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Janne Nijman is Professor of History and Theory of International Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Amsterdam and senior fellow of the Amsterdam Center for International Law (ACIL). Nijman is also Professor of International Law at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. Previously, she has been Chairperson of the Executive Board of the T.M.C. Asser Instituut in The Hague, and its academic director (2015-2022). Nijman is a member of the Advisory Council on International Affairs (AIV) and chair of its permanent Committee on Human Rights (2023-2026). During Michaelmas Term (2022-2023), she was a Visiting Fellow at the Lauterpacht Center for International Law and a Visiting Scholar at Jesus College in Cambridge (UK).

Her research centers on how the past, present, and future of international law influence each other. Currently, her research is focused on two themes 'Dutch Empire and International Law' and 'Cities and International Law'. Nijman has been PI of the research project ‘The Global City: Challenges, Trust and the Role of (International) Law (2016-2021)’ hosted at the Asser Institute. The project included four individual PhD projects supported by the Gieskes Strijbis Foundation. Together with Helmut Aust (FU Berlin), Janne Nijman co-chairs the ILA Study Group on 'The Role of Cities in International law'. She is an Advisory Editor of the London review of International Law.

Nijman studied law at the University of Leiden (Meester in de Rechten, 1996) and the Université Robert Schuman in Strasbourg. She defended her doctoral thesis in public international law at Leiden University in 2004. Janne Nijman has been a Global Research Fellow of New York University School of Law (2003-04), affiliated to the History and Theory of International Law Program of the Institute for International Law and Justice, an Early Career Visiting Fellow at Queen Mary College School of Law, University of London (summer 2006), and a Visiting Scholar at the Johns Hopkins University Bologna Institute for Policy Research (Spring term 2012). From 2007-2014, she has been Dean to the Law Faculty's PhD Candidates.

Her current research focuses on the history and politics of conscience in international law.