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prof. dr. Nikolas Rajkovic
Full Professor
TLS: Tilburg Law School
TLS: Public Law and Governance
Bio
Nikolas M. Rajkovic is Professor and Chair of International Law at Tilburg University (The Netherlands), and is Head of Section for International Law, Legal History, European Law, Environmental Law (ILEE). He is an Adjunct Professor in International Law and International Relations at Kyung Hee University (South Korea), and also an Adjunct in Transnational Law at the Université de Sherbrooke (Canada). He came to the Netherlands from the University of Kent (UK), where in 2015 he was awarded the Faculty of Social Sciences Prize for Early Career Research. Nikolas is senior faculty, and an Academic Council member, at the Harvard Law School’s Institute for Global Law and Policy (IGLP). In 2012-2013, he was awarded the Jean Monnet Fellowship in Global Governance by the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (Florence). He completed his Ph.D. at the European University Institute (2009) in the area of International Criminal Tribunals and the challenge of domestic compliance.
Expertise
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.
Teaching
In 2017, he was nominated by the undergraduate and graduate students of Tilburg Law School for awards in three categories: “best teacher overall”; “best teacher-understanding society”; and “teacher with best substantive lectures.”
Subjects
- Research Design and Methods for Global Lawyers
- Public International Law: Continuity and Transformation
- International Law
- GLB: Public International Law
Recent publications
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What is a "grave" international crime? - The Rome Statute, Durkheim a…
Rajkovic, N. (Accepted/In press). What is a "grave" international crime? The Rome Statute, Durkheim and the sociology of ruling outrages. Loyola University Chicago International Law Review. -
Interdisciplinarity
Rajkovic, N. (2019). Interdisciplinarity. In J. D'Aspremont, & S. Singh (Eds.), Concepts for international law: Contributions to disciplinary thought (pp. 490-504). Edward Elgar. -
International law and the ides of March - A response to David Kennedy
Rajkovic, N. (2018). International law and the ides of March: A response to David Kennedy. Tilburg Law Review: Journal on international and comparative law, 23(1-2), 121-124. -
The visual conquest of international law - Brute boundaries, the map …
Rajkovic, N. (2018). The visual conquest of international law: Brute boundaries, the map and the legacy of cartogenesis. Leiden Journal of International Law, 31(2), 267-288. -
The space between us - International law, teleology and the new orien…
Rajkovic, N. (2017). The space between us: International law, teleology and the new orientalism of counterdisciplinarity. In The law of international lawyers: Reading Martti Koskenniemi (pp. 167). Cambridge University Press.