Niels Blokker has been a staff member of the Grotius Centre since the beginning, as Professor of International Institutional Law (holding the Schermers Chair, partly financed by the Prof. mr. H.G. Schermers Fund).

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Niels Blokker has been a staff member of the Grotius Centre since the beginning, as Professor of International Institutional Law (Schermers Chair).

Curriculum vitae 

Niels Blokker was appointed as Professor of International Institutional Law to the 'Schermers Chair' in 2003 (0.2 funded by the Prof.mr. H.G. Schermers Fonds). Since August 2013 he has a full-time appointment (of which 0.2 FTE are funded by the Prof.mr. H.G. Schermers Fonds).

He graduated from Leiden University (1984), where he also defended his PhD thesis (1989). From 1984 he was a lecturer, subsequently a senior lecturer in the law of international organizations at Leiden University. In 2000 he was appointed senior legal counsel at the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 2007 he became Deputy Legal Adviser at this Ministry.  In August 2013 he left the Foreign Ministry and started working full-time at Leiden University.

His publications include International Regulation of World Trade in Textiles (dissertation, 1989), International Institutional Law (co-authored with the late Henry G. Schermers, 6^th edition 2018), Proliferation of International Organizations (co-authored with the late Henry G. Schermers, 2000), The Security Council and the Use of Force (co-edited with Nico Schrijver, 2005), Saving Future Generations from the Scourge of War - the UN Security Council at 75 (2021). He is co-founder and co-editor-in-chief of the journal International Organizations Law Review. His main current research project is about the governance of international courts and tribunals.

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