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The postdoctoral researcher will carry out research within the project on International Law Through the Prism of National Courts, funded under the ECRP scheme of the European Science Foundation. He or she will be based at the Amsterdam Center for International Law (ACIL), which collaborates in this project with the Universities of Berlin, Oslo, Vienna, Warsaw, Siena, and Tel Aviv. The project will explore the legal status and effects of decisions of national courts in the international legal order. The increasing reliance of the international legal order on national courts and the growing practice of national courts in applying international law raise the question whether the traditional principle that decisions of domestic courts are merely facts, still accurately captures the legal role and relevance of national court decisions in the international legal order. Among other things, the project intends to map and study the ways in which decisions of national courts influence the deve...

New Checks and Balances at the Interface(s) between International and National Law (Post Doc) The postdoctoral researcher will carry out research within the project New Checks and Balances at the Interface(s) between International and National Law. The project is part of the research project Internationalization of the Rule of Law, organized jointly with the Hague Institute for the Internationalization of Law. He or she will be based at the Amsterdam Center for International Law (ACIL). The project will explore the role of national courts in the normative contestation between the international and the national rule of law. In recent years, in an increasing number of cases (involving the application of Security Council Resolutions, but also judgments of the European Court of Human Rights), national courts have declined to give effect to international obligations on the ground that such decisions would conflict with the rule of law or on other ground would be illegitimate. The project...