Biography
My professorial chair at the International Institute of Social Studies in The Hague (part of Erasmus University Rotterdam) covers the field of International Law and Development. I see and study law as a major factor in processes of development and/or transition, either as an instrument of change or as a vehicle for guarding the status quo. In recent decades, various developments have brought about a situation where national legal orders and processes for tackling development, equity and human rights issues have been exposed increasingly to the sphere, if not the rule, of international law. These developments included a relatively widespread intensification of international cooperation (e.g. through international organizations such as the United Nations or through regional organizations such as the European Union, the African Union or the Organization of American States); economic and social globalization; and growing (and renewed) ideas about interdependence and common responsibility for overcoming major global challenges, such as climate change or pandemics, as well as massive and/or flagrant violations of human rights. Currently, the international legal order is seriously challenged e.g. by biased implementation (e.g. relating to Palestine and Ukraine) and nationalist tendencies.
My work focuses on the following, interrelated and mutually reinforcing academic fields:
* the role of international law as an instrument of change and/or constraint for realizing, world-wide, equitable development, human rights and climate justice;
* the role of global and regional international organizations for realizing the right to development;
* the contents and implications of (human) rights-based approaches to development;
* the role of global human rights instruments in supporting the institutionalization of specific national action for realizing development, equity and human rights in practice, with special emphasis on the track record of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
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Work
- Karin Arts (2024) - Participation in Multilateral Treaties - doi: 10.1163/9789004718128_010 - [link]
- Karin Arts (2024) - Den Kinderrechten auf der Spur - Die Sternsinger - Kindermissionswerk, 2024 (August), 16-19 - [link]
- Karin Arts (2023) - Plan International - doi: 10.4337/9781800372122.ch98
- Karin Arts (2023) - Save the Children - doi: 10.4337/9781800372122.ch112
- Karin Arts (2023) - Participation in Multilateral Treaties
- Karin Arts (2022) - Participation in Multilateral Treaties - doi: 10.1163/9789004530973_004
- Karin Arts (2022) - A Decade of Monitoring Children's Rights: The KidsRights Index at 10 - DevISSues, 24 (2) - [link]
- Karin Arts & Daphina Misiedjan (2022) - Governance for Sustainable Development: A Human Rights Perspective - [link]
- Karin Arts (2021) - Participation in Multilateral Treaties - doi: 10.1163/9789004501249_009 - [link]
- Jeff Handmaker & Karin Arts (2021) - Nederland moet zich uitspreken tegen Israëls aanval op Palestijnse organisaties - [link]
- Karin Arts (2021) - General Comment No. 19: De Overheidsbegroting en de Rechten van het Kind - Tijdschrift voor Jeugdrecht, 3 (2), 50-55 - doi: 10.5553/tvjr/259035002021003002013
- Karin Arts (2020) - Development Policy and European Union Politics - doi: 10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.013.1132 - [link]
- Karin Arts (2020) - Participation in Multilateral Treaties - doi: 10.1163/9789004437784_011 - [link]
- Karin Arts (2019) - Children’s Rights and Climate Change - doi: 10.1017/9781108140348 - [link]
- Karin Arts (2019) - Children’s Rights and the Sustainable Development Goals - doi: 10.1007/978-981-10-4184-6_18 - [link]
- Hans Opschoor, Karin Arts, J Gupta, MM Jansen, CMAW Van Paridon & LGJ Wijnands (2019) - International Climate Policy - [link]
- Jeff Handmaker & Karin Arts (2019) - Mobilising International Law as an Instrument of Global Justice: Introduction - doi: 10.1017/9781108586665.001 - [link]
- Jeff Handmaker & Karin Arts (2019) - Mobilising International Law for 'Global Justice' - doi: 10.1017/9781108586665 - [link]
- Karin Arts (2019) - Participation in Multilateral treaties - doi: 10.1163/9789004415829_011 - [link]
- Jeff Handmaker & Karin Arts (2024) - Gaza at the ICJ (Organiser)
Activiteit: Organising and contributing to an event › Academic - Karin Arts (2016) - E-module: The Right to Development and Children (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation › Academic - Karin Arts (2014) - Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights (Journal) (Editor)
Activiteit: Editorial work › Academic - Karin Arts (2014) - Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights (Journal) (Editor)
Activiteit: Publication Peer-review › Academic
Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights
- Start date approval
- november 2022
- End date approval
- november 2025
- Place
- UTRECHT UNIVERSITY
- Description
- Executive Editor
UNICEF Nederland
- Start date approval
- november 2022
- End date approval
- november 2025
- Place
- DEN HAAG
- Description
- Vice-Chair Supervisory Board
Universiteit Leiden
- Start date approval
- november 2022
- End date approval
- november 2025
- Place
- LEIDEN
- Description
- Lid Jury Kinderrechten Scriptieprijs
5401 Research Paper
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- ISS-5401-24-25
Board of Examiners
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- ISS-BOE-24-25
Major SJP
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- ISS-SJP-24-25
General Information
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- ISSGENERAL-24-25
3105 Research Paper Preparation
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- ISS-3105-24-25