Dr. Eric De Brabandere is Associate Professor of International Law at Leiden University’s Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies. He is a Visiting Professor at the Faculté Libre de Droit of the Université Catholique de Lille, France. He is a senior editor of the Leiden Journal of International Law (section 'Current Legal Developments') and a member of the Board of Editors of the Revue belge de droit international (Belgian Review of International Law).

Eric De Brabandere holds a law degree cum laude from Ghent University (2001) and a Diplôme d’Etudes Approfondies en Droit International Public (LLM) (mention ‘bien’) of the University of Geneva (2002). He received his doctorate in law (PhD) from Ghent University in 2007. Between 2002 and 2007, he worked part-time as assistant-lecturer in international law at the Department of Public International Law at Ghent University, as a lecturer in international institutions and international trade at the Karel de Grote University College in Antwerp, and as an attorney-at-law at the Brussels Bar.
 
His areas of expertise include international dispute settlement and arbitration, general international law, human rights and the law of peace and security. He is the author of several publications in these fields, including the book ‘Post-conflict Administrations in International Law: International Territorial Administration, Transitional Authority and Foreign Occupation in Theory and Practice (Martinus Nijhoff, 2009). He was recently awarded a VENI research grant from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) to conduct a three-year research project on the Resolution of Contemporary Investment Disputes.

At Leiden University, Eric De Brabandere teaches the courses International Dispute Settlement in te the Regular and Advanced Master Programs in Public International Law.

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Publications (selection)

Book

• Post-conflict Administrations in International Law. International Territorial Administration, Transitional Authority and Foreign Occupation in Theory and Practice ( Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2009), 332 p. Click here to read the Introduction of the book.
• International Investment Law. Sources of Rights and Obligations (edited with T. Gazzini) (Leiden/Boston: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2012) (forthcoming)

