Klara Polackova Van der Ploeg
Associate Professor of Law
PhD, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva
LLM, University of Michigan Law School
Email: [email protected]
Dr Klara Polackova Van der Ploeg’s scholarship explores structural questions of international law and global governance, focusing on the ways in which international law regulates collective nonstate entities to address global coordination problems. Her work has been published in the Business and Human Rights Journal, NYU Journal of International Law and Politics and other leading scholarly journals. She edited International Law and Time: Narratives and Techniques (Springer, 2022) and her monograph Regulating Collective Nonstate Entities in International Law: Rights and Obligations is forthcoming with Oxford University Press.
Dr. Van der Ploeg is dual-qualified (New York; Czech Republic) and practiced public international law with leading firms in London, United Kingdom, and Prague, Czech Republic. She served as Judicial Assistant to Judge Sir Christopher Greenwood at the International Court of Justice in the Hague. She is and has advised states and private parties on a wide range of public international law and dispute-resolution matters. At University of Nottingham, she previously led the Business, Trade and Human Rights Unit (Human Rights Law Centre).
(Headshot photo credit: Jan Krtitel Cerny)