Larissa van den Herik
About/Bio
Larissa van den Herik is Professor of Public International Law at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies at Leiden University. She is a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, Dutch National Group. She is also part-time judge at the district court of The Hague (international crimes unit). And she is General Editor of the Cambridge Studies of International and Comparative Law.
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A Tiny Bit of Progress in the Midst of Major Impasse – Revamping the UN Security Council’s Focal Point Mechanism for Sanctions
While the international legal order as we know it seems to be tilting to a more anarchic mode, incremental changes to the UN system of collective security and specifically the UN Security Council are still materializing. In the year that Russia started the war against Ukraine, which resulted in the Council’s paralysis on many fronts, a landmark Resolution…
International Commissions of Inquiry as a Template for a MH17 Tribunal ? A Reply to Jan Lemnitzer
February 9, 2017
Larissa van den Herik
In his essay on ‘International Commissions of Inquiry and the North Sea incident: a model for a MH17 tribunal?’ Jan Lemnitzer makes the argument that the origins of commissions of inquiry (COIs) dealing with international criminal law are deep-rooted, dating back well before the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907. Presenting the Doggerbank inquiry as a de…
Book Discussion: Testing ICL’s Expressive Capacity
March 15, 2016
Larissa van den Herik
Evelyne Schmid’s Taking Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Seriously in International Criminal Law offers an engaging, meticulous, systematic, and comprehensive treatment of an underexplored terrain. With its revealing accounts of the socio-economic dimensions of ongoing and past conflict situations and its incisive explorations of how international criminal law (ICL) can address those, the book is responsive to…
Popular articles by Larissa van den Herik
A Tiny Bit of Progress in the Midst of Major Impasse – Revamping the UN Security Council’s Focal Point Mechanism for Sanctions
While the international legal order as we know it seems to be tilting to a more anarchic mode, incremental changes to the UN system of collective security and specifically the UN Security Council are still materializing. In the year that Russia started the war against Ukraine, which resulted in the Council’s paralysis on many fronts, a landmark Resolution…
Book Discussion: Testing ICL’s Expressive Capacity
March 15, 2016
Larissa van den Herik
Evelyne Schmid’s Taking Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Seriously in International Criminal Law offers an engaging, meticulous, systematic, and comprehensive treatment of an underexplored terrain. With its revealing accounts of the socio-economic dimensions of ongoing and past conflict situations and its incisive explorations of how international criminal law (ICL) can address those, the book is responsive to…
International Commissions of Inquiry as a Template for a MH17 Tribunal ? A Reply to Jan Lemnitzer
February 9, 2017
Larissa van den Herik
In his essay on ‘International Commissions of Inquiry and the North Sea incident: a model for a MH17 tribunal?’ Jan Lemnitzer makes the argument that the origins of commissions of inquiry (COIs) dealing with international criminal law are deep-rooted, dating back well before the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907. Presenting the Doggerbank inquiry as a de…