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Thomas Skouteris

  • Position: Associate Professor and Chair of Law
  • Department: Department of Law
  • Email: [email protected]
Brief Biography

Thomas Skouteris is a Greek/Dutch jurist specialized in international law and related fields. He is an associate professor (tenured) at the Department of Law and director of the Ibrahim Shihata Memorial LLM Program in International and Comparative Law. Before joining AUC in 2008, Skouteris taught at Leiden University (2000-2008) and the Central European University (2013-2014) and worked as a research fellow at the T.M.C. Asser Institute in the Hague. He was also a senior fellow at the European Law Research Centre at Harvard Law School.

Skouteris received his LLB in law in Greece (Democritos University, 1993) and continued his education at Leiden University in the Netherlands (LLM cum laude, 1996; PhD, 2008). His research and teaching interests revolve around core and specialized issues of public international law, with an emphasis on normativity, theory and history of international law, globalization, dispute settlement and international criminal law. His publications include a monograph (The Notion of Progress in International Law Discourse (TMC Asser Press/Cambridge University Press, 2010)), four edited books, several journal symposia, articles, and book chapters, as well as review essays and media articles. Skouteris serves/has served as the editor-in-chief (currently as the general editor) of the Leiden Journal of International Law, advisory editor of the London Review of International Law and as a reviewer for several journals and publishers. He is one of the founding members, and the first secretary-general of the European Society of International Law, and of the Foundation for New Research in International Law. He has recently published Retrials: The New Histories of International Law (2019, Oxford University Press) and he is under contract (with Hani Sayed) for an Oxford Handbook on International Law and the Arab World (Oxford University Press, 2020). For a list of publications and ongoing research projects, click here. 

Research Interest
  • Public International Law
  • History and Theory of International Law
  • International Dispute Settlement
  • International Criminal Law

Monographs

  • Skouteris, T. (2010), The Notion of Progress in International Law Discourse, The Hague, Zuid Holland: T.M.C. Asser Press/Cambridge University Press (distribution).

Edited Books and Volumes

  • (forthcoming, 2018) Skouteris T. & Tallgren I. (eds.), International Criminal Law and its Histories (Oxford University Press) (under contract)

  • U. Ozsu & T. Skouteris (Eds.), “International Legal Histories of the Ottoman Empire”, Journal for the History of International Law 1-145 (2015) (with Editorial Note).

  • Skouteris, T. & Vagias (eds.) (2014), M., International Organizations and Human Rights: Essays in Honor of Professor Paroula Naskou-Perraki, Athens: Themis Publishing.
  • Skouteris, T., and L.-A. Siciliano's (eds.) (2012), "The European Tradition in International Law: Nicolas Politis," European Journal of International Law.
  • Skouteris, T., F. Johns, and W. Werner Eds. (2011), “The Periphery Series: The League of Nations and the Construction of the Periphery”, Special Issue of the Leiden Journal of International Law, Cambridge, United Kingdom: Leiden Journal of International Law/ Cambridge University Press.
  • Skouteris, T., F. Johns, and W. Werner Eds. (2010), The Periphery Series: India and International Law, Special Issue of the Leiden Journal of International Law, Cambridge, United Kingdom: Leiden Journal of International Law/ Cambridge University Press.
  • Skouteris, T., F. Johns, and W. Werner Eds. (2008), The Periphery Series: Taslim Olawale Elias, Special Issue of the Leiden Journal of International Law, Cambridge, United Kingdom: Leiden Journal of International Law/ Cambridge University Press.
  • Skouteris, T.  A. Vermeer-Kunzli (eds.) (2007), The Protection of the Individual in International Law: Essays in Honor of John Dugard. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Skouteris, T., F. Johns, and W. Werner Eds. (2006), The Periphery Series: Alejandro Alvarez, Special Issue of the Leiden Journal of International Law, Cambridge, United Kingdom: Leiden Journal of International Law/ Cambridge University Press.

