Daniel Peat
Assistant professor
- Name
- Dr. D.C. Peat
- Telephone
- +31 70 800 9914
- d.c.peat@law.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-3063-2282
Daniel is Assistant Professor of Public International Law at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies at Leiden Law School. He is Academic Coordinator of the Advanced LLM on International Dispute Settlement and Arbitration and Director of the Leiden International Administrative Law Clinic.
Before joining Leiden University, Daniel worked at the International Court of Justice as an Associate Legal Officer for Judge Abdulqawi A. Yusuf. He was awarded a PhD in Law from the University of Cambridge, where he was a member of Gonville & Caius College and a recipient of the WM Tapp Studentship.
Daniel’s first monograph, Comparative Reasoning in International Courts and Tribunals (Cambridge University Press 2019) won the European Society of International Law Book Prize in 2020. He has published articles in the British Yearbook of International Law, the N.Y.U. Journal of International Law & Politics, the Journal of International Dispute Settlement, and the Journal of World Trade & Investment, amongst others. Daniel also co-edited Interpretation in International Law (Oxford University Press 2015) with Andrea Bianchi and Matthew Windsor.
Daniel’s current research focusses on compliance with international legal obligations, exploring how insights from the behavioural social sciences might be used to understand the behaviour of actors in international law. His current research is funded by the Norwegian Research Council as part of the COPIID project and by the Leids Universiteits Fonds.
In 2022, Daniel founded the Leiden International Administrative Law Clinic, in which students assist lawyers that give pro bono advice to those that work for international organisations. He is also co-authoring a treatise on international administrative law, which will be published by Cambridge University Press.
Daniel is a member of the Board of the European Society of International Law, a member of the Editorial Board of the Leiden Journal of International Law, a member of the Advisory Board of the International Community Law Review, and a member of the ISDS Academic Forum. He also acted as co-rapporteur of the International Law Association Study Group on the Content and Evolution of the Rules of Interpretation.
At Leiden, Daniel acts as Academic Coordinator for the Advanced LLM in International Dispute Settlement and Arbitration.
Assistant professor
- Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
- Instituut voor Publiekrecht
- Grotius Centre for Intern Legal Studies
- Lekkas S.I., Merkouris P. & Peat D.C. (2023), The Interpretative Practice of the International Court of Justice, Max Planck Yearbook of United Nations Law 26: 316-357.
- Peat D.C. & Rose C.E. (2022), International law from the outside: insights from the Dutch Research Council (NWO), Leiden Journal of International Law 35(1): 1-8.
- Peat D.C., Fikfak V. & Zee E. van der (2022), Behavioural compliance theory, Journal of International Dispute Settlement 13(2): 167-178.
- Peat D.C. (2022), Disciplining Rules?: Compliance, the Rules of Interpretation, and the Evaluative Dimension of Articles 31 and 32 of the VCLT, Netherlands International Law Review 69(2): 221-239.
- Peat D.C. (2022), Perception and process: towards a behavioural theory of compliance, Journal of International Dispute Settlement 13(2): 179-209.
- Fikfak V., Peat D.C. & Zee E. van der (2022), Bias in international law, German Law Journal 23(3): 281-297.
- De Brabandere E.C.P.D.C. & Peat D.C. (2021), Investment Arbitration Database. Leiden / The Hague: Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies. [database].
- Zee E. van der, Fikfak V. & Peat D.C. (2021), Introduction to the Symposium on Limitations of the Behavioral Turn in International Law, AJIL Unbound 115: 237-241.
- Peat D.C. (2021), The Tyranny of Choice and the Interpretation of Standards: Why the European Court of Human Rights Uses Consensus, NYU Journal of International Law and Politics 53(2): 381-432.
- Peat D.C. (8 June 2021), Rewarding Compliance: On Normative Implications of Rewarding in International Law. Völkerrechtsblog. [blog entry].
- Peat D.C. (15 September 2020), Comparative Reasoning in International Courts and Tribunals: A Response. EJIL:Talk!. [blog entry].
- Peat D.C. (14 September 2020), Comparative Reasoning in International Courts and Tribunals: A Very Brief Introduction. EJIL:Talk!. [blog entry].
- Peat D.C. (2020), Interpretation of Judgments: International Court of Justice (ICJ). In: Ruiz-Fabri H. (Ed.), Max Planck Encyclopedia of International Procedural Law. Max Planck Encyclopedia of International Procedural Law. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Peat D.C. (2019), Comparative Reasoning in International Courts and Tribunals. Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law no. 145. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Peat D.C. & Fitzmaurice M. (2018), The Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal and Treaty Interpretation. International Law Association Biennial Conference 2018 19 August 2018 - 24 August 2018.
- Peat D.C. & Merkouris P. (2018), The Interpretive Practice of the PCIJ/ICJ. International Law Association Biennial Conference 2018 19 August 2018 - 24 August 2018.
- Peat D.C. (2018), International Investment Law and the Public Law Analogy: The Fallacies of the General Principles Method, Journal of International Dispute Settlement 9(4): 654-678.
- Peat D.C. & Merkouris P. (2018), ILA Study Group on the Content and the Evolution of the Rules of Interpretation: Interim Report.
- Peat D.C. (2017), Interpretation and Domestic Law: The Prosecution of Rape at the International Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, Canadian Journal of Comparative and Contemporary Law 3(1): 97-131.
- Yusuf A.A. & Peat D.C. (2017), A Contrario Interpretation in the Jurisprudence of the International Court of Justice, Canadian Journal of Comparative and Contemporary Law 3(1): 1-18.
- Peat D.C. (2016) Book Review. Review of: Slocum B.G. (2015), Ordinary Meaning: A Theory of the Most Fundamental Principle of Legal Interpretation. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. The Cambridge Law Journal 75(3): 629-632.
- Peat D.C. & Barthelemy C. (2015), Trade Remedies in the Renewable Energy Sector: Normal Values and Double Remedies, The Journal of World Investment & Trade : .
- Bianchi A., Peat D.C. & Windsor M. (Eds.) (2015), Interpretation in International Law. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Peat D.C. & Windsor M. (2015), Playing the Game of Interpretation: On Meaning and Metaphor in International Law. In: Bianchi A. Peat D.C. Windsor M. (Ed.), Interpretation in International Law: Oxford University Press.
- Peat D.C. (2014) ‘Book Review: Jeremy Waldron, “Partly Laws Common to All Mankind”’. Review of: Waldron J., Partly Laws Common to All Mankind. The Cambridge Law Journal 73(3).
- Peat D.C. & Windsor M. (2014), An Interpretive Turn to Practice?, Cambridge International Law Journal 3(2): 444-449.
- Peat D.C. (2013), The Use of Court-Appointed Experts by the International Court of Justice, British Yearbook of International Law : .
- Peat D.C. (2013), Interpreting Reasons: The Interpretation of the 1962 Temple of Preah Vihear Judgment, Hague Yearbook of International Law = Annuaire de La Haye de droit international 26: 201.
- External Examiner