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1 Contributors Serge Brammertz is the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). In Belgium, he has served as Deputy to the Prosecutor-General at the Liège Court of Appeal, was in charge of coordinating investigations in the fields of international drug trafficking and trafficking of human beings as a national magistrate, and was later the Belgian federal chief prosecutor. He was Deputy Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, in charge of the Investigations Division of the Office of the Prosecutor when the investigations of crimes committed in Uganda, the DRC and Darfur were initiated. In he headed the investigation by the UN International Independent Investigation Commission into the murder of the former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. He holds a law degree from the Université catholique de Louvain, a degree in criminology from the University of Liège and a PhD in international law from the Albert Ludwig University in Freiburg, Germany. He is currently also visiting professor at Strathmore law school, Nairobi, teaching international criminal law Antônio Augusto Cançado Trindade has been a Judge at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) since He holds an LLM and PhD in International Law from the University of Cambridge. He is a Full Professor of Public International Law at the University of Brasilia and was a lecturer at the Hague Academy of International Law. He received honorary degrees at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, the Central University of Chile, the Catholic University of Peru, the American University of Paraguay and the National University of La Plata. He is a former President of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and Executive Director of the Inter-American Institute of Human Rights. Since 2004, he has been a Member of the Curatorium of the Hague Academy of International Law. Kenneth Chan joined the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies in December 2010 as PhD candidate in the research programme Global Governance and Democratic Government. His research focuses on the global peace and security governance track of the programme. He has a background in law, receiving an LLB (Hons.) from the University of vii

2 viii International and supranational courts and the rule of law Auckland, New Zealand (2009) and read for his LLM (adv) in Public International Law at the University of Leiden (2010). He has interned at the ICTY on the Stanišić trial and the Coalition for the ICC, acting as an independent legal observer for the Lubanga and Katanga/Ngudjolo trials. His main interest is international criminal law. Anna-Luise Chané joined the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies in August 2013 as a research fellow and PhD candidate on the FP7 research project Fostering Human Rights Among European Policies (FRAME). She studied law at the University of Cologne and KU Leuven and passed her First and Second Juridical State Examination with distinction. She holds a Master of Laws degree from Harvard Law School, where she was an ERP Scholar of the German Ministry of Economy and Technology and the German National Academic Foundation. Anna-Luise completed internships with the Association of German Chambers of Commerce and Industry in Brussels and the Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Development. In addition she was a research assistant at the Chair for Public International Law, European Law, European and International Economic Law at the University of Cologne. As a law clerk, she worked for Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP and served among others in the Consulate General in Los Angeles and in the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development. Barbara Concolino studied law at the University of Roma Tre where she graduated summa cum laude. She then continued her studies with a doctorate in International and EU Law (University of Teramo). During her doctoral studies, she also worked as a University Assistant at the Universities of Roma Tre and LUISS Guido Carli and as a Trainee Lawyer for the Avvocatura Generale dello Stato (State Legal Counsel). From 2008 to 2013, she worked as a Legal Adviser at the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal. She is currently working as a Senior Associate in the International Arbitration Department of Bonelli Erede Pappalardo in Milan. She has published articles on a number of subjects including arbitration, international law, EU law, terrorism and human rights. She was admitted to practice law in Italy in Philippe Couvreur has been the Registrar of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) since 2000 (re-elected in 2007 and 2014). He studied law at the Faculties of Notre-Dame de la Paix (Namur), Université catholique de Louvain (where he also studied philosophy), King s College London and the Universidad complutense (Madrid). At the ICJ he has been Special Assistant in the offices of the Registrar and Deputy-Registrar, Secretary,

3 Contributors ix First Secretary and Principal Legal Secretary (Head of the Legal Department). He has been guest lecturer in public international law at the Law Faculty of the Université catholique de Louvain since 1997 and taught inter alia at the Law Faculty of the University of Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) and at the Ecole des Hautes études commerciales Saint-Louis. He is a Corresponding Member of the Spanish Royal Academy of Moral and Political Sciences and member of various other learned societies, and is the author of numerous publications. Geert De Baere is Associate Professor of International Law and EU Law at the Institute for European Law and the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies at KU Leuven. He studied law at the University of Antwerp (Cand. Iuris, 1999 and Lic. Iuris, 2002) and at King s College, Cambridge (LLM, 2003 and PhD, 2007). In 2005, he was a visiting research fellow at Columbia Law School s European Legal Studies Center, New York City. From 2007 to 2009, he worked as a référendaire in the chambers of Advocate General Sharpston at the Court of Justice of the EU, while being a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Antwerp. His publications include G De Baere, Constitutional Principles of EU External Relations (OUP, 2008), E Cloots, G De Baere, and S Sottiaux (eds), Federalism in the EU (Hart Publishing, 2012), and PJ Kuijper, J Wouters, F Hoffmeister, G De Baere, and T Ramopoulos, The Law of EU External Relations: Cases, Materials, and Commentary on the EU as an International Legal Actor (OUP, 2013). Andreas Follesdal is Professor of Political Philosophy affiliated with the Department of Philosophy at the University of Tromsø. PhD 1991 in Philosophy, Harvard University. Director of the Norwegian Centre of Excellence PluriCourts for the Study of the Legitimate Roles of the Judiciary in the Global Order ( ). Principal Investigator, European Research Council Advanced Grant MultiRights , on the legitimacy of multi-level human rights judiciary. Publishes on a variety of issues concerning Human Rights, Globalisation, Democracy, and Europeanisation. Fellow of The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Daniel Fransen is the Pre-Trial Judge of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL). After working as a defence lawyer at the Brussels Bar from 1989 to 1993 and subsequently as a lawyer in the public service at the Société régionale du Port de Bruxelles (1994 to 1995), he entered the judiciary, where he served as an investigating judge at the Brussels District Court for more than ten years. He dealt with serious and organised financial and economic crimes before specialising in international humanitarian law and terrorism cases. Until his appointment as

