Nienke Grossman, L.L.M.

Primary University Representative

Nienke Grossman is a Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Center for International and Comparative Law at the University of Baltimore School of Law, where she teaches Civil Procedure, International Law, and Human Rights. Her scholarship has focused primarily on legitimacy and international courts, judicial selection and gender balance, and the International Court of Justice. She has presented her work at various law faculties in the United States and abroad, as well as at the American Society of International Law's (ASIL) Annual Meeting and Research Forum, the European Society of International Law’s Annual Meeting, the Harvard-Stanford-Yale Junior Faculty Forum, the University of Cambridge’s Lauterpacht Centre, before the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women in Geneva, and at International Law Week at the UN in New York.

In 2019, Prof. Grossman was elected to a three-year term as co-chair of the Women in International Law Interest Group (WILIG) of ASIL, where she also serves on the Standing Committee on Interest Groups and on the International Legal Theory Interest Group Executive Board. Prof. Grossman was co-chair of the 900+ ASIL International Courts and Tribunals Interest Group from 2014 to 2017. In addition, she is a Strategic Advisor to Gqual, a group dedicated to increasing the percentage of women on international law-making bodies.

In 2017, she was appointed to an Independent Panel of Experts convened by non-governmental human rights organizations to evaluate candidates to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, and to make recommendations for improving selection procedures to the Commission and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. Also, Prof. Grossman provided legal advice to Latin American states in cases before the International Court of Justice, and petitioners in cases before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.