Cecily Rose
Associate professor
- Name
- Dr. C.E. Rose
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- +31 71 527 5385
- c.e.rose@law.leidenuniv.nl
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- 0000-0003-3307-8122
Cecily Rose is an associate professor of public international law in the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies. She joined the faculty as an assistant professor in September 2013.
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Cecily Rose is engaged in research, teaching, and consultancy work in the field of public international law. Cecily has a broad background in public international law, and general interests and expertise in the field. She is currently pursuing research interests in the areas of transnational criminal law and international dispute settlement. Her research in the area of transnational criminal law concerns, in particular, international legal approaches to corruption, asset recovery, organized crime, and money laundering.
Cecily’s scholarship has been published in leading international law journals (American Journal of International Law, European Journal of International Law, International & Comparative Law Quarterly) and as a monograph with Oxford University Press (International Anti-Corruption Norms, 2015). Cecily also co-edited and contributed to a treaty commentary on the UN Convention against Corruption, which was published in 2019 as a part of OUP’s authoritative treaty commentary series. She is the lead author of An Introduction to Public International Law (CUP 2022), a textbook that she co-authored with other members of the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies.
Cecily has taught various courses in the field of public international law at both Leiden Law School and Leiden University College. She currently teaches courses at Leiden Law School on International Dispute Settlement (LL.M. programme) and Public International Law (LL.B. programme).
In recent years Cecily has worked as a consultant for the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), the World Bank, and the UN Office on Drugs and Crime. Her work for the OHCHR concerned the Recommended Principles on Human Rights and Asset Recovery. Cecily has served as an editor of the Leiden Journal of International Law, in its International Law and Practice section, since 2013. As of 2022, she is also a founding board member of the Transnational Criminal Law Review. Cecily is a member of the European Society of International Law and a co-convenor of the Interest Group on International Courts and Tribunals.
Cecily holds a Ph.D. and an LL.M. in public international law from the University of Cambridge, a J.D. from Columbia Law School, and a B.A. (English) from Yale University. Prior to joining the Grotius Centre, Cecily Rose worked as an associate legal officer at the International Court of Justice in The Hague. Cecily also previously worked as an associate legal officer at the Special Court for Sierra Leone in Freetown, Sierra Leone and in private practice, as an associate in the International Regulation and Compliance group of Steptoe & Johnson, LLP, in Washington, D.C. As a member of the New York and Washington, D.C. bars, Cecily remains a qualified lawyer.
Associate professor
- Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
- Instituut voor Publiekrecht
- Grotius Centre for Intern Legal Studies
- Peat D.C. & Rose C.E. (2024), The changing landscape of international law scholarship: do funding bodies influence what we research?, Yale Journal of International Law 49: 125-153.
- Borlini L. & Rose C.E. (2024), The normative development of laws on asset preservation and confiscation: an examination of emerging best practices, International Journal of Constitutional Law 22(2): 514-537.
- Rose C.E. (2024), Magnitsky sanctions, corruption, and asset recovery. In: Rotberg R.I. & Hampson F.O. (Eds.), Grand corruption: curbing kleptocracy globally. Routledge Studies in Security and Conflict Management. London: Routledge. 224-243.
- Rose C.E. (2024), The progressive development of international law on the return of stolen assets: mapping the paths forward, European journal of international law 35(3): 701-726.
- Rose C.E. 21 October 2024, Tackling the Overflowing Caseload at the International Court of Justice. The Auxiliary Chamber [podcast].
- Becker M.A. & Rose C.E. (3 December 2024), The Return of Not-Quite “Phantom Experts”?: The ICJ Meets with IPCC Scientists. Verfassungsblog. [blog entry].
- Rose C.E. (2023), Introduction to Symposium: Public Interest Litigation at the International Court of Justice, Law and Practice of International Courts and Tribunals 22(2): 229-233.
- Rose C.E. (2023), Review of: Staiano F. (2022), Transnational organized crime: challenging international law principles on state jurisdiction. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. European journal of international law 34(3): 748-754.
- Rose C.E. (2023), Introduction to Symposium on the Proposal to Create an International Anti-Corruption Court, Transnational Criminal Law Review 2(1): 1-4.
- Helfer L.R., Rose C.E. & Brewster R. (2023), Flexible institution building in the international anti-corruption regime: proposing a transnational asset recovery mechanism, American Journal of International Law 117(4): 559-600.
- Rose C.E. (2023), Definitions and concept. In: Pieth M. & Søreide T. (Eds.), Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Corruption Law. Elgar Concise Encyclopedias in Law. Northampton, Massachusetts, USA: Edward Elgar Publishing. 178-180.
- Rose C.E. (2023), Soft law initiatives. In: Pieth M. & Søreide T. (Eds.), Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Corruption Law. Elgar Concise Encyclopedias in Law. Northampton, Massachusetts, USA: Edward Elgar Publishing. 394-397.
- Peat D.C. & Rose C.E. (2022), International law from the outside: insights from the Dutch Research Council (NWO), Leiden Journal of International Law 35(1): 1-8.
