Nienke Grossman

Biography

Nienke Grossman is an Associate Professor of Law and Deputy Director of the Center for International and Comparative Law at the University of Baltimore School of Law, where she teaches civil procedure, public international law topics, and conflict of laws. Her most recent scholarship, published in the American Journal of International Law and the Virginia Journal of International Law, examines the causes of and possible solutions for the paucity of women judges on international courts and tribunals. She is also co-editing a forthcoming book on Legitimacy and International Courts (Cambridge University Press). Professor Grossman 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 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. Prior to entering academia, Professor Grossman was a Research Fellow at Georgetown University Law Center, an Associate in Foley Hoag LLP’s international litigation practice, and a law clerk to United States Federal District Court Judge Gerald Bruce Lee, in the Eastern District of Virginia. She has served as a legal advisor or consultant to Latin American states in three cases before the International Court of Justice and has advised petitioners in cases before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. Professor Grossman was co-chair of the 900+ American Society of International Law’s International Courts and Tribunals Interest Group from 2014 to 2017, and she is currently serving on its Program Committee. In 2017, she served on a five-member Independent Panel of Experts convened by non-governmental human rights organizations to evaluate candidates to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, as well as formulate recommendations for improving selection procedures to the Commission and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. She is a Strategic Advisor to Gqual, a group dedicated to increasing the percentage of women on international law-making bodies. Professor Grossman is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, and has an LLM from Georgetown University Law Center.

Research Interest

Public International Law topics International Courts and Tribunals Conflict of Laws