Rosanne van Alebeek is Associate Professor of International Law at the Department of International and European Law and Research Fellow at the Amsterdam Center for International Law (ACIL). She is the Academic Coordinator of the Master IEL - Public International Law, and Coordinator International Programmes of the Amsterdam Law School.
Van Alebeek is a member and vice-chair of the Advisory Committee on issues of Public International Law of the Netherlands Government.
She holds a master degree in Public International Law and in Civil Law from Leiden University (cum laude), a master in International and European Law from Oxford University (cum laude), as well as a research master from Oxford University (cum laude). In 2006, she obtained her doctoral degree from Leiden University (cum laude).
Rosanne van Alebeek is currently working on a range of research topics, including:
- General issues of immunity law
- The immunity of state officials for international crimes
- The immunity of international organizations
- The role of domestic courts in the development of international law
- The relation between the international legal order and national legal orders
- Hierarchy in international law
'Prosecuting Corruption Crimes before an International Court: Whither Immunity Rules?', Transnational Criminal Law Review 2023, p. 35-58
'Prosecuting Russian Officials for the Crime of Aggression: What About Immunities?', European Convention on Human Rights Law Review 2023, p. 115-132, with C. Ryngaert and L. van den Herik
‘Functional immunity of State officials from the criminal jurisdiction of foreign national courts’, in T. Ruys, N. Angelet & L. Ferro (eds), The Cambridge Handbook Immunities and International Law (CUP 2019), 496-524
‘Netherlands’, in F.M. Palombino (ed), Duelling for Supremacy: International Law vs. National Fundamental Principles (CUP 2019) , 255-276, with A. Nollkaemper
‘The “International Crime” Exception in the ILC Draft Articles on the Immunity of State Officials from Foreign Criminal Jurisdiction: Two Steps Back?’, AJIL Unbound 2018
‘Immunities of States and their Officials’ in A. Nollkaemper, A. Reinish, R. Janik & F. Simlinger (eds) International Law in Domestic Courts, A Casebook (OUP 2018), 100-169, with R. Pavoni
'Domestic Courts as Agents of Development of International Immunity Rules', LJIL 26 (2013), 559-578
'Introduction to Part III' , in R. O'Keefe & C. Tams (eds.), The United Nations Convention on Jurisdictional Immunities of States and Their Property: A Commentary (OUP 2013) , 153-166
'Privileges and Immunities of International Organizations in the case law of Dutch Courts', in Reinisch, A. (ed.), Transnational Judicial Conversations on the Personality, Privileges and Immunities of International Organizations (OUP 2013), 179-207, with A. Nollkaemper
'Jurisdictional Immunities of the State (Germany v Italy): On Right Outcomes and Wrong Terms', German Yearbook of International Law 55 (2012) 281-318
'National Courts, International Crimes and the Functional Immunity of State Officials', Netherlands International Law Review 59 (2012) 5-41
'The Judicial Dialogue between the ICJ and International Criminal Courts on the Question of Immunity', in L. Van den Herik & C. Stahn (eds.), The Diversification and Fragmentation in International Criminal Law (Martinus Nijhoff Publishers 2012) 93-116
'The Legal Status of Decisions by Human Rights Treaty Bodies in National Law', in: Keller, H. & Ulfstein, G. (eds.), Human Rights Treaty Bodies (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012) 356-413, with A. Nollkaemper
'Immunity and Human Rights׃ a Bifurcated Approach', Proceedings of the 104 th Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law 104 (2010), 67-72
The Immunity of States and their Officials inInternational Criminal Law and International Human Rights Law (OUP 2008) 488 pages
'Diplomatic immunity', Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law (MPEPIL) (2008) ( www.mpepil.com )
'Staatsimmuniteit', in: Horbach, N.L.J.T. , Lefeber, R.J.M. & Ribbelink, O.M. (eds.), Handboek internationaal recht (The Hague: T.M.C. Asser Press, 2007) 231-273
'The proliferation of law-making organs: a new role for the International Law Commission?', in N.M. Blokker & H.G. Schermers (eds.), Proliferation of international organizations: legal issues (Kluwer Law International, 2001), 219-24, with J. Dugard
'The Pinochet Case: International Human Rights Law on Trial', British Yearbook of International Law 71 (2000), 29-70
'From Rome to the Hague: Recent Developments on Immunity Issues in the ICC Statute', Leiden Journal of International Law 13 (2000), 485-493
Currently taught courses include:
European Human Rights Law (MA)
Principles and Foundations of International Law (MA)