- Rose C.E., Blokker N.M., Dam-de Jong D.A., Driest S. van den, Heinsch R.W., Koppe E. & Schrijver N.J. (2022), An introduction to public international law. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Rose C.E. (17 March 2022), International Court of Justice orders Russia to immediately suspend military operations in Ukraine. Leiden Law Blog. [blog entry].
- Rose C.E. (2022), Enforcing the ‘community interest’ in combating transnational crimes: the potential for public interest litigation, Netherlands International Law Review 69(1): 57-82.
- Rose C.E. (18 October 2022), Equatorial Guinea v. France (No. 2): a first attempt at international litigation on stolen asset recovery. EJIL:Talk!. [blog entry].
- Rose C.E. (19 October 2022), What to expect in upcoming provisional measures proceedings in Equatorial Guinea v France (No. 2). CIL Dialogues: Centre for International Law, National University of Singapore. [blog entry].
- Rose C.E. (2021), Corruption and Global Security. In: Geiß R. & Melzer N. (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the International Law of Global Security. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 140-157.
- Rose C.E., annotation: International Court of Justice 14 July 2020. AJIL 115(2): 301-308 (Appeal Relating to the Jurisdiction of the ICAO Council under Article 84 of the Convention on International Civil Aviation (Bahrain, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates v. Qatar); Appeal Relating to the Jurisdiction of the ICAO Council under Article II, Section 2, of the 1944 International Air Services Transit Agreement (Bahrain, Egypt and United Arab Emirates v. Qatar)).
- Rose C.E. (2021), The Origins of International Anti-Corruption Law: The Failed Negotiation of an International Agreement on Illicit Payments. In: Boister N., Gless S. & Jessberger F. (Eds.), Histories of Transnational Criminal Law. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 187-201.
- Rose C.E. (2021), Human Rights Law and the Return of Stolen Assets. In: Blokker N., Dam-de Jong D. & Prislan V. (Eds.), Furthering the Frontiers of International Law: Sovereignty, Human Rights, Sustainable Development: Liber Amicorum Nico Schrijver. Leiden: Brill Nijhoff. 294-306.
- Rose C.E. (2021), Corruption. In: Binder C., Nowak M., Hofbauer J.A. & Janig P. (Eds.), Elgar Encyclopedia of Human Rights. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. 377-383.
- Rose C.E. (2021), The Role of the Judge Ad Hoc in Interstate Litigation: Perspectives from the Law and Practice of the International Court of Justice. In: De Brabandere E. (Ed.), International Procedure in Interstate Litigation and Arbitration: A Comparative Approach. Studies on International Courts and Tribunals. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 113-138.
- Rose C.E. (2021), An International Economic Law Perspective on the United Nations Convention against Corruption, European Yearbook of International Economic Law 11: 83-106.
- Rose C.E. (2020), The Creation of a Review Mechanism for the UN Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime and Its Protocols, American Journal of International Law 114(1): 51-67.
- Rose C.E. (2020), The Dispute Settlement Function of the International Court of Justice in Croatia v. Serbia. In: Ruiz Fabri H., Nunes Chaib A., Venzke I. & Von Bogdandy A. (Eds.), International Judicial Legitimacy: New Voices and Approaches. Studies of the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law no. 20. Baden Baden: Nomos. 129-146.
- Rose C.E. (2019), Money Laundering and the African Court of Justice and Human and Peoples’ Rights. In: Jalloh C.C., Clarke K.M. & Nmehielle V.O. (Eds.), The African Court of Justice and Human and Peoples' Rights in Context: Development and Challenges. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 505-528.
- Rose C.E., Kubiciel M. & Landwehr O. (Eds.) (2019), The United Nations Convention Against Corruption: A Commentary. Oxford Commentaries on International Law. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Rose C.E., Kubiciel M. & Landwehr O. (2019), Introduction. In: Rose C.E., Kubiciel M. & Landwehr O. (Eds.), The United Nations Convention against Corruption: A Commentary. Oxford Commentaries on International Law. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1-13.
- Rose C.E. (2019), Article 17: Embezzlement, Misappropriation, or Other Diversion of Property by a Public Official. In: Rose C.E., Kubiciel M. & Landwehr O. (Eds.), The United Nations Convention against Corruption: A Commentary. Oxford Commentaries on International Law. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 182-191.
- Rose C.E. (2019), Article 19: Abuse of Functions. In: Rose C.E., Kubiciel M. & Landwehr O. (Eds.), The United Nations Convention against Corruption: A Commentary. Oxford Commentaries on International Law. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 210-218.
- Rose C.E. (2019), Article 29: Statute of Limitations. In: Rose C.E., Kubiciel M. & Landwehr O. (Eds.), The United Nations Convention against Corruption: A Commentary. Oxford Commentaries on International Law. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 294-300.
