Name Flinterman, Cornelis

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Academic Title Prof. dr.

Full Name Cees Flinterman

Position Honorary Professor

Profile text Cees Flinterman is honorary professor of human rights since November 2007. Before that he was inter alia director of the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM) and Director of the Netherlands School of Human Rights Research. His research interests include the United Nations system of human rights, human rights and foreign policy, public international law and (comparative) constitutional law, gender and human rights.

E-Mail [email protected]

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Telephone +31 (0)30 253 7214

Fax +31 (0)30 253 7168

Secretariat Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM): +31 (0)30 253 8033

Working Days Monday

Office Hours 10.00-17.00

Contact Hours 10.00-17.00

Visiting Address Drift 15, 3512 BR Utrecht, The Netherlands

Post Address Drift 15, 3512 BR Utrecht, The Netherlands

Curriculum Vitae a. Education • LL.M. degree Leiden University (1969), University of Virginia (1971) • Ph.D. degree Leiden University (1981) b. Non-judicial legal activities • (Senior) lecturer in comparative and constitutional law, University of Leiden (1969-1970, 1971-1974, 1976-1978); • Visiting lecturer in law (comparative and constitutional law), University of Ghana, Ghana, 1974-1976; • Research fellow of the Ghana Law Reform Commission, Accra, Ghana, 1974-1976; • Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Department of International Organisations, Legal and Social Affairs Division, The Hague, 1979-1981; • Professor of Law (international and constitutional law), Maastricht University, The Netherlands, 1982-1998: • Dean of the Faculty of Law, 1984-1986; • Chairman of the International and European Law Department, 1986-1991, 1994-1996; • Chairman Board of Directors, Research Institute, Faculty of Law, 1991-1993; • Co-director of the Maastricht University Research Centre for Human Rights, 1993-1998. • Professor of Human Rights, Utrecht University, The Netherlands, 1998- 2007: • Director of the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM), Utrecht University; • Director of the Netherlands School of Human Rights Research (participating institutes: Faculties of Law of Utrecht University, Maastricht University, Tilburg University, Erasmus University (Rotterdam), Faculty of Humanities of Utrecht University, and the T.M.C. Asser Institute for International Law (the Hague). c. Elected posts: • Alternate member of the UN Sub-Commission for the Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities (1986-1991); • Member of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) (2003-2010).

Selected Publications • Flinterman, C. (associate ed.) & H.B. Schoepp-Schilling (ed.) The Circle of Empowerment. Twenty-five years of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women. The Feminist Press, City University of ew York, New York (October 2007); • Flinterman, C. & Van Genugten, W.J.M., eds., Niet-Statelijke Actoren en de Rechten van de Mens: Gevestigde Waarden, Nieuwe Wegen, Boom Uitgeverij, Den Haag, (2003); • Flinterman, C. & Baehr, P. and Senders, M. Innovation and Inspiration: Fifty Years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, KNAW, Amsterdam (1999); • Flinterman, C., Erades, L. and Fitzmaurice, M., Interactions between International and Municipal Law, T.M.C. Asser Instituut, Den Haag, 1993; • Flinterman, C., Hamalengwa, M., and Dankwa, E.V.O., The International Law of Human Rights in Africa: Basic Documents and Annotated Bibliography, Nijhoff, Dordrecht, 1988.

Themes of Teaching Teachings: European and international law of human rights

Guest Lectures: United Nations and human rights, women’s human rights

Presentations and themes: Various aspects of the European and international system of protection and promotion of human rights

Sideline Activities • Editor in Chief of the Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights; • Member of the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) • Member of the Advisory Council on International Affairs, Commission on Human Rights • Ethical Advisor of the Pensionfunds PFZW • Honorary professor of human rights, Maastricht University, the Netherlands • Member of the editorial board of the Maastricht Journal on European and Comparative Law, Human Rights Discourse (Belgium) and African Journal of Human Rights

Expertise International human (rights and humanitarian) law Constitutional law