Ocean Lam
PhD candidate / self funded
- Name
- S.H. Lam
- Telephone
- 071 5272727
- s.h.lam@law.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-3481-4665
Sze Hong Lam has been an internal PhD candidate at the Grotius Centre of International Legal Studies of the Leiden University since August 2021. He had formerly interned at the Legal Office of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) and the Office of the Prosecutor of the United Nations International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT). He has written in the areas of international humanitarian law, international human rights law, international criminal law, and the right to self-determination. His research focuses on the history of international law and territorial autonomies in the context of territorial readjustments.
PhD candidate / self funded
- Faculty of Law
- Institute of Public Law
- Grotius Centre for Intern Legal Studies
Contact
- Márquez Velásquez M.M. & Lam S.H. (22 August 2025), Too unfit to face justice?. Leiden Law Blog (Leiden University). [blog entry].
- Lam S.H. (2024), The gentle civilizer of the far east: a re-examination of the encounter between ‘China’ and ‘international law’, Journal of the History of International Law 26(1): 1-45.
- Lam S.H. (2022), Should the ICC accept Taiwan’s delegation of ad hoc criminal jurisdiction?: A debate on Taiwan’s functional statehood in the context of Article 12(3) of the Rome Statute, Cambridge International Law Journal 11(1): 51-74.
- Lam S.H. (21 October 2022), To Perfect the Imperfect Title: How Referenda were Historically Manipulated to Justify Territorial Conquest by Nations. EJIL: Talk!: European Journal of International Law. [blog entry].
- Lam S.H. & Hung W.A. (12 November 2022), Short of War: Is the World Ready to Defend Taiwan?. The National Interest. Washington D.C.: Center for the National Interest. [web article].