The authority of International Organisations: epistemic and otherwise

Jan Klabbers, Academy Professor, Martti Ahtisaari Chair and Professor of International Law, the University of Helsinki

Biography

Jan Klabbers is currently Academy Professor at the University of Helsinki, holding the Martti Ahtisaari Chair and Professor of International Law. He taught international law and EU law at the University of Amsterdam, he was one of the inaugural fellows at the Straus Institute for the Advanced Study of Law and Justice at New York University School of Law, and has held visiting professorships at, amongst others, the Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies, Erasmus School of Law (Rotterdam), and the Sorbonne. He is the recipient of three teaching awards at the University of Helsinki.

 Among his publications:

- International Law, 2nd edn (Cambridge University Press, 2017)

- ‘Theorising International Organisations’, in Anne Orford and Florian Hoffmann (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the Theory of International Law (Oxford University Press, 2016); -An Introduction to International Organizations Law, 3rd  edn (Cambridge University Press, 2015).