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As of March 2012, Professor William Schabas has been appointed as a new part-time Chair in International Criminal Law and Human Rights at the Leiden Law School. The new Chair is embedded in the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies and focused on the interaction between international criminal law, human rights and general international law, in line with the research profile area of the Leiden Law School (‘Interaction between Legal Systems’). The Chair will complement the research and educational strengths of Leiden in these fields.

 

As author of more than twenty books and some 300 articles, Professor Schabas is one of the leading academics on the international and domestic dimensions of criminal law and human rights. He will teach in Leiden LL.M. programmes and supervise PhD candidates under the Grotius PhD Track. The Appointment Committee concluded that Professor Schabas is ‘exceptionally well qualified’ to assume the position. Professor Schabas said: ‘I am delighted about the chance to work with wonderful colleagues at Leiden, and to be associated with an academic institution that is so close to the international justice institutions in The Hague’.