Biography
Otto Spijkers is Assistant Professor in the field of Constitutional and Administrative Law at Erasmus School of Law. He is also a Lecturer of International and European Law at Leiden University College, Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs of Leiden University. Before joining the Erasmus School of Law and Leiden University College, Otto was professor of international law at Wuhan University’s China Institute of Boundary and Ocean Studies as well as its Research Institute of Environmental Law. Prior to joining Wuhan University, he worked at the Utrecht Centre for Water, Oceans and Sustainability Law and Netherlands Institute for the Law of the Sea of Utrecht University, Netherlands. He wrote his doctoral dissertation, entitled The United Nations, the Evolution of Global Values and International Law, at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies of Leiden University.
Erasmus School of Law
- spijkers@law.eur.nl
- Room
- L6-013
- Location
- Burg. Oudlaan 50, Rotterdam
More information
Work
- Ke Tang & Otto Spijkers (2022) - The Human Right to a Clean, Healthy and Sustainable Environment - doi: 10.1163/24686042-12340078 - [link]
- Otto Spijkers (2021) - Friends of the Earth Netherlands (Milieudefensie) v Royal Dutch Shell - doi: 10.1163/24686042-12340073 - [link]
- Otto Spijkers (2022) - The Influence of Climate Litigation on Managing Climate Change Risks: The Pioneering Work of the Netherlands Courts - doi: 10.36633/ulr.801 - [link]
- Otto Spijkers (2021) - World Law’s Modern Master Builders - doi: 10.1163/9789004459892_019 - [link]
- Otto Spijkers & Dimitri Van Den Meerssche (2021) - ‘There Was an Idealism that This Information is Useful’—The Origins and Evolution of the Netherlands Yearbook of International Law - doi: 10.1007/978-94-6265-403-7_20 - [link]
- Otto Spijkers (26 September 2022) - Fictional law suit on Terschelling: water manager in court for for poor water quality
- Otto Spijkers (23 September 2022) - Climate governance linked to rights
- Otto Spijkers (23 September 2022) - Climate governance linked to rights
- Otto Spijkers (9 June 2022) - Asian Perspectives on Human Rights Series: "Water as a Human Right: Critical Asian Perspective on its Present and Future Dimensions" [9 Jun 2022]
- Otto Spijkers (20 October 2021) - Simulated transboundary negotiation for better understanding
- Otto Spijkers (14 July 2021) - GLOBALink | China's promise on carbon neutrality generous, ambitious: expert
- Otto Spijkers (5 March 2021) - Virtual seminar focuses on human rights cooperation under Belt & Road
- Otto Spijkers (11 July 2020) - 25 years later: Questions of legal responsibility for Srebrenica
- Rob van Tulder & Otto Spijkers (25 June 2020) - Bashar Malkawi, Acuns am20-seminars-with-links
- Otto Spijkers (4 December 2019) - The 1995 Srebrenica Genocide: A Failure to Prevent of the United Nations and the Netherlands?
Leiden University College
- Start date approval
- September 2023
- End date approval
- September 2026
- Place
- 'S-GRAVENHAGE
- Description
- Lecturer of international and EU law
Introduction to Public Law
- Year Level
- bachelor 1, bachelor 1
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- RR112
Legal Academic Skills III
- Level
- bachelor 3
- Year Level
- bachelor 3
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- RR317
Thesis Master Constitutional and Adminis
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- RS113
Introduction to Public Law
- Year Level
- bachelor 1, bachelor 1
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- RD112
Legal Academic Skills III
- Level
- bachelor 3
- Year Level
- bachelor 3
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- RD317
Introduction to Public Law
- Level
- bachelor 1
- Year Level
- bachelor 1
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- RC114
Research Lab Public Law
- Level
- master
- Year Level
- master
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- RB60
Lecturer of International and European Law, Leiden University College, Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs of Leiden University
- Start date approval
- January 2023