4 x International and supranational courts and the rule of law the Pre-Trial Judge of the STL, Judge Fransen was dean of the investigating judges specialising in terrorism in Belgium (2006 to 2009). He has written several publications on terrorism. Philippe Gautier has been the Registrar of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) since He was Deputy Registrar of the Tribunal from 1997 to He is also Professor at the Catholic University of Louvain (Louvain-la-Neuve). He began his career in the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs ( ), where he served as Head of the Treaties Division ( ) and as Head of the Law of the Sea Office ( ). He is doctor of law and holds a master in philosophy from the Catholic University of Louvain (Louvain-la-Neuve) where he has been teaching since He is the author of numerous publications on the law of treaties, protection of the environment, the law of international organizations, settlement of international disputes, law of the sea and Antarctica. Paul Lemmens has been a Judge at the European Court of Human Rights since He is also a Professor of Human Rights Law at KU Leuven. He studied law at the universities of Antwerp and Leuven and at Northwestern University (Chicago). In 1987 he obtained his PhD in Law at KU Leuven. He was a visiting professor of human rights law at Northwestern University (1999). Since 1994 he has been a judge, later a chamber president in the Council of State. Previously, he worked as an attorney at the Brussels Bar and was an auditor in the Council of State. Koen Lenaerts is a Judge and the President of the Court of Justice of the European Union and Professor of EU Law at KU Leuven. He studied law at the Faculties of Notre-Dame de la Paix (Namur), KU Leuven and Harvard University, and obtained a PhD in Law in 1982 in Leuven. He was the founding director of the Institute for European Law of KU Leuven. From 1989 to 2003 he was Judge at the General Court of the European Union. Since 2003 he has been a Judge at the European Court of Justice. He was made an Honorary Master of the Bench of the Inner Temple, London, in Peter Van den Bossche has been a Member of the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization (WTO) since 2009 and currently serves as its Chair. He is also Professor of International Economic Law at Maastricht University and Visiting Professor at the College of Europe, Bruges, the World Trade Institute, Berne and the Faculty of Law of the University of Barcelona. He holds a Doctorate in Law from the European University Institute, Florence, an LL.M. from the University of Michigan Law School and a Master in Law from the University of Antwerp. Previously,

5 Contributors xi he was Counsellor and subsequently Acting Director of the WTO Appellate Body Secretariat. From 1990 to 1992, he served as a référendaire of Advocate General Walter van Gerven at the European Court of Justice. He has published extensively in the field of international economic law. He is the author (with W. Zdouc) of The Law and Policy of the World Trade Organization, 3 rd edition (Cambridge University Press, 2013). Hans van Houtte is the President of the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal. He holds a degree in European Law, an LLM from Harvard and a diploma cum laude from the Hague Academy of International Law, and obtained a PhD in Law at KU Leuven. He is member of several learned societies, inter alia the Institut de Droit International. He taught arbitration, international business law, conflicts of law and public international law at KU Leuven. He has published extensively on international commercial law and arbitration and has been involved in international commercial arbitration since He has served as chairman, sole arbitrator and party-appointed arbitrator in over 150 commercial and investment arbitration proceedings under, among others, the rules of ICC, LCIA, ICSID, AAA, Uncitral, the European Development Fund, Cepani, the Netherlands Arbitration Institution. Jan Wouters is Full Professor of International Law and International Organizations, Jean Monnet Chair Ad Personam EU and Global Governance, Director of the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies and of the Institute for International Law at KU Leuven, and Visiting Professor at the College of Europe (Bruges), SciencesPo (Paris) and Luiss University (Rome). He is a Member of the Royal Academy of Belgium for Sciences and Arts, is President of the United Nations Association Flanders Belgium, and practises law as Of Counsel at Linklaters, Brussels. He is Editor of the International Encyclopaedia of Intergovernmental Organizations, Deputy Director of the Revue Belge de Droit International and an editorial board member in ten international journals. He has published widely on international, EU, corporate and financial law. His recent books include The European Union and Multilateral Governance (2012), International Prosecutors (2012), Informal International Lawmaking (2012), Private Standards and Global Governance (2012), China, the European Union and Global Governance (2012), The EU s Role in Global Governance (2013), National Human Rights Institutions in Europe (2013), The Law of EU External Relations (2013) and China, the EU and the Developing World (2015). He is

6 xii International and supranational courts and the rule of law Coordinator of a large-scale FP7 Programme FRAME, Fostering Human Rights Among European (External and Internal) Policies and Holder of the InBev-Baillet Latour EU China Chair at KU Leuven.