Nicolaas Schrijver is Professor of Public International Law at Leiden University, Academic Director of the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies and President of the Netherlands Society of International Law. He has taught at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague and the University of Groningen, and was Visiting Professor Europe and North-South Co-operation at Université Libre de Bruxelles.
He served as legal officer in the Office of the UN Legal Counsel and as legal adviser to the UN mission to Iraq. Prof. Schrijver has acted as legal counsel in territorial boundary disputes before the International Court of Justice and law of the sea arbitration tribunals. In 2007, he was elected member of the Institut de droit international. Prof. Schrijver is also member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration.
Prof. Schrijver has published extensively on issues of international law. His publications include: ‘Responding to International Terrorism: Moving the Frontiers of International Law for “Enduring Freedom”?’ (2001) and ‘September 11th and Challenges to International Law’ (2004). He is co-author of ‘The Future of the United Nations. Globalization with a Human Face’ (2006).