• The ICSID Rule on Early Dismissal of Unmeritorious Investment Treaty Claims : Preserving the Integrity of ICSID Arbitration”, 9(1) Manchester Journal of International Economic Law (2012) (forthcoming).
• Individuals in Advisory Proceedings before the International Court of Justice: Equality of the Parties and the Court’s Discretionary Authority”, 11(2) The Law and Practice of International Courts and Tribunals (2012), pp.  1–27 (forthcoming).
• Le droit international relatif au commerce avec les territoires palestiniens occupés”, (with L. van den Herik), 45 Revue Belge de Droit International (2012/1) (forthcoming) (Translation : International Law and Commercial Activities with the Occupied Palestinion Territories
• La 63ème session de la Commission du droit international”, 44 Revue Belge de Droit International (20011/1-2) (with A. Sapir) (Translation : The 63nd Session of the International Law Commission) (forthcoming).
• Economie et finances”, in E. David (ed.) “La pratique du pouvoir exécutif et le contrôle des chambres législatives en matière de droit international (2008-2011) ”, 44 Revue Belge de Droit International (2011/1-2), (Translation : “Economy and Finance”, in E. David (ed.) “The Practice of the Executive Power and the Control by the Legislative Chambers in Respect of International Law (2007-2011))
• International Territorial Administrations and Post-Conflict Reforms : Reflections on the Need of a Jus Post Bellum as a Legal Framework”, 44 Revue Belge de Droit International (2011/1-2) (forthcoming).
• P.R.I.M.E. Finance: The Role and Function of the New Arbitral Institution”. ASIL Insights, 16 (3), pp. 1-6, available at http://www.asil.org/pdfs/insights/insight120208.pdf.
• NGOs and the ‘Public Interest’: The Legality and Rationale of Amicus Curiae Interventions in International Economic and Investment Disputes”, 12 Chicago Journal of International Law (2011), pp. 85-113.
• Legitimacy of Origin v. Legitimacy of Exercise : The Complementary Faces of Legitimacy in International Law”, (with J. d’Aspremont), 43 Fordham International Law Journal (2011).
• Immunity of International Organizations in Post-conflict International Administrations’. 7 (1) International Organizations Law Review (2010), pp. 79-119
• La 62ième session de la Commission du droit international”, 43 Revue Belge de Droit International (20010/2), pp. 633-653 (with F. Schaus) (Translation : The 62nd Session of the International Law Commission)
• “Het advies van het Nederlandse Gerechtshof inzake de onafhankelijkheidsverklaring van Kosovo: Wat het Hof wel en niet gezegd heeft  ”, 64 (10) Internationale Spectator (2010), pp. 545-548. (translation: The International Cour of Justice’s Advice on the Declaration of Independence of Kosovo: What the Court did and did not say) (De PDF van dit artikel is met toestemming van de redactie overgenomen uit de Internationale Spectator, maandblad voor Internationale politiek, uitgegeven door de Koninklijke Van Gorcum te Assen namens het Nederlands Instituut voor Internationale Betrekkingen Clingendael te Den Haag).
•  “The Responsibility for Post-Conflict Reforms: A Critical Assessment of Jus Post Bellum as a Legal Concept”, Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law (2010), 119-149. 
• “Human Rights and Non-State Actors in a State-Centric Legal System: The Theoretical and Practical Limits of ‘Stateless’ Approaches to Direct Corporate Responsibility”, 4 (1) Human Rights and International Legal Discourse (2010), 66-88.
•  “Non-State Actors, State-Centrism and Human Rights Obligations”, 22 Leiden Journal of International Law (2010), 191-209. 
• “La 61ième session de la Commission du droit international”, 42 Revue Belge de Droit International (2009) (Issue 2) (forthcoming)
• “Questions sociales et sanitaires”, in E. David (ed.) “La pratique du pouvoir exécutif et le contrôle des chambres législatives en matière de droit international (2003-2007) ”, 41 Revue Belge de Droit International (2008) (Issue 1-2), published as Erratum in Issue 2009/2 (forthcoming) (Translation : “Social and Sanitary Issues”, in E. David (ed.) “The Practice of the Executive Power and the Control by the Legislative Chambers in Respect of International Law (2003-2007))
• “La 60ième session de la Commission du droit international”, 41 Revue Belge de Droit International (2008) (Issue 1-2). 
•  “UN Supervision of Post-Conflict Reconstruction and the Domestic Jurisdiction of States”, 59(2) Ars Aequi (2009), 103-108. 
• “La 59ième session de la Commission du droit international”, 40 Revue Belge de Droit International (2007) (Issue 2). 
• “La 58ième session de la Commission du droit international”, 40 Revue Belge de Droit International (2007) (Issue 1), 243-256. 
• “Opvolging van staten inzake bilaterale (dubbelbelasting)verdragen”, 332 Tijdschrift voor Fiscaal Recht [België] 1019-1028 (2007) (Translation: State succession in respect of bilateral (double taxation) treaties). 
• “Democratic Governance and Post-Conflict Reconstruction”, co-authored with Marc Cogen, 20 Leiden Journal of International Law 669 (2007) 

