Dr Leena Grover

Bio

Leena Grover is Associate Professor of International Law and joined Tilburg Law School in January 2019. She is a Canadian lawyer (Law Society of Ontario) and is currently completing her Habilitation in comparative constitutional law for the University of Zurich (Interim Constitutions: Legal Nature and Performance (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming)). Leena completed her doctorate in law at the University of Cologne (Interpreting Crimes in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (Cambridge University Press, 2014)) after obtaining degrees in law and international relations in Canada (LLB, University of Toronto; BA, Western University). 

Expertise

 Leena's interest in laws that promote peace extends to the following fields of research: transitional justice, comparative constitutional law, international criminal law, international human rights, public international law and the law of international peace and security. Prior to taking up her position at Tilburg, Leena combined her academic work with more than a decade of legal practice, including at the International Criminal Court (ICC), International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, UN Human Rights Committee, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, the Federal Court of Canada, an international commercial law firm and various organisations doing pro bono legal work. As legal adviser to the chief negotiators on the crime of aggression from 2007 to 2010, she assisted with drafting the definition of this crime in the Rome Statute of the ICC. Her work has been cited inter alia by the Supreme Court of Canada, ICC Appeals Chamber and UN International Law Commission.

Teaching

Leena is passionate about teaching international law at the undergraduate and graduate levels, as well as supervising graduate students (Winner, Best Overall Teacher Award 2022-2023 (English language); Winner, Best Upcoming Teacher Award 2018-2019). She welcomes doctoral thesis proposals in her areas of expertise.

Current doctoral students:

Senuri de Silva: Accountability for Atrocity Crimes in South Asia through Domestic Prosecutions

Tim Stork: Environmental Peacebuilding: Supporting Peace or Fuelling Tensions?

Courses

• International Criminal Law
• Research Design&Meth. for Postnat. Law.
• Introduction to International/EU Law

Recent publications

1. International and domestic law

   Grover, L. (2022). International and domestic law. In U. Linderfalk (Ed.), The international legal system as a system of knowledge (pp. 151-169). Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd..

2. Managerialism at the United Nations

   Grover, L. (Accepted/In press). Managerialism at the United Nations. In J. Meierhenrich, A. Laban Hinton, & L. Douglas (Eds.), Oxford handbook of transitional justice Oxford University Press.

3. Review of Emmanuel H.D. De Groof and Micha Wiebusch (eds) Internation…

   Grover, L. (2022). Review of Emmanuel H.D. De Groof and Micha Wiebusch (eds) International Law and Transitional Governance: Critical Perspectives. Manuscript submitted for publication.

4. Methods Virtual Platform (MVP) (Pilot)

   Grover, L. (2021). Methods Virtual Platform (MVP) (Pilot). Database

5. Activating the crime of aggression amendments - A look ahead

   Grover, L. (2019). Activating the crime of aggression amendments: A look ahead. In G. Werle, & A. Zimmermann (Eds.), The international criminal court in turbulent times (pp. 155-172). (International Criminal Justice Series; Vol. 2019, No. 23). T.M.C. Asser Press.