Jure Vidmar is Professor of Public International Law at Maastricht University (the Netherlands). Prior to that, he held several teaching and research positions in the University of Oxford and was a Research Fellow of St John’s College, Oxford. He is also affiliated with the Faculty of Law at the University of Pretoria (South Africa), and held a visiting position at Harvard Law School (USA). Jure has published widely in several areas of international law. His books include ‘Democratic Statehood in International Law: The Emergence of New States in Post-Cold War Practice’ (Oxford, Hart, 2013, Runner-up for the Peter Birks Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship in 2014), and ‘Hierarchy in International Law: The Place of Human Rights’ (Oxford, OUP, 2012, with Erika de Wet). Jure also sits on the editorial boards of several scholarly journals and is the editor-in-chief of the Hague Yearbook of International Law.