the Immunity of International Organisations
- Grotius Centre Working Paper 2018/080-IEL: Eric de Brabandere, Amicus Curiae (investment arbitration)
- Grotius Centre Working Paper 2018/079-IEL: Eric de Brabandere, (Re)caliberation, Standard-Setting and the Shaping of Investment Law and Arbitration
- Grotius Centre Working Paper 2018/078-IEL: Eric de Brabandere, Human Rights Counterclaims in Investment Treaty Arbitration
- Grotius Centre Working Paper 2018/077-ICL: Jens Iverson, Disarming the Trap: Evaluating Prosecutorial Discretion in Preliminary Examinations beyond the False Dichotomy of Politics and Law
- Grotius Centre Working Paper 2018/076-HRL: Helen Duffy and Kate Pitcher, Inciting Terrorism? Crimes of Expression and the Limits of the Law
- Grotius Centre Working Paper 2018/075-HRL: Eric de Brabendere, Human Rights and International Investment Law
- Grotius Centre Working Paper 2018/074-ICL: Carsten Stahn, Liberals vs. Romantics: Challenges of an Emerging Corporate International Criminal Law
- Grotius Centre Working Paper 2018/073-ICL: Daniëlla Dam-de Jong, Ignorantia Facti Excusat? The Viability of Due Diligence as a Model to Establish International Criminal Accountability for Corporate Actors Purchasing Natural Resources from Conflict Zones
- Grotius Centre Working Paper 2018/072-PSL: Jens Iverson, War Aims Matter: Keeping Jus Contra Bellum Restrictive While Requiring the Articulation of the Goals of the Use of Force
- Grotius Centre Working Paper 2018/071-PIL: Ramses A Wessel, Studying International and European Law: Confronting Perspectives and Combining Interests
Papers Published 2017
- Grotius Centre Working Paper 2017/070-PIL: Cecily Rose, Treaty Monitoring and Compliance in the Field of Transnational Criminal Law
- Grotius Centre Working Paper 2017/069-ICL: Catherine Harwood, The UN Independent Investigation Commission in Lebanon
- Grotius Centre Working Paper 2017/068-PIL: Evelien Campfens, Whose Cultural Heritage? Crimean Treasures at the Crossroads of Politics, Law and Ethics
- Grotius Centre Working Paper 2017/067-PIL: Evelien Campfens, Nazi-looted art: a note in favour of clear standards and neutral procedures
- Grotius Centre Working Paper 2017/066-ICL: Larissa van den Herik and Elies van Sliedregt, International Criminal Law and the Malabo Protocol: About Scholarly Reception, Rebellion and Role Models
- Grotius Centre Working Paper 2017/065-PSL: Catherine Harwood and Larissa van den Herik, Commissions of Inquiry and Questions of Jus ad Bellum
- Grotius Centre Working Paper 2017/064-SDL: Daniëlla Dam-de Jong and James Stewart, Illicit Exploitation of Natural Resources
- Grotius Centre Working Paper 2017/063-IEL: Eric de Brabandere, Fair and Equitable Treatment and (Full) Protection and Security in African Investment Treaties: Between Generality and Contextual Specificity
- Grotius Centre Working Paper 2017/062-IEL: Eric de Brabandere and Saskia Lemeire, The jurisdiction ratione temporis of international investment tribunals: Some observations on the Decision of the Tribunal in Ping An v Belgium
- Grotius Centre Working Paper 2017/061-HRL: Sergey Vasiliev, Cross Fertilisation under the Looking Glass: Transjudicial Grammar and the Reception of Strasbourg Jurisprudence by International Criminal Tribunals
- Grotius Centre Working Paper 2017/060-PIL: Zsuzsanna Deen-Racsmány, The Relevance of Disciplinary Authority and Criminal Jurisdiction to Locating Effective Control under the ARIO
- Grotius Centre Working Paper 2017/056-HRL: Eric de Brabandere and Maryse Hazelzet, Corporate Responsibility and Human Rights: Navigating between international, domestic and self-regulation
Papers Published 2016
- Grotius Centre Working Paper 2016/059-IEL: Eric De Brabandere, ‘Mercantile Adventurers’? The Disclosure of Third-Party Funding in Investment Treaty Arbitration
- Grotius Centre Working Paper 2016/058-IEL: Eric De Brabandere and David Holloway, Sanctions and International Arbitration
- Grotius Centre Working Paper 2016/057-PIL: Eric De Brabandere, The Use of Precedent and External Case-Law by the International Court of Justice and the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea
- Grotius Centre Working Paper 2016/055-IEL: Eric De Brabandere, States’ Reassertion of Control over International Investment Law - (Re)Defining ‘Fair and Equitable Treatment’ and ‘Indirect Expropriation’
- Grotius Centre Working Paper 2016/054-ICL: Catherine Harwood, Contributions of international commissions of inquiry to transitional justice
- Grotius Centre Working Paper 2016/053-PIL: Cecily Rose, Non-Binding Instruments and Democratic Accountability
- Grotius Centre Working Paper 2016/052-PIL: Niels Blokker, Asian and Pacific International Organizations: Mainstream or Sui Generis? An International Institutional Law Perspective
- Grotius Centre Working Paper 2016/051-IEL: Yannick Radi, Labour Provisions and Dispute Settlement in International Investment Agreements
Papers Published 2015
- Grotius Centre Working Paper 2015/050-IEL: Cecily Rose, The Limitations of a Human Rights Approach to Corruption
- Grotius Centre Working Paper 2015/049-IEL: Eric De Brabandere, Complementarity or Conflict? Contrasting the Yukos-case before the European Court of Human Rights and Investment Tribunals
- Grotius Centre Working Paper 2015/048-IEL: Eric De Brabandere, Jus Post Bellum and Foreign Direct Investment – Mapping the Debate
- Grotius Centre Working Paper 2015/047- ICL: Zsuzsanna Deen-Racsmány, Towards A Convention on the Criminal Accountability of UN Personnel including UN Military Experts on Mission and UN Police Officers: Whom?
