Jure Vidmar

Leverhulme Early Career Fellow

Jure Vidmar (MA, LLM, Dr phil, PhD) is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Faculty of Law and Research Fellow of St John's College, Oxford. Prior to taking up these posts in 2012, Jure was an Anglo-German Fellow in the Institute of European and Comparative Law, University of Oxford. His previous positions include post-doctoral researcher at the Amsterdam Center for International Law, University of Amsterdam,  and a visiting fellow at the Institute for International and Comparative Law in Africa, University of Pretoria.

Jure's main research and teaching interests lie within public international law, human rights, European law, and political theory. He has taught and/or supervised at the universities Oxford, Pretoria, Amsterdam and Nottingham. Jure is the author of a monograph entitled 'Democratic Statehood in International Law: The Emergence of New States in Post-Cold War Practice' (Oxford, Hart, 2013) and co-editor (with Erika de Wet) of 'Hierarchy in International Law: The Place of Human Rights' (Oxford, OUP, 2012). He is also an editor of the Hague Yearbook of International Law. Some of his publications are available on SSRN.