Otto Spijkers

Otto Spijkers is an assistant professor of international and European law at Leiden University College (LUC), Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs of Leiden University.

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Knowledge Under Occupation: Academic Freedom and Palestine on the Global Stage

Protesting and Teaching about Israel-Palestine in The Netherlands, and the Problem of Double Standards

Otto Spijkers Jeff Handmaker Renee Kolpa

While Dutch academic institutions swiftly and unambiguously condemned Russia’s aggression of Ukraine in February of 2022, soon thereafter accompanied by sweeping institutional sanctions, they have mostly refrained from responding in...

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Climate Justice

Pursuing climate justice through public interest litigation: the Urgenda case

This blog post critically examines the contribution of public interest litigation to the global fight for climate justice. I consider the Urgenda case, which culminated in the Netherlands’ Supreme Court...