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Classicist and Legal Historian

Arthur Eyffinger

Arthur Eyffinger is classicist and legal historian and former staff member of the international Court of Justice. He is the editor and translator of a range of historical, legal, poetical and political works of Hugo Grotius, a prominent founder of international law. He is co-founder of the Grotiana Foundation (1978).

List of books of Hugo de Groot

Dr. Eyffinger has published monographs on the Peace Palace (1988), the International Court of Justice (1996, the two Hague Peace Conferences (1999, 2007), the Carnegie Foundation (2004), Bertha von Suttner (2013), Tobias Asser (2 vols, 2019) and the Institut de droit international (2019). In 2025 Judicap will publish his major research project on the history of the ICJ: A World Court Trilogy.

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Biography

Arthur Eyffinger is classicist and legal historian and former staff member of the international Court of Justice. He is the editor and translator of a range of historical, legal, poetical and political works of Hugo Grotius, a prominent founder of international law. He is co-founder of the Grotiana Foundation (1978).

1967-1974

Leiden University: (Classical Philology; Latin and Greek).

1976-1981

University of Amsterdam: Post-Doctoral Humanist Studies and Neo-Latinism.

1981

University of Amsterdam Ph.D. Classical Philology.

1970-1985

Researcher Grotius Institute Netherlands Academy Arts and Sciences.

1975-1980

Co-Editor Series Poetry Hugo Grotius.

1978-2000

Co-Founder Grotiana Foundation, The Hague; Secretary-General Board (1978-200);
Executive Editor Journal Grotiana N.S. (1980-200).

1981-1985

Editor Series Poetry Hugo Grotius.

1984

Semester Cambridge University.

1986-1988

Deputy-Director Peace Palace Library, The Hague.

1987-1996

Secretary-General Dutch Library Association (NVB).

1988-2003

Head Librarian International Court of Justice; Curator Nuremberg Files.

1989-1994

Chairman Netherlands 17th C. Society; Board Member Literary and Historical Societies.

2003-2025

Founder/Director Research Centre Judicap. (The Hague)

2026 >.

Founder Firm Clémart (Germany)