- Grotius Centre Working Paper 2015/046-PIL: Eric De Brabandere and Isabelle Van Damme, Good Faith in Treaty Interpretation
- Grotius Centre Working Paper 2015/045-IEL: Yannick Radi, International Investment Law and Development: A History of Two Concepts
- Grotius Centre Working Paper 2015/044-ICL: Larissa van den Herik, Accountability through Fact‐Finding: Appraising Inquiry in the Context of Srebrenica
- Grotius Centre Working Paper 2015/043-ICL: Catherine Harwood, Human Rights in Fancy Dress? The Use of International Criminal Law by Human Rights Council Commissions of Inquiry in Pursuit of Accountability
- Grotius Centre Working Paper 2015/042-IHL: Yannick Radi, Precedent, ‘Jurisprudences Constantes’ and Coherence in International Investment Arbitration: A Reappraisal of the Role of Earlier Decisions in the Practice of Arbitration Tribunals
Papers Published 2014
- Grotius Centre Working Paper 2014/041-IHL: Erik Koppe, The principle of ambituity and the prohibition against excessive collateral damage to the environment during armed conflict
- Grotius Centre Working Paper 2014/040-ICL: Dov Jacobs, The Frog That Wanted to Be an Ox: the ICC’s Approach to Immunities and Cooperation
- Grotius Centre Working Paper 2014/039-PSL: Eric De Brabandere, UN Post-Conflict Peacebuilding Activities – An Economic Reconstruction Perspective
- Grotius Centre Working Paper 2014/038-ICL: Larissa van den Herik, The decline of customary international law as a source of international criminal law
- Grotius Centre Working Paper 2014/037-ILT: Dov Jacobs, Targeting the State in Jus post Bellum: Towards a theory of Integrated Sovereignties
- Grotius Centre Working Paper 2014/036-SDL: Katinka Jesse and Erik Koppe, Business Enterprises and the Environment
- Grotius Centre Working Paper 2014/034-IEL: Eric De Brabandere, The Settlement of Investment Disputes in the Energy Sector
- Grotius Centre Working Paper 2014/033-IEL: Jacomijn J van Haersolte–Van Hof and Erik Koppe, International arbitration and the lex arbitri ()
- Grotius Centre Working Paper 2014/032-ICL: Dov Jacobs, Jumping Hurdles Backwards: The Armenian Genocide and the International Criminal Court
- Grotius Centre Working Paper 2014/031-ICL: Larissa van den Herik, An Inquiry into the Role of Commissions of Inquiry in International Law: Navigating the Tensions between Fact-Finding and International Law-Application
- Grotius Centre Working Paper 2014/030-IHL: Erik Koppe, Climate Change and Human Security during Armed Conflict
- Grotius Centre Working Paper 2014/029-PSL: Zsuzsanna Deen-Racsmány, “Exclusive” Criminal Jurisdiction over UN Peacekeepers and the UN Project(s) on Criminal Accountability: A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy?
