Full Professor
TLS: Tilburg Law School
TLS: Public Law and Governance
Nikolas M. Rajkovic is Professor and Chair of International Law at Tilburg University (The Netherlands), and is the former Head of the Department of Public Law and Governance (PLG). He is currently a Visiting Fellow at the Law Department of the European University Institute (Italy). Nikolas is senior faculty, and an Academic Council, member of the Harvard Law School's Institute for Global Law and Policy (IGLP). His current research is at the intersection of International Law, International Relations, and Critical Geography. He is writing a new book forthcoming with Cambridge University Press in 2025: A Critical Geography of International Law: Theorizing Spaces of Global Authority. Previously, Nikolas has been an Adjunct Professor in International Law and International Relations at Kyung Hee University (South Korea), and Adjunct in Transnational Law at the Université de Sherbrooke (Canada).
Nikolas' research and teaching spans Public International Law, International Legal Theory, International Relations Theory, International Criminal Law, the Law of Armed Conflict and Transnational Law. His work has been published by leading journals and publishers across both disciplinary International Law and International Relations: notably Cambridge University Press, the European Journal of International Relations, and the Leiden Journal of International Law. His output has been cited in publications across 6 disciplinary fields: Administrative Sciences, Geography, International Law; International Relations; Political Science; and Tax Law. Nikolas' current research examines the under-analyzed influence of geographic theories and cartography for how international lawyers visualize boundary practices and international authority.
In 2023, Nikolas was awarded a "Best Teacher Award" by the undergraduate and graduate students of Tilburg Law School. In 2019, Nikolas was awarded "Most Inspiring Lecturer". 2017, he was nominated for awards in three categories: “best teacher overall”; “best teacher-understanding society”; and “teacher with best substantive lectures.”