Prof. dr. Menno T. Kamminga (Professor of International Law)
Bouillonstraat 1-3
Room B 1.112
Maastricht
P.O. Box 616
NL-6200 MD Maastricht
The Netherlands
Phone: +31 43 3884881
Fax: + 31 43 3884907
E-mail: m.kamminga@maastrichtuniversity.nl
List of publications: Metis
Curriculum vitae
Professor of International Law and Director of the Maastricht Centre for Human Rights (since 2000). (Senior) Lecturer in International Law at Erasmus University Rotterdam (1987-2000). Legal Adviser at the International Secretariat of Amnesty International in London (1978-1987). Chair of the Netherlands Government’s Advisory Committee on Questions of Public International Law and member of the Netherlands Government’s Advisory Committee on Human Rights. Chair of the Netherlands School of Human Rights Research. Member of the Board of Editors of the Netherlands International Law Review. Trustee of the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre. Master degrees in international law and international relations from Groningen University (1973) and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (1974). Ph.D. from Leiden University (1990).
Main publications
The Impact of Human Rights Law on General International Law, ed., with M. Scheinin (Oxford University Press: 2009). Methods of Human Rights Research, ed., with F. Coomans and F. Grünfeld (Intersentia: 2009), Extraterritorial Application of Human Rights Treaties, ed., with F. Coomans (Intersentia: 2004). Inaugural lecture: De humanisering van het volkenrecht [The Humanization of International Law] (Universitaire Pers Maastricht: 2001). Liability of Multinational Corporations under International Law, ed., with S. Zia-Zarifi (Kluwer Law International: 2000). Volkenrechtelijke aansprakelijkheid van de staat jegens het individu [State Responsibility towards the Individual], Mededelingen van de Nederlandse Vereniging voor Internationaal Recht No. 115 (1997) 5-49. Ph.D. dissertation: Inter-State Accountability for Violations of Human Rights (University of Pennsylvania Press: 1992).
Expertise
General international law, international dispute settlement, international human rights law, international humanitarian law.
