Larissa van den Herik

Larissa van den Herik is a Professor of Public International Law at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies, Leiden University / Campus The Hague. She is also the Editor-in-Chief of the Leiden Journal of International Law. Her areas of expertise include corporate criminal responsibility under international law, the war crime of pillage, the international law on terrorism, and the UN Security Council’s targeted sanctions policies. She has previously worked at the Free University of Amsterdam, where she defended her PhD thesis on The Contribution of the Rwanda Tribunal to the Development of International Law (Martinus Nijhoff). In 2007, she received a three-year grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research to conduct research on illegal trade during times of armed conflict. Dr. Van den Herik is a commentator on the Dutch International Crimes Act and annotator for the International Law in Domestic Courts Project (University of Amsterdam). She is the author of several articles and annotations in the field of public international law, international criminal law and the law on peace and security, as well as co-editor of collections of essays in the field of international criminal law (Future Perspectives on International Criminal Justice, T.M.C. Asser Press – Cambridge University Press, 2009 and Fragmentation and Diversification of International Criminal Law, forthcoming).