• Judicial and Arbitral Decisions as a Source of Rights and Obligations” in E. De Brabandere and T. Gazzini, International Investment Law. Sources of Rights and Obligations (Leiden/Boston: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2012) (forthcoming). 
•   Acteurs économiques transnationaux et protection internationale des droits sociaux”, in Actes de la 42ème Session de L’Institut International des Droits de l’Homme (Paris : Pedone, 2012) (forthcoming).
• La doctrine en tant que source de droit à l’OMC”, in V. Tomkiewicz (ed.), L’OMC et les sources du droit (Bruxelles, Bruylant, 2012) (forthcoming) (translation : "Legal Writings as a Source of Law at the WTO")
• “Human Rights Considerations in International Investment Arbitration”, in M. Fitzmaurice and P. Merkouris (eds.), Current Issues in Human Rights’ Law and Practice (working title) (Boston/Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2012) (forthcoming).
• The Regulation of Incitement to Terrorism in International Law”, in L. Hennebel and H. Tigroudja, Balancing Liberty and Security: The Human Rights Pendulum (Wolf Legal Publishers, 2012), pp. 221-240.
• The Duality of Legitimacy of Global Actors in the International Legal Order”, (with J. d’Aspremont) in M.C. Happold (ed.), International Law in a Multipolar World (London: Routledge, 2011), pp. 179-202.
• “Immunity as a Guarantee for Institutional Autonomy: A Functional Perspective on UN Immunity in Post-conflict Situations”, in N. White and R. Collins, International Organisations and the Idea of Autonomy (Abingdon: Routledge, 2011), pp. 278-296.  
• “Non-State Actors and Human Rights: Corporate Responsibility and the Attempts to Formalize the Role of Corporations as Participants in the International Legal System”, in J. d’Aspremont (ed.), Participants in the International Legal System Multiple Perspectives on Non-State Actors in International Law (Abingdon: Routledge, 2011), pp. 268-283.  
• “Pragmatism in International Law: Non-State Actors and International Dispute Settlement”, in J. d’Aspremont (ed.), Participants in the International Legal System: Multiple Perspectives on Non-State Actors in International Law (Abingdon: Routledge, 2011), pp. 342-359.  
• “Non-State Actors and the Individualization and Proliferation of International Dispute Settlement”, in B. Reinalda (ed.), The Ashgate Research Companion to Non-State Actors (Farnham: Ashgate, 2011), pp. 347-359.
• “Propaganda”, in R. Wolfrum (ed.), Max Planck Encyclopaedia of Public International Law ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010)
•  “Human Rights Accountability of International Administrations : Theory and Practice in East Timor”, in J. Wouters, E. Brems and S. Smis (eds.), Accountability for Human Rights Violations by International Organisations (Antwerp: Intersentia, 2010), pp. 331-354.
• “De VN en het Internationaal Recht”, (with Marc Cogen), in Jan Wouters and Cédric Reyngaert, De Verenigde Naties : Een wereld van verschil ? (Leuven: Acco, 2005), pp. 291-298. (Translation: The UN and International Law) 

• ‘Book Review of Matteo Tondini, Statebuilding and Justice Reform. Post-Conflict Reconstruction in Afghanistan, Routledge, 2010, 161 pp’, International and Comparatve Law Quarterly (2010 ) (forthcoming)
• ‘Book Review of Bernhard Knoll, The Legal Status of Territories Subject to Administration by International Organisations, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2008, 519 p)’, 3 Vienna Online Journal of International Constitutional Law (2009), 247-250. http://www.internationalconstitutionallaw.net/download/f99b051de35557043f8d658e480a308e/ICL_Journal_Vol_3_3_09.pdf
•  “Mensenrecht en de aanhoudende zoektocht naar de uitbreiding van het toepassingsgebied”, (Book review of Margot E. Salomon, Arne Tostensen en Wouter Vandenhole (eds.), Casting the Net Wider: Human Rights, Development and New Duty-Bearers’), 62 Internationale Spectator (2008), pp. 691-692.

• L’indépendance du Kosovo et le droit international, Institut de la démocratie et de la coopération, Paris, Conférence sur le droit à la sécession en droit international, 29 May 2009.
• 'State-Centrism and Human Rights Obligations Challenging ‘Stateless’ Approaches towards Direct Corporate Responsibility', Working Paper, Non-State Actors in International Law Project, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven.
• ‘The Kosovo Advisory Proceedings and the Court's Advisory Jurisdiction as a Method of Dispute Settlement’, Seminar: ‘The International Court of Justice and Kosovo: Opinion or Non-Opinion?’ Amsterdam Centre for International Law, University of Amsterdam, 22 September 2010, available at the Hague Justice Portal.