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Mr. M. (Merle) Kooijman MA

PhD fellow
Faculty of Law
Criminal Law
Visiting address
  • Roetersstraat 11
Postal address
  • Postbus 15575
    1001 NB Amsterdam
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  • Profile

    Merle Kooijman (1994) works as PhD fellow at the Amsterdam Center for Criminal Justice (ACCJ) at the University of Amsterdam’s criminal law section. She works on a dissertation on the philosophical foundations of an international crime of ecocide, supervised by prof. dr. Göran Sluiter, dr. Sergey Vasiliev and dr. Laura Burgers. Her research interests include critical legal theory, (international) criminal law (theory), environmental philosophy and posthumanist philosophy. Kooijman teaches criminal law courses in the bachelor and master program.

    Kooijman has graduated from Utrecht University (Bachelor in law and Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy) and the University of Amsterdam (Research Master in Philosophy and Master in Criminal Law (cum laude)). For her PhD research, she stayed for three months at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2023.

  • Publications

    2023

    • Kooijman, M. (2023). From Anthropos to Oikos in International Criminal Law: A Critical-Theoretical Exploration of Ecocide as an ‘Ecocentric’ Amendment to the Rome Statute. In D. Dam-de Jong, & F. Amtenbrink (Eds.), Netherlands Yearbook of International Law 2021: A Greener International Law—International Legal Responses to the Global Environmental Crisis (pp. 101-131). (Netherlands Yearbook of International Law; Vol. 52). Asser Press. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6265-587-4_5 [details]

    2024

    • Kooijman, M. (2024). De strafbaarstelling van ecocide door de lens van groene criminologie en strafrecht. In D. van Uhm (Ed.), Basisboek groene criminologie (pp. 377). Boom Juridische Uitgevers.

    2022

    Media appearance

    Journal editor

    • Kooijman, M. (editor) (2022-2023). T.M.C. Asser Press (Publisher).

    Talk / presentation

    • Kooijman, M. (speaker) (19-6-2024). The intricacies of integrating peacetime large-scale environmental harm in the Rome Statute, Third International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding.
    • Kooijman, M. (speaker) (18-6-2024). Addressing Severe Environmental Damage Through (International) Criminal Law, addressing severe environmental damage through (international) criminal law.
    • Kooijman, M. (speaker) (2024). De (on)mogelijkheden van ecocidewetgeving, De (on)mogelijkheden van ecocidewetgeving.
    • Kooijman, M. (speaker) (2024). Rechtsfilosofische grondslagen van een strafbaarstelling van ecocide, Milieucriminaliteit - ontwikkelingen en knelpunten in normstelling, opsporing en vervolging.
    • Kooijman, M. (speaker) (2024). The intricacies of integrating ecocide in the Rome Statute - peacetime large-scale environmental harm through the lens of green criminology, addressing severe environmental damage through (international) criminal law.
    • Kooijman, M. (speaker) (2024). The intricacies of integrating ecocide in the Rome Statute, Third International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding.
    • Kooijman, M. (speaker) (6-6-2023). What Nature, What Victim, What Perpetrator? Progressive narrations and the continuous (re-)evaluation of the international criminalization of ecocide, Gezelschap Internationaal Strafrecht (GIS).
    • Kooijman, M. (speaker) (26-5-2023). What Nature, What Victim, What Perpetrator? Progressive narrations and the continuous (re-)evaluation of the international criminalization of ecocide, Ecocrimes and green justice, Utrecht.
    • Kooijman, M. (speaker) (25-5-2022). Criminalisation of ecocide as a response to the global environmental crisis: conceptual and normative reflections on an ‘ecocentric’ amendment to the Rome Statute, Rijks Universiteit Groningen.
    • Kooijman, M. (speaker) (8-4-2022). Criminalisation of ecocide as a response to the global environmental crisis: conceptual and normative reflections on an ‘ecocentric’ amendment to the Rome Statute., Tilburg University.
    • Kooijman, M. (speaker) (22-10-2021). Speaker and organization at SGEL workshop on ecocide, Workshop on ecocide, Amsterdam.

    Others

    • Burgers, L. (organiser) & Kooijman, M. (organiser) (22-10-2021). Should harm to the environment be criminalised?, Amsterdam (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
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