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Jure Vidmar holds a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship at the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, where he is Research Fellow of St John’s College. Prior to taking up these positions, Jure was a Research Fellow at the Institute of European and Comparative Law, University of Oxford, and before that a post-doc at the Faculty of Law, University of Amsterdam. He has taught several legal subjects at the universities Oxford, Pretoria, Amsterdam, and Nottingham, including EU law, human rights, jurisprudence, and public international law. He also supervises postgraduate research projects. Jure has published widely in the fields of international law, human rights, and political and legal theory. He is the author of a monograph entitled “Democratic Statehood in International Law: The Emergence of New States in Post-Cold War Practice” (Oxford, Hart, 2013) and co-editor (with Erika de Wet) of “Hierarchy in International Law: The Place of Human Rights” (Oxford, OUP, 2012). He is also an editor of the Hague Yearbook of International Law. At Harvard, Jure worked on his Leverhulme-Trust-funded research on abusive governments in international law.