Hierarchy in International Law
The Place of Human Rights
Edited by Erika De Wet and Jure Vidmar
Author Information
Edited by Erika De Wet, Co-Director and Professor of International Law, Institute for International and Comparative Law in Africa, University of Pretoria; Professor of International Constitutional Law, University of Amsterdam, and Jure Vidmar, Anglo-German Fellow, Institute of European and Comparative Law, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford
Erika de Wet is Co-Director of the Institute for International and Comparative Law in Africa and Professor of International Law at the University of Pretoria. Between 2004 and 2010, she was a full-time (tenured) Professor of Constitutional Law at the Amsterdam Center for International Law, University of Amsterdam, a position which she still holds part-time. She further lectures in international law at the University of Zurich and the University of Bonn on a regular basis. Between 2007 and 2010 she served as a member of the Advisory Committee on Issues of Public International Law of the Netherlands (CAVV).
Jure Vidmar is an Anglo-German Fellow in the Institute of European and Comparative Law, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford. Previously, Jure worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the Amsterdam Center for International Law, Faculty of Law, University of Amsterdam. He is a member of the editorial board of the Hague Yearbook of International Law. Jure's main research and teaching interests lie within public international law, human rights, European law, and political theory. In recent years, Jure's publications have mainly covered topics such as the creation, recognition and delimitation of states; human rights and democracy; the right of self-determination; the right to political participation and democratisation theory. Jure holds a doctorate in politics from the University of Salzburg as well as an LLM and PhD in law from the University of Nottingham.
Contributors:
Bertram Boie - World Trade Institute
Geoff Gilbert - University of Essex
Susan Karamanian - George Washington University
Riccardo Pavoni - University of Siena
Dinah Shelton - George Washington University
Antonios Tzanakopoulos - University of Glasgow
Philippa Webb - Legal consultant
Harmen van der Wilt - University of Amsterdam
Andreas Ziegler - University of Lausanne
