Nicolaas Jan SCHRIJVER (The Netherlands)
Date and place of birth: 21 May 1954, Warmenhuizen (N.H.), the Netherlands
Working languages: Dutch (mother tongue), English (fluent), French (fair), German (fair)
and Spanish (reading)
Education
PhD, Faculty of Law, University of Groningen, doctoral thesis: Sovereignty over Natural
Resources: Balancing Rights and Duties in an Interdependent World, xxiii and 481 pp., 2
March 1995
LL.M., Masters degree in Law (LL.M), 18 August 1978
LL.B., Faculty of Law, University of Groningen, 30 June 1974
Diploma, Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki: Postgraduate diploma, cum laude, in
International Law and Relations, August 1980
Hague Academy of International Law, 1980-1981
Current positions
Chair of Public International Law, Leiden University, and Academic Director, Grotius
Centre for International Legal Studies, Leiden University/Campus, The Hague
President of the Netherlands Society of International Law
Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, The Hague
Member of the five-member high-level United Nations Task Force on the Right to
Development
Associate member of the Institut de droit international (elected in 2007)
Member of the Board of the Netherlands Institute for Human Rights
Other professional activities
Appeared as legal counsel before the International Court of Justice, the International
Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, ad hoc law of the sea tribunals and as expert in
International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) proceedings
Working experience in the United Nations system, including legal officer, Office of the
Legal Counsel, United Nations
Chairperson of the Committee on the International Law of Sustainable Development of the
International Law Association (ILA) (during 1994-2002, its General Rapporteur) and
Co-Chair (with Dr. Kamal Hossain, Bangladesh) of the ILA Study Group on United