- Rose C.E. (2019), Article 1: Statement of Purpose. In: Rose C.E., Kubiciel M. & Landwehr O. (Eds.), The United Nations Convention against Corruption: A Commentary. Oxford Commentaries on International Law. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 17-20.
- Rose C.E. (2018), Treaty Monitoring and Compliance in the Field of Transnational Criminal Law, Brill Research Perspectives in Transnational Crime 1(2-3): 40-64.
- Rose C.E. (2017), Non-Binding Instruments and Democratic Accountability. In: Cullen H., Harrington J. & Renshaw C. (Eds.), Experts, Networks and International Law. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 205-229.
- Becker M.A. & Rose C.E. (2017), Investigating the Value of Site Visits in Inter-State Arbitration and Adjudication, Journal of International Dispute Settlement 8(2): 219-249.
- Rose C.E. (2017), An Emerging Norm: The Duty of States to Provide Reparations for Human Rights Violations by Non-State Actors. In: MacEvoy K. & Mallinder L. (Eds.), Transitional Justice. III: Forms and impact of transitional justice. London & New York: Routledge. 278-306.
- Rose C.E. (2016), Justifying Arguments About Selection Procedures for Judges at International Courts and Tribunals: A Response to Nienke Grossman, AJIL Unbound 110: 86-91.
- Rose C.E. (2016), The Limitations of a Human Rights Approach to Corruption, International & Comparative Law Quarterly 65(2): 405-438.
- Rose C.E. (2016), Fraudulent Evidence at the International Court of Justice, Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting 110: 329-332.
- Rose C.E. (2015), International Lawyers as Public Intellectuals and the Need for More Books, Leiden Journal of International Law 28: 393-401.
- Rose C.E. (2015), International Anti-Corruption Norms: Their Creation and Influence on Domestic Legal Systems. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Rose C.E. (2015) Corporate Obligations under International Law. Review of: Karavias M. (2013), Corporate Obligations under International Law. Oxford: Oxford University Press. British Yearbook of International Law 85(1): 178-181.
- Rose C.E. (2015), The FIFA Corruption Scandal from the Perspective of Public International Law, American Society of International Law Insight 19(23): .
- Kumar S. & Rose C.E. (2014), A Study of Lawyers Appearing before the International Court of Justice, 1999-2012, European journal of international law 25(3): 893-917.
- Rose C.E. (2014), Corruption and Conflicts of Interests in the United Kingdom. In: Auby J. Breen E. Perroud T. (Ed.), Corruption and Conflicts of Interest: Comparative Law Insights: Edward Elgar. 150-166.
- Rose C.E., annotation: Questions Relating to the Seizure and Detention of Certain Documents and Data (Timor-Leste v. Australia) Provisional Measures (Order of 3 March 2014) 3 March 2014. CLJ 74: 231-234.
- Rose C.E., annotation: Metal-Tech v. The Republic of Uzbekistan, ICSID Case No. ARB/10/3, Award, 4 October 2013 4 October 2013, no. Case No. ARB/10/3. JWIT 15: 747-756.
- Rose C.E. (2014), Questioning the Role of International Arbitration in the Fight Against Corruption, Journal of International Arbitration 31(2): 183-264.
- Rose C.E. (2014) Corruption: A Violation of Human Rights and a Crime under International Law?. Review of: Boersma M. (2012), Corruption: A Violation of Human Rights and a Crime under International Law?: Intersentia. Netherlands International Law Review 61: 445.
- Rose C.E. (2012), The Corner House Case and the Incomplete Incorporation of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention in the Kingdom, Tulane Journal of International and Comparative Law 20: 351-383.
- Rose C.E. (2012), The UK Bribery Act 2010 and Accompanying Guidance: Belated Implementation of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention, International & Comparative Law Quarterly 61: 485.
- Rose C.E. (2012) The Nuremberg Military Tribunals and the Origins of International Criminal Law. Review of: Heller J.K. (2011), The Nuremberg Military Tribunals and the Origins of International Criminal Law: Oxford University Press. British Yearbook of International Law 82: 528-530.
- Rose C.E. (2011), The Application of Human Rights Law to Private Sector Complicity in Governmental Corruption, 24 Leiden Journal of International Law, Leiden Journal of International Law 24: 715.
- Rose C.E. (2010), An Emerging Norm: The Duty of States to Provide Reparations for Human Rights Violations by Non-State Actors, Hastings International & Comparative Law Review 33: 307-343.
- Rose C.E. (2009), Troubled Indictments at the Special Court for Sierra Leone: The Pleading of Joint Criminal Enterprise and Sex-Based Crimes, Journal of International Criminal Justice 7: 353-372.
- Rose C.E. (2008), Questioning the Silence of the Bench: Reflections on Oral Proceedings at the International Court of Justice, Journal of Transnational Law and Policy 18: 47-64.
- Rose C.E. (2008), Looking Beyond Amnesty and Traditional Justice and Reconciliation Mechanisms in Northern Uganda: A Proposal for Truth-Telling and Reparations, Boston College Third World Law Journal 28: 345-400.
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