Peer-Reviewed Contributions (Book Chapters and Law Review Articles)

  • (forthcoming, 2017) Skouteris, T., “The Idea of Progress”, in J. D’Aspremont & S. Singh, Fundamental Concepts of International Law (Edward Elgar, 2017) Edward Elgar.
  • (forthcoming, 2017) Skouteris, T., "Η Φυση και η Λειτουργια του Διεθνους Δικαιου (The Nature and Function of International Law, in Greek)," in K. Antonopoulos & K. Magliveras (Eds.), The Law of the International Society (Το Δικαιο της Διεθνους Κοινωνιας). 3rd Revised Edition. Athens, Greece: Nomiki Vivliothiki (Νομικη Βιβλιοθηκη),
  • Skouteris, T. (2017), “The Historical Turn in International Law”, Oxford Bibliographies Online, (Tony Carty, Ed.), Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.
  • Skouteris, T., “Progress” (2016), in A. Orford & F. Hoffmann (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of the Theory of International Law:  939-953 (Oxford University Press, 2016)
  • Skouteris, T. (2012), "Engaging History in International Law," in New Approaches to International Law: The European and American Experiences, (Jose Maria Beneyto & David Kennedy, Eds.), The Hague, Zuid Holland, The Netherlands: T.M.C. Asser Press, 99-121.
  • Skouteris, T. (2012), “New Approaches to International Law”, Oxford Bibliographies Online, (Tony Carty, Ed.), Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.
  • Skouteris, T., and L.-A. Sicilianos (2012), "Editorial Note: Symposium on Nicolas Politis," European Journal of International Law/ Oxford University Press, 215-219.
  • Skouteris, T. (2011), "Η Φυση και η Λειτουργια του Διεθνους Δικαιου (The Nature and Function of International Law, in Greek)," in The Law of the International Society (Το Δικαιο τηςΔιεθνους Κοινωνιας), (K. Antonopoulos & K. Magliveras, Eds.), Athens, Greece: Nomiki Vivliothiki (Νομικη Βιβλιοθηκη), 3-32.
  • Skouteris, T. (2011), "Post-1989 as a Narrative," in Select Proceedings of the 3rd Biennial Conference of the European Society of International Law, (James Crawford and Sarah Nouwen, Eds.), Oxford, United Kingdom: Hart Publishing, 389-394.
  • Skouteris, T. (2011), "The Force of a Doctrine," in Events: The Force of International Law, (Fleur Johns, Richard Joyce, and Sandhya Pahuja, Eds.), Abingdon, United Kingdom: Routledge/ Glasshouse, 69-80.
  • Skouteris, T. (2008), "The New Tribalism: Strategies of De-Legitimation in the Era of International Adjudication", Finnish Yearbook of International Law, 17, 307-356.
  • Skouteris, T. (2005), "The Vocabulary of Progress in Interwar International Law", European Journal of International Law/ Oxford University Press, 16, 823-856.
  • Skouteris, T. (2000), "The Sources of International Law: Tales of Progress", Hague Yearbook of International Law, 2000, 11-17.
  • Skouteris, T. (1999), "Customary Rules of Interpretation in Public International Law and Interpretative Practices in the WTO Dispute Settlement System," in International Trade Law on the 50th Anniversary of the Multilateral Trade System, (Paolo Mengozzi, Ed.), Milan, Italy: Giuffre Editore, 113-144.
  • Skouteris, T. (1999), "Bridging the Gap: The 1999 Meeting of the American Society of International Law", Leiden Journal of International Law/ Cambridge University Press, 12, 505-509.
  • Skouteris, T. (1998), "Under Rhodes's Eyes: The "Old" and "New" International Law at Looking Distance", Leiden Journal of International Law/ Cambridge University Press, 11, 429-440.
  • Skouteris, T. (1997), "Fin de NAIL: New Approaches to International Law and Its Impact on Contemporary Scholarship", Leiden Journal of International Law/ Cambridge University Press, 10, 415-420.

Ph.D, Leiden University (2008)

LLM (cum laude), Leiden University (1996) 

LLB, Democritos University of Thrace (1993)