Jean Marie Gobert Count d'Aspremont Lynden (Brussels, January 17, 1978) is a lawyer and professor of international legal theory at Sciences Po in Paris, at the University of Manchester and at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva.[1][2][3]

Life

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D'Aspremont holds a law degree from University College London, an LL.M. from Cambridge University and a Ph.D. from the Université catholique de Louvain. He holds a chair of public international law at the University of Manchester, where he co-founded the Manchester International Law Centre with Iain Scobbie.[4] Before joining Sciences Po in 2018, he was a professor of international legal theory at the University of Amsterdam, which he joined in 2009.[5][6] He is also a member of the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities.[7]

He is General Editor of the Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law and Director of Oxford International Organizations.[8]

In 2017, he was awarded the James Crawford Prize for the article "The International Court of Justice and the Irony of System-Design" in the Journal of International Dispute Settlement.[9]

Selected publications

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  • L'état non démocratique en droit international. Etude critique du droit international positif et de la pratique contemporaine. Paris, 2008.
  • Formalism and the sources of international law. A theory of the ascertainment of legal rules. Oxford, 2011.
  • Epistemic forces in international law. Foundational doctrines and techniques of international legal argumentation. Cheltenham / Northampton, 2015.
  • Non-State Actors and the Formation of International Customary Law: Unlearning Some Common Tropes. Manchester, 2017.
  • International law as a belief system. Cambridge / New York, 2018.

References

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  1. ^ "d'Aspremont, Jean | Sciences Po Law School". www.sciencespo.fr. 2017-07-20. Retrieved 2023-09-04.
  2. ^ "Jean D'Aspremont | IHEID". www.graduateinstitute.ch. Retrieved 2023-09-04.
  3. ^ "Jean D'Aspremont". Research Explorer The University of Manchester. Retrieved 2023-09-04.
  4. ^ "Jean d'Aspremont". Institute for International Law and Justice. Retrieved 2023-09-04.
  5. ^ Amsterdam, Universiteit van (2013-10-30). "Jean d'Aspremont, professor of International Legal Theory". University of Amsterdam. Retrieved 2023-09-04.
  6. ^ "Nine researchers and professors | Sciences Po Research". www.sciencespo.fr. 2017-10-11. Retrieved 2023-09-04.
  7. ^ Amsterdam, Universiteit van (2013-10-30). "Jean d'Aspremont, professor of International Legal Theory". University of Amsterdam. Retrieved 2023-09-04.
  8. ^ "d'Aspremont, Jean | Sciences Po Law School". www.sciencespo.fr. 2017-07-20. Retrieved 2023-09-04.
  9. ^ "James Crawford Prize". Research Explorer The University of Manchester. Retrieved 2023-09-04.