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Arthur Eyffinger

Dr. Arthur C. Eyffinger is Classicist and Legal Historian. He was born in The Hague and was trained at Leiden and Amsterdam Universities.

He started out out as researcher of the works of Hugo Grotius at the Grotius Institute of the Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences (1970-1985), then to turn to the Peace Palace and modern international law (1985). For fifteen years (1988-2003) he was on the staff of the International Court of Justice and published award-winning books on the ICJ and The Hague Tradition. He founded Judicap in 2003.

Arthur Eyffinger has published extensively on humanism and the history of international law. He has edited works of Hugo Grotius and other humanist scholars and has produced monographs on the Peace Palace, the Carnegie Foundation (1988, 2004), the International Court of Justice (1996), the Hague Peace Conferences of 1899 and 1907 (1999 and 2007), on Tobias Asser (2011, 2019), on Bertha van Suttner (2013), on the Institut de droit international and on The Hague Tradition (2019).

Over the decades Arthur Eyffinger has served as president and board member of various learned institutions and as (general) editor of academic journals.

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Dr. Arthur C. Eyffinger
Dr. Arthur C. Eyffinger

Arthur Eyffinger

Dr. Arthur C. Eyffinger is Classicist and Legal Historian. He was born in The Hague and was trained at Leiden and Amsterdam Universities.

He started out out as researcher of the works of Hugo Grotius at the Grotius Institute of the Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences (1970-1985), then to turn to the Peace Palace and modern international law (1985). For fifteen years (1988-2003) he was on the staff of the International Court of Justice and published award-winning books on the ICJ and The Hague Tradition. He founded Judicap in 2003.

Arthur Eyffinger has published extensively on humanism and the history of international law. He has edited works of Hugo Grotius and other humanist scholars and has produced monographs on the Peace Palace, the Carnegie Foundation (1988, 2004), the International Court of Justice (1996), the Hague Peace Conferences of 1899 and 1907 (1999 and 2007), on Tobias Asser (2011, 2019), on Bertha van Suttner (2013), on the Institut de droit international and on The Hague Tradition (2019).

Over the decades Arthur Eyffinger has served as president and board member of various learned institutions and as (general) editor of academic journals.

Click here to view Eyffinger’s Curriculum Vitae