Jean d'Aspremont

Jean d'Aspremont is a legal theorist and an international lawyer. He is a Professor of Law affiliated with Sciences Po Law School in Paris[1] as well as with the University of Manchester.[2] He is from the family of d'Aspremont Lynden (House of Lynden). Born in Belgium, he has both Belgian and French citizenships. Originally trained as an international lawyer, he has established himself as a critical legal theorist.

Early life and education

He was born and raised in Brussels, Belgium. He received his Ph.D in law from the Catholic University of Louvain in 2005. He received a LL.M from Cambridge University in 2001. He also studied at Saint-Louis University, Brussels (1995-1997) and the Catholic University of Leuven (1997-2000).

Academic career

After completing his PhD in French in 2005, he moved to the United States where he was affiliated with New York University (NYU). He returned to Europe in 2007 and was appointed lecturer in international law at the University of Leiden. He later moved to the University of Amsterdam where he became associate professor at the University of Amsterdam (2009 -2013) and later professor of international legal theory (2013-2017). He also was the Editor-in-Chief of the Leiden Journal of International Law in 2011. In 2012, he was appointed as a Professor of Public International Law at University of Manchester where he founded Manchester International Law Center (MILC) with Iain Scobbie.[3] In 2013, he was simultaneously appointed as a professor of international legal theory at University of Amsterdam. In 2017, he was appointed as a Professor of Law at Sciences Po School of Law.

He has produced extensively on wide breadth of topics of public international law and legal theory. He is especially known for his publications on the theory of international law, the theory of sources, state responsibility, and international organizations. He has published a dozen of monographs and edited volumes as well as more than a hundred of peer-reviewed articles and book chapters. Some of his articles and books have been translated in Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Hindi, Japanese and Persian.

He is a board member of several law journals and general editor of the Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law at Cambridge University Press. He also his general editor of the Melland Schill Studies in International Law at Manchester University Press. In 2017, he launched Oxford International Organization with Oxford University Press of which he is now the Editor-in-Chief with Catherïne Brölmann. He is one of the main authors of the 2020 Principles on Shared Responsibility in International Law.

Engagement

He represented Burundi in proceedings in front of the International Court of Justice (Kosovo Advisory Opinion, 2009-2010). He taught for several years at the University of Burundi. He has been an expert for several Latin American States in proceedings before international courts, including the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. He is a member of the board of the African Society of International Law. He was consulted by the Constitutional Assembly of Tunisia on questions of international law and auditioned in July 2012 during the preparation of the new constitution of Tunisia.

Selected publications

Books
  • International Law as a Belief System, 2017, Cambridge University Press[4][5][6]
  • Formalism in the Sources of International Law. A Theory of the Ascertainment of Legal Rules, 2011, Oxford University Press
  • Concepts for International Law: Contribution to Disciplinary Thought (Edward Elgar, 2019) (co-edited with Sahib Singh)[7]
  • Oxford Handbook on the Sources of International Law (edited with Samantha Besson), 2017, Oxford University Press[8]
  • Epistemic Forces in International Law: Essays on the Foundational Doctrines and Techniques of International Legal Argumentation, 2015, Edward Elgar Publishing[9]
  • Participants in the International Legal System: Multiple Perspectives on Non-State Actors in International Law (edited), 2011, Routledge
  • International Legal Positivism in a Post-Modern World (edited with Jörg Kammerhofer), 2014, Cambridge University Press
  • Droit international humanitaire (with J.D Hemptinne), 2012, Pedone[10]
  • L’Etat non démocratique en droit international, 2008, Pedone[11]

References
  1. "d'Aspremont, Jean". Sciences Po Law School. 20 July 2017.
  2. "Prof Jean D'Aspremont". The University of Manchester.
  3. "– Jean d'Aspremont and Iain Scobbie Archive". EJIL: Talk!.
  4. Clements, Richard (1 September 2017). "International Law as a Belief System. By Jean d'Aspremont". British Yearbook of International Law. 87: 272–275. doi:10.1093/bybil/bry010.
  5. Burchardt, Dana (31 December 2018). "Jean d'Aspremont, International Law as a Belief System". European Journal of International Law. 29 (4): 1440–1447. doi:10.1093/ejil/chy076.
  6. Habermacher, Adrien (2018). "Book Review: Jean D'Aspremont, International Law as a Belief System (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2)". Social Science Research Network. SSRN 3203021. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  7. d'Aspremont, Jean; Singh, Sahib (20 May 2018). "The Life of International Law and its Concepts". Social Science Research Network. SSRN 3181894. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  8. Morris, P. Sean (24 April 2019). "The Oxford Handbook on the Sources of International Law, edited by Samantha Besson and Jean d'Aspremont". Nordic Journal of International Law. 88 (2): 309–313. doi:10.1163/15718107-08802005.
  9. d'Aspremont, Jean (1 January 2016). "Methodology". Social Science Research Network. SSRN 2709970. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  10. Kaboré, Antoine P. (2014). "Droit international humanitaire, Jean D'Aspremont and Jérôme de Hemptinne, Published by Éditions A. Pedone, 2012". International Review of the Red Cross. 96 (893): 399–402. doi:10.1017/S1816383114000435.
  11. Pippan, Christian (1 November 2009). "Jean d'Aspremont. L'Etat Non Démocratique en Droit International. Etude Critique du Droit International Positif et de la Pratique ContemporaineNiels Petersen. Demokratie als teleologisches Prinzip. Zur Legitimität von Staatsgewalt im Völkerrecht". European Journal of International Law. 20 (4): 1276–1282. doi:10.1093/ejil/chp103.
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