Menno Tjeerd Kamminga (born 1949) is a Dutch international law scholar and emeritus Professor of

International Law International law, also known as public international law and the law of nations, is the set of Rule of law, rules, norms, Customary law, legal customs and standards that State (polity), states and other actors feel an obligation to, and generall ...

Maastricht University Maastricht University (abbreviated as UM; ) is a public university, public research university in Maastricht, Netherlands. Founded in 1976, it is the second youngest of the thirteen List of universities in the Netherlands, Dutch universities. In ...

, known for work in the field of

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treaties, obligations accountability, and universal jurisdiction. Kamminga graduated from

Groningen University The University of Groningen (abbreviated as UG; , abbreviated as RUG) is a public research university of more than 30,000 students in the city of Groningen, Netherlands. Founded in 1614, the university is the second oldest in the country (after ...

in 1973, and another master's degree in international law and international relations from

The Fletcher School at Tufts University The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy is the graduate school of international affairs of Tufts University, in Medford, Massachusetts. Fletcher is one of America's oldest graduate schools of international relations. As of 2017, the student bo ...

in 1974. In 1978 he started as a Legal Adviser at the International Secretariat of

Amnesty International Amnesty International (also referred to as Amnesty or AI) is an international non-governmental organization focused on human rights, with its headquarters in the United Kingdom. The organization says that it has more than ten million members a ...

in London, where he served until 1987. Kamminga obtained his PhD from the

University of Leiden Leiden University (abbreviated as ''LEI''; ) is a public research university in Leiden, Netherlands. Established in 1575 by William, Prince of Orange as a Protestant institution, it holds the distinction of being the oldest university in the Neth ...

in 1990, with the thesis ''Inter-State Accountability of Violation of Human Rights,'' published by the University of Pennsylvania.

Manfred Nowak Manfred Nowak (born 26 June 1950 in Bad Aussee) is an Austrian human rights expert, who served as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture from 2004 to 2010. He is Secretary General of the Global Campus of Human Rights (formerly Europe ...

(1994) wrote that Kamminga "dealt with one of the most difficult and controversial question of human rights law: the antagonistic relationship between the international protection of human rights and the principle of non-intervention into internal affairs of sovereign states."Manfred Nowak,
Book Review
" ''Human Rights Quarterly.'' Vol. 16, Issue 3. Johns Hopkins University Press, Aug 1994. p. 521. Kamminga started out at the

Erasmus University Rotterdam Erasmus University Rotterdam ( ; abbreviated as EUR) is a public research university located in Rotterdam, Netherlands. The university is named after Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus, a 15th-century Christian humanist and theologian. Erasmus M ...

, where he was a senior lecturer in International Law from 1987 until 2000. He then moved to Maastricht University, where he was a Professor of International Law and Director of the Maastricht Centre for Human Rights until 2014.

Publications, a selection

* * Menno Kamminga and Martin Scheinin (eds.): ''The Impact of Human Rights Law on General International Law''. Oxford University Press 2009

References

1949 births Living people Dutch jurists Erasmus University Rotterdam alumni The Fletcher School at Tufts University alumni Leiden University alumni Academic staff of Erasmus University Rotterdam Academic staff of Maastricht University {{Jurist-stub