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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.
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J Vidmar, 'Conceptualizing Declarations of Independence in International Law' (2012) Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 153
J Vidmar, Democratic Statehood in International Law: The Emergence of New States in Post-Cold War Practice (Hart Publishing 2013)
J Vidmar, 'Explaining the Legal Effects of Recognition' (2012) International and Comparative Law Quarterly 361
J Vidmar, 'Multiparty Democracy: International and European Human Rights Law Perspectives' (2010) Leiden Journal of International Law 209
J Vidmar, 'Norm Conflicts and Hierarchy in International Law: Towards a Vertical International Legal System' in De Wet, Vidmar (eds), Hierarchy in International Law: The Place of Human Rights (Oxford University Press 2012)
J Vidmar, 'Palestine and the Conceptual Problem of Implicit Statehood' (2013) 12 Chinese Journal of International Law 1
J Vidmar, 'Rethinking Jus Cogens after Germany v. Italy: Back to Article 53?' (2013) 60 Netherlands International Law Review 1
J Vidmar, 'South Sudan and the International Legal Framework Governing the Emergence and Delimitation of New States' (2012) Texas International Law Journal 541
J Vidmar, 'The Kosovo Advisory Opinion Scrutinized' (2011) Leiden Journal of International Law 355
J Vidmar, 'The Right of Self-Determination and Multiparty Democracy: Two Sides of the Same Coin?' (2010) Human Rights Law Review 239
Teaching: Public International Law
Research: Public international law, human rights, European law, political theory
Public International Law @ Oxford
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