- Grotius Centre Working Paper 2014/028-IEL: Eric De Brabandere, Teinver S.A., Transportes de Cercanías S.A. and Autobuses Urbanos del Sur S.A. v. The Argentine Republic
- Grotius Centre Working Paper 2014/027-IEL: Cecily Rose, Circumstantial Evidence, Adverse Inferences, and Findings of Corruption: Metal-Tech v. The Republic of Uzbekistan
- Grotius Centre Working Paper 2014/026-PSL: Larissa van den Herik, Peripheral hegemony in the quest to ensure Security Council accountability for its individualized UN sanctions regimes
- Grotius Centre Working Paper 2014/025-PIL: Eric De Brabandere, 'Importing' Consent to ICSID Arbitration? A Critical Appraisal of the Decision of the ICSID Arbitral Tribunal in Garanti Koza v. Turkmenistan
- Grotius Centre Working Paper 2014/024-PIL: Niels Blokker, Constituent Instruments: Creating a genie that may escape from the bottle?
- Grotius Centre Working Paper 2014/023-IEL: Vid Prislan and Ruben Zandvliet, Mainstreaming Sustainable Development into International Investment Agreements: What Role for Labor Provisions?
- Grotius Centre Working Paper 2014/022-ILT: Carsten Stahn and Eric De Brabandere, The Future of International Legal Scholarship: Some Thoughts on ‘Practice’, ‘Growth’ and ‘Dissemination’
- Grotius Centre Working Paper 2014/021-PIL: Cecily Rose, The protection of communications between states and their counsel in international dispute settlement
- Grotius Centre Working Paper 2014/020-IHL: Larissa van den Herik and Helen Duffy, Human Rights Bodies and International Humanitarian Law: Common but Differentiated Approaches
- Grotius Centre Working Paper 2014/019-PIL: Eric De Brabandere, Belgian Courts and the Immunity of International Organizations
- Grotius Centre Working Paper 2014/018-PIL: Shashank Kumar and Cecily Rose, A Study of Lawyers Appearing before the International Court of Justice, 1999-2012
- Grotius Centre Working Paper 2014/017-ICL: Carsten Stahn and Dov Jacobs, Human Rights Fact-Finding and International Criminal Proceedings: Towards a Polycentric Model of Interaction
- Grotius Centre Working Paper 2014/016-ICL: Larissa van den Herik and Catherine Harwood, Sharing the Law: The Appeal of International Criminal Law for International Commissions of Inquiry
- Grotius Centre Working Paper 2014/015-IEL: Eric De Brabandere, The Concept of Jus Post Bellum in International Law: A Normative Critique
Papers Published 2013
- Grotius Centre Working Paper 2013/014-IEL: Yannick Radi, The ‘Culture of Balancing’ of International Investment Law - Cultural Interests and Investors’ Interests in International Investment Treaties and Arbitration
- Grotius Centre Working Paper 2013/013-PSL: Carsten Stahn, Between Law-Breaking and Law-Making: Syria, Humanitarian Intervention and ‘What the Law Ought to Be’
- Grotius Centre Working Paper 2013/012-IHL: Robert Heinsch, Methodology of Law-Making: Customary International Law and New Military Technologies
- Grotius Centre Working Paper 2013/011-IEL: Vid Prislan, Non-Investment Obligations in Investment Treaty Arbitration – Towards a Greater Role for States?
- Grotius Centre Working Paper 2013/010-IEL: Yannick Radi, The Tripartite Dimension of Conflicts of Interests – Workers, Foreign Investors and Host States in the Energy Sector
- Grotius Centre Working Paper 2013/009-PSL: Carsten Stahn, Syria and the Semantics of Intervention, Aggression and Punishment: On ‘Red Lines’ and ‘Blurred Lines’
- Grotius Centre Working Paper 2013/008-ICL: Jens Iverson, Transitional Justice, Jus Post Bellum and International Criminal Law: Differentiating the Usages, History and Dynamics
- Grotius Centre Working Paper 2013/007-ICL: Dov Jacobs and Catherine Harwood, International Criminal Law Outside the Courtroom: The Impact of Focusing on International Crimes for the Quality of Fact-Finding by International Commissions of Inquiry
- Grotius Centre Working Paper 2013/006-IEL: Yannick Radi, The ‘Human Nature’ of International Investment Law
- Grotius Centre Working Paper 2013/005-PSL: Larissa van den Herik, Corporate Responsibility and Human Rights – Navigating between international, domestic and self-regulation
- Grotius Centre Working Paper 2013/004-ICL: Dov Jacobs, A Shifting Scale of Power: who is in Charge of the Charges at the International Criminal Court and the uses of Regulation 55
- Grotius Centre Working Paper 2013/003-IEL: Vid Prislan and Ruben Zandvliet, Labor Provisions in International Investment Agreements: Prospects for Sustainable Development)
- Grotius Centre Working Paper 2013/002-ICL: Larissa van den Herik, Economic, Social and Cultural Rights - International Criminal Law’s Blind Spot?
- Grotius Centre Working Paper 2013/001-IEL: Eric De Brabandere, Human Rights Considerations in International Investment Arbitration