Liesbeth Zegveld

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Liesbeth Zegveld (2018)

Liesbeth Zegveld (born  January 14, 1970 in Ridderkerk ) is a Dutch lawyer . It is since 2005 partner in the on criminal law , immigration law and international law and human rights oriented Amsterdam firm Prakken d'Oliveira Human Rights Lawyers and also since 2013 a professor of war reparations at the University of Amsterdam , having previously from 2006 to 2013 as a professor of international humanitarian law worked at the University of Leiden . Her main focus is the legal support of war victims .

Life

Liesbeth Zegveld was born in Ridderkerk in 1970 and studied law at the University of Utrecht , which she completed in May 2000 with a doctorate on the liability of armed resistance groups under international law. In the same year, she switched to the Amsterdam- based law firm Prakken d'Oliveira Human Rights Lawyers , which specializes in criminal law , immigration law , and international law and human rights and operated under the name Böhler Advocaten until 2014 . She has been a partner in the firm since 2005, where she also heads the international law and human rights department.

From 2006 to 2013 she was also professor of international humanitarian law , with a focus on women's and children's rights , at the University of Leiden. Since October 2013 she has been professor of war reparation at the University of Amsterdam . She is also a member of the International Law Association's Committee on War Victims Compensation .

Act

Liesbeth Zegveld's legal and academic interests apply in particular to legal remedies and ways to support and compensate war victims . From 2005, she represented relatives of victims of the Srebrenica massacre in proceedings against the United Nations and the Dutch government for the behavior of UN blue helmet soldiers from the Dutch battalion Dutchbat before and during the massacre.

In the same year she also acted as the lawyer for survivors affected by Saddam Hussein's poison gas attacks against Kurds in Iraq in a lawsuit against the Dutch businessman Frans van Anraat . He had been charged with complicity in war crimes in the 1980s for supplying the raw materials for the manufacture of chemical warfare agents to Iraq and was found guilty by a Dutch court in December 2005. She advised Salo Muller , who, on behalf of Dutch Holocaust victims , demanded compensation from the Nederlandse Spoorwegen railway company , as it had also earned money from the deportation of Jewish people.

She also advises the environmental protection organization Sea Shepherd Conservation Society in relation to their activities against Japanese whaling and the Dutch representation of Greenpeace in several proceedings against the company Trafigura regarding the disposal of toxic waste in the Ivory Coast .

Awards

Liesbeth Zegveld received the Dutch Human Rights Prize in 2000 and the Modderman Prize in 2005, the highest academic award in the Netherlands in the field of criminal law. The Dutch Human Rights League ( Liga voor de Rechten van de Mens ) awarded her the Clara Meijer-Wichmann Penning in 2011 .

Works (selection)

  • Constraints on the Waging of War: An Introduction to International Humanitarian Law. Geneva 2001 (as co-author)
  • Accountability of Armed Opposition Groups in International Law. Cambridge 2002
  • Remedies for Victims of Violations of International Humanitarian Law. In: International Review of the Red Cross. 851/2003. Pp. 499-528
  • Compensation for the Victims of Chemical Warfare in Iraq and Iran. In: Reparations for Victims of Genocide, War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity: Systems in Place and Systems in the Making. Leiden and Boston 2009, pp. 369-382
  • Victims' Reparations Claims and International Criminal Courts: Incompatible Values? In: Journal of International Criminal Justice. 8 (1) / 2010. Pp. 79-111

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hoe Salo Muller de NS alsnog de rekening van de oorlog presenteerde. In: vn.nl. January 17, 2020, accessed July 30, 2020 (Dutch).
personal data
SURNAME Zegveld, Liesbeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch lawyer and professor for international humanitarian law at the University of Leiden
DATE OF BIRTH January 14, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